Head of Software Development

☞ Barnett Waddingham

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Update day: 01-06-2024

Location: Amersham South East

Category: Architecture / Interior Design Social Work / Community Services

Industry: Finance

Job type: Full-time, Permanent

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Overview:
Barnett Waddingham is an independent firm, 100% owned by our Partners and renowned for our positive, supportive, and collaborative culture, where everyone within the BW team shares our values and our commitment to ensuring the highest levels of trust, integrity and quality.

Over the course of the next 3-5 years as part of our growth plans we have committed to, and are investing in, major plans to further enhance many aspects of our business, including: the client-facing heartland of our existing success, diversification into new products and propositions for clients, enhancing our sustainability, and further improving our people and IT capabilities. Technology plays a major role in enabling all of these areas, and is universally viewed as critical to our continued future success.
Responsibilities:
Within this context the Head of Software Development is a leadership role, accountable for the successful delivery of software development products within Barnett Waddingham. Given the strategic importance of this role, it reports directly to and works closely with the Head of IT.

The Head of Software Development will work with the Software Development Leads and Software Delivery Manager to manage our software development teams and with Product Owners to create product roadmaps in alignment with our business and technology strategy.

We are actively seeking an experienced Software Development Leader with a significant track record of demonstrable success to supplement our internal teams with additive skills, experiences, perspectives, and approaches.
Qualifications:
You will have the opportunity to shape and enhance this role as required to meet the needs of our clients and business. Working alongside the Head of IT and with our internal customers and IT teams you will have responsibility for leadership of software product development; designing & delivering firm wide technology and digital strategies; business consultancy, embedding a best practice change delivery model working with senior stakeholders, management of the software development teams and advising on & building a capability of technology architecture. You will also be responsible for prioritisation and resourcing in collaboration with Product Owners.

You will demonstrate a track record of senior IT leadership and management, have extensive experience of the agile software development cycle along with software development methodologies and project management principles. You will also have an understanding of systems architecture and how to design systems for scalability and interoperability. A good working knowledge of UK pensions, and employee benefits is desirable, but not essential.

You will have significant experience and a demonstrable successful track record of achieving improved business, client, and colleague outcomes through design and delivery of technology solutions. You will also have experience leading teams working in both Agile and traditional software development environments with responsibility for the performance and line-management of highly skilled, technical individuals.
What’s in it for you?:

Core & Flexible Benefits:
  • Competitive discretionary annual bonus
  • Core benefits paid for by BW including life assurance, group income protection, private medical cover and 25 days holiday per year with holiday trading
  • A generous pension scheme where we contribute 8% of your salary from day one of your employment
  • Employee Assistance Programme to support you and your family through any concerns or challenges you may experience
  • A comprehensive range of voluntary benefits to suit your life stage and lifestyle including a tech scheme, cycle to work scheme, dental cover, healthcare cash plan, health assessments, critical illness cover, extension of private medical cover or life assurance to family members, gym membership, travel insurance and a broad range of discounts at hundreds of retailers including supermarkets, fitness centres, travel and leisure companies
  • Fresh fruit, hot and cold drinks provided free of charge in all of our offices
Giving Something Back:
  • 1 paid volunteering day per year as a commitment to our Corporate Social Investment
  • Support your favourite charity with the "Give as You Earn" option
  • Match-funding for individuals raising money for a recognised charity
  • Our corporate social investment programme is an integral part of what we do and is focused on ensuring that our overall impact is a positive one. We recognise that we have an impact that goes beyond our core activities.
Values: our values are PRINCIPLED, RESPECT, QUALITY AND PARTNERSHIP - they are important to us and we want them to be important to you as well.

Wellbeing: employee wellbeing has always been important to us and our approach is to create an environment where individuals will be engaged at work, successful in what they do and able to achieve their full potential, benefiting both their self and the business. BW offer a great range of employee benefits as we believe it’s important individuals are supported in making choices which are flexible enough to meet their needs and help support their wellness.

Diversity: we are committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce where people from all backgrounds, beliefs and perspectives can thrive, feel welcome and develop to their full potential. Our recruitment processes are designed to be fair and consistent and enable candidates to compete on a level playing field. We r ecognise that diversity today means more than race and gender. This is why we created an environment where a variety of different voices are encouraged and heard through our employee network groups. The groups work together to build an inclusive and diverse place for us all to work. We have attained the Disability Confident Committed status and are actively working towards the next level, Disability Confident Employer.

Your progression:we offer career progression opportunities and a focus on training and professional development to provide you with the tools and skills to thrive. We also offer study support for relevant professional or skills qualifications.

Other activities: we have clubs, sporting events, social, cultural and belief groups across our offices if you’d like to join in and meet like-minded people.

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Deadline: 16-07-2024

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