System Development Manager (Web)

at  Benefact Group

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Duration: Permanent
Location: Gloucester
Job Ref: 202250

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential skills:

• Manage the technical delivery of web development team and help shape web platform and content management strategy and technical roadmaps
• Act as scrum master, align the agile practices, act as agile coach to the team and ensure alignment to Group Technology
• Line management of front-end web developers and .NET developers, accountable for recruitment, development and assessment of team members including any augmented resources
• Develop and maintain web development coding standards, design patterns and best practices
• Ensure effective collaboration across teams and alignment to existing SDLC and operational practices
• Accountable for the effective delivery of change ensuring adherence to quality standards and expectations of business and operational teams, as defined by SLAs and established delivery KPIs
• Positive influence on the team to establish and promote the right culture and behaviours
• Able to communicate effectively verbally and in writing with technical staff, with operational business staff and management, external suppliers and customers

Desirable skills:

• Extensive background in web development, user interface design and website management using a Content Management Systems
• Experience in User Experience (UX) or Customer Experience (CX) or User Centred Design (UCD)
• Experience of single page application development concepts, using technologies like Vue.js, Angular, React, Blazor
• Experience of .NET framework and engineering practices to enable the web platform development team
• Experience of cloud-native application development, particularly using SaaS or PaaS options, using deployment concepts like blue-green deployment
• Experience of technical team management and delivery management, including mentoring and coaching of junior members
• Experience of leading agile team, preferable scrum master certified or Kanban practitioner
• Experience with our Content Management System, Tridion or similar (Strapi, Sitecore, Umbraco) and how to leverage the benefit for business applications.
• Confident communicator, with ability to converse and translate between technical and non-technical teams and create quality written documentation
• Understanding of software design and software architecture principles, including SOLID principles and design patterns

ABOUT US

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and are currently the UK’s 3rd largest corporate donor, having given away £200 million since 2016. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.
We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.
At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.
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Benefact Group, are looking for a System Development Manager to join our Gloucester office.
The right candidate will manage the web platform, overseeing the technical development of hosted Benefact websites, web UI components and CMS components. This extends to continuous improvement of existing websites and creation of new websites, working with design agencies and content editors to ensure deliverables meet business needs. To act as scrum master and agile coach to the team, line manager to web developers and technical lead for the team ensuring that modern practices and evolving standards are adopted.
We are regularly updating our tools and technologies to the latest versions and using them to develop business critical solutions alongside Dynamics and .NET development and engineering. The target hosting environment is Microsoft Azure.
You will have an understanding of the DevOps lifecycle and how with a focus on automation, CICD practices we will release to production, reliable applications frequently inline with Scrum time-boxes.
You will provide mentoring to the team of Developers and Engineers. We have a strong focus on engineering excellence and agile ways of working.
You will have the benefit of using the latest hardware, and receiving MSDN and Pluralsight subscriptions to support your ongoing professional development.
It’s not all about the technology (though we do enjoy it) - it is all about the customer and collaborating with our co-workers to deliver something of enduring and sustainable value.
We’d like you to help us to do that.