Development Manager Operations IT recruitment

As the Development Manager you will need to understand the immediate purpose and long term goals of this solution and design its framework. Working with the development team and analysts, you will then be responsible for owning and delivering this solution on time and to budget and then managing change to the solution going forward from a list of enhancements provided by the project managers.

You will need to ensure that the automated solution built is technically fit for purpose, supportable and maintainable.

You will need to work closely with the project managers on new requirements to ensure that the solutions they develop for the clients fit with the automated solution.

Key activities include:

- Understand the purpose of the automated metrics solution, designing the application to meet this
- Take responsibility for the build of the solution, communicating to all involved parties and ensuring a suitable level of quality is delivered on time
- Becoming the driving force for the technical delivery of the Application
- Take responsibility for the execution of the application in the production domain
- Manage changes to the solution once implemented

You are a hands-on development manager with proven experience in managing a team within an Investment Banking environment.

You must have:

- Proven experience of running a development team managing projects through the complete SDLC
- An appreciation of system architecture hence ensuring we build a robust, scalable and flexible end solution
- Proven track record of successful project delivery
- Experience managing offshore developers
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

You must be:

- Comfortable owning the end technical solution from conception to implementation
- Able to inspire and motivate others into producing quality solutions
- Good at planning and organising, having an excellent attention to detail.
- Able to implement a suitable test strategy around the application
- Experience in working with the AGILE methodology

You ideally would have:

- Strong knowledge of front to back trade flow/Operations processes
- Exposure and experience in support based projects