Head of Development

An exciting permanent opportunity for a talented Head of Development/Engineering to join a highly successful and fast-growing Energy, Data and Technology company located in Surrey.

The Head of Development will provide leadership for the existing team as well as ensuring that systems meet the current and future needs of the business.

As part of a large transformation exercise, you will be responsible for running the team designing, developing and maintaining bespoke software applications and products. Managing and configuration of commercial off the shelf products to include finance systems, API management and CRM for example.

You will be a highly experienced and strategic thinking Head of Development that has gained experience within large transformations, systems and software integrations and be new product centric.

You will have a good understanding of where API’s are going, worked with 3rd party and ‘off the shelf’ suppliers and strategically driving the Development team forward.

There is a heavy emphasis on customer focus and ITIL Service Management across the business.  Covering all aspects of the development lifecycle from Waterfall to DevOps and Agile.

There are multiple existing and new projects across the business to demonstrate your experience and knowledge within.  You will be a strong people Manager and enjoy working collaboratively with other Heads of Departments and Team Managers to drive the business forward.

You will be based at Head Office in Surrey with the occasional need to visit other UK based offices to understand requirements and to build relationships.

Skills/experience/attributes:

• Demonstrable experience of people managing a Development/Engineering Team
• Experience of leading, strong people management and team integrations
• Experience and knowledge of working with a multitude of technologies and systems such as Salesforce, Mulesoft, C#/ASP.Net, SQL, Angular and Azure frameworks
• A strong customer focus and ITIL Service Management experience is very important
• Experience of all aspects of development methodologies from Waterfall, to Agile and DevOps
• A strategic mind with the ability to look at the bigger picture across multiple systems and software
• Sharing knowledge and interested in introducing new technologies to improve functions
• To be new product centric and have worked on a large development and systems/software transformation
• Experience of Operational Technology is highly desirable
• Experience of working within a regulated environment is desirable
• Strong communication skills, verbally, written and face to face – enjoy building internal and external relationships
• Identifying team strengths and skill sets.  Up-skilling and training as new technologies are introduced
• Motivational, confident, a good listener.  Ability to really drive this area of the business forward