Description
Head of Development - 24-Month Contract - London - Government Body (OUTSIDE IR35)
Looking for a Head of Development specialist is required to provide development leadership for the Crime Programme, in accordance with the GDS Agile methodology. This will include leading and being the Point of Contact for the Development Practice, providing guidance and standards across the programme.
Working on;
Development of efficient, proportionate and accessible digital services to enable access to justice via appropriate modern channelsDelivering a more efficient and improved service. For the first time, criminal case information will be kept together in one place.Key Essential skills and experience
Demonstrate your experience of building and leading development capabilities to support programme delivery in a multi-vendor landscape, within the last 5 yearsDemonstrate your experience of developing and owning Development process outputs, and presenting these through senior management meetings and governance boardstaking ownership and setting direction for delivery teams to comply with Development constraints and guidelines, within a wider programmedeveloping Software Development Standards documents within the last 5 years, specifically in an Agile, Java and Open Source deliveryled a large group of Developers to create a single integrated application within a large-scale Agile deliveryDemonstrate experience of managing branching and merging with a single code base from multiple release trains to ensure regular releases via a single release/deployment pipelineDemonstrate experience of implementations using Java, Microservices, CQRS, Event Sourcing and 3rd party interfaces/integrations within the last 5 yearsDemonstrate experience of developing the principles, standards, ways of working and standard operating procedures and roadmaps consistent with best practice, including using DDDDemonstrate experience in wider software development, eg CICD, DevOpsLawrence Harvey is acting as an Employment Business in regards to this position.
