Head of Applications and Development

Rate - £850 (a day)

Duration - 3 months (Initially)

Location - London (Hybrid)

IR35 - INSIDE (Must be via an Umbrella Company)

As our Head of Applications & Development, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our software landscape and systems strategy. Your expertise will assist in delivering our digital transformation programme, ensuring reliable and effective technology solutions.

You're accountable for:

• Lead our Application & Development teams:
• Software development and supporting teams for ERP & Case Management
• Technical Application support & Development
• IA/ML
• Knowledge Management
• Analysing business requirements and collaborating with partnership organisations to recommend software solutions, and evolving capabilities that will deliver organisational goals.
• Owning & delivering the demand, development cycle for our case management systems, focusing on performance and quality
• Overseeing the performance of our Application Ecosystem, working with Transformation and business partners to develop a transparent and clear technical roadmap, underpinned by business benefits
• Developing technical controls and engagement structures for development cycles, Ensuring that projects adhere to design specifications, implementation requirements, and quality standards.
• Assist in coordination and planning for our cross functional engineering resources, including Product Discovery, Delivery, QA, and DevOps
• Managing external support partners, system specialists, Testing teams, and develop partnerships: providing guidance, mentorship, and performance evaluation.
• Develop & communicate a plan to optimise and the use of our Cloud system landscape
• Collaborate with other leaders within Casework Product and Supporting systems to grow and evolve our engineering Governance, tools, and processes
• Foster a culture of best practices in all aspects of software engineering including delivery of benefits, development costs, potential revenue, and associated risks
• Demonstrate an unwavering commitment to the highest quality in delivery of system change and test
• Creating and managing budgets to ensure projects and systems stay within financial parameters
• Own our software risk management process and remediation plans
• Working with our Security teams ensure we minimise risk, maturing Cyber and Information Governance, system controls

Your experience includes:

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or a related field is typically required.
• 5 years + track record of building and managing successful software delivery teams, particularly in Azure Dynamics.
• Demonstrated ability to create application development strategies founded on agile principles, and effectively execute initiatives to mature and develop teams in adoption
• 5+ years of experience in enterprise systems integration and best practices in the context of cloud platforms application development, with Expert Proficiency in Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Demonstrable experience working with enterprise architecture and interface design, proven success in translating architectural design into complex software solutions
• Experience in managing programmes to deliver machine learning and business process automation
• Experience in working within the Finance & Legal sectors preferred
• Excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen customer focus, capable of presenting technical solutions to customer, investors and other stakeholders.