ABOUT US

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,416 employees and over 31,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning. As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.
St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response & Nighttime Economy) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.
This is an exciting time of transformation with an opportunity to lead and mature the charity’s data maturity by leading a new data strategy.

JOB SUMMARY

The postholder is responsible for leading the development of high-quality software and managing and supporting our technology platforms and systems as part of the DevOps team. Working within to multifunctional project teams they will develop scalable solutions adhering to best practice design principles, coding standards and ensure exceptional service and solution delivery. With exposure across the full development lifecycle, they work on a variety of projects and programmes. They provide technical leadership and line management to support the engineers across the team. The post-holder works to challenging deadlines; managing engineers working on greenfield and brownfield projects as well as managing our support queues.

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Working closely with the Head of DevOps to Lead and line manage, coach and support the engineers reportng to you
• Work to a DevOps methodology to optimise squad teams in close partnership with the Product Owners
• Provide technical design input and leadership for new solutions or changes to existing systems
• Lead technical development on key projects, working alongside existing team members and providing
• Lead the production of well designed, testable, efficient code / low-code applications
• Ensure documentation is completed to an appropriate level
• Contribute towards development estimates for future releases
• Coordinate the service delivery of platform incidents, requests, problems and changes to meet SLAs including P1 incidents
• Seek out and implement opportunities for automation & innovation in the team helping embrace new tech such as Ai
  Find out more about us, including our new Ask Me campaign, at www.sja.org.uk
  For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply
  We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.