Software Development Manager

at  Pearson

JOB TITLE: Software Development Manager
JOB TYPE: Full time
DIVISON: Pearson Assessment Services
LOCATION: Rotherham, Manchester, or London
About Pearson: Our purpose at Pearson is to help everyone achieve their potential through learning. At the heart of this is a commitment to sustainable practices and meaningful, measurable outcomes. We are the world’s leading learning company. Our ability to help people learn is built on our ability to grow with and adapt to a constantly evolving market. Our 18,000+ employees around the world in 70 countries in which we operate are dedicated to doing just that: creating the digital-first, accessible and sustainable learning resources that prepare tens of millions of people each year for a lifetime of learning.
About Pearson Assessment Services: The Pearson Assessment Services (PAS) team provides assessment services to the UK and international assessment markets, supporting government education departments with project management, operational delivery and technical solutions. We are part of Pearson School Qualifications which supports the curriculum, qualifications, and assessments for students in the UK and globally, delivering exams to over 3.4 million students in over 80 countries annually and operating as a centre of excellence in qualifications and assessment.
About the job: The position is for a Development Manager to recruit and lead a PHP Laravel/VUE.js team working on large scale assessment delivery application-based systems in AWS. Currently we are in the middle of a large programme to build a new service to deliver a large assessment contract that will process millions of exams a year. The successful candidate will manage their own team of PHP Laravel/VUE.js developers located in multiple locations.
About you: We expect you to have significant experience as a full-stack developer. You’ll have strong leadership and management skills with experience of managing agile delivery teams that develop solutions at pace to provide real end user benefits. You will be a champion of Agile project delivery. You’ll also have experience of recruiting developers & building strong teams that deliver clean and efficient code.

KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Strong skills in PHP Laravel/VUE.js
• Gathering, evaluating, and prioritizing requests for product changes, enhancements, and new features
• Evaluating recent technologies that may be incorporated into future releases of the product.
• Participating in all product activities related to release and iteration planning, to ensure that the team has a clear understanding of the goals and can complete development on schedule.
• Tracking product roadmap and project issues to completion
• Providing technical guidance to the development team
• Working with senior leadership team to execute long term technology strategy
• Ensuring that the development team successfully delivers applications to production and provides post deployment support as required
• Applying best practices for chosen development platform
• Understand modern application architectures and how they can be applied, like Microservice / Service Oriented Architectures
• Ensuring that overall software architecture guidance in terms of best practice is followed by the team
• Recruitment of developers
• Managing training requirements for teams to ensure skills are kept up in line with Pearson’s technology strategy
• Mentor and coach team members to help them reach their full potential and advance their careers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive product development and delivery.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to manage complex projects.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to manage multiple projects during the same time effectively, and efficiently.
• Ability to identify and document business processes and requirements.

DESIRABLE SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• PHP Laravel/VUE.js
• Docker and containers
• Designing, developing, and deploying cloud applications
• Terraform
• Experience partnering with program management teams.
• Strong Agile Scrum project management experience
• 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams.
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Applying development methodologies like TDD, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code

Please refer the Job description for details