Senior Information Systems Development Manager – Permanent

The Senior Information Systems Development Manager will manage the delivery of all applications development , ensuring these applications are delivered to commercial standards in terms of quality, cost, time-scale and technology, whilst ensuring business needs are met. The purpose of the role include:

Job Responsibilities

• Ensure that IS initiatives supporting business goals are delivered in a timely and efficient manner
• Ensure the appropriate IS and systems capability is in place to allow the division deliver on its business goals
• Represent the IS function and contribute to the management of the business as required
• Define clear direction for IS development teams and identify future skill and capability needs
• Lead and motivate a highly skilled, experienced and diverse team of IS professionals to ensure succession planning, development and retention of resources

Experience Required

• IT leadership experience in an applications development environment
• Proven financial management skills, having managed an annual spend of 2M+
• Considerable previous experience working in Applications development environment
• Strong people leadership and management skills
• Proven experience working with Agile methodologies and frameworks, i.e. Scrum
• Experience of leading a multi-disciplinary team of application development professionals
• Ability to innovate and drive change in a controlled fashion keeping all stakeholders on-board
• Following up and up-to-date on best practice standards

Essential and Desirable Skills

• An ability to assess where a possible IS solution will require development on top of existing capabilities and the likely costs and time frame to complete
• Strong architecture skills
• Have good knowledge of the Group Pensions market
• Understanding customer needs and requirements and how to deliver an excellent customer experience
• The design and delivery of technology enabled programmes, through cross-functional projects

Educational Requirements

• An IT degree or equivalent along with proven experience in project and programme management

Working Hours & Benefits

• 40 Hour Week
• Performance Related Bonus – up to 20%
• Excellent Pension- 20%
• Car Allowance