Technical Development Manager
Job description
Our client is looking for a strong Development Manager to join our Overthrow Digital innovation team. We would like to see candidates who have a deep understanding of a broad set of technologies, coupled with the temperament and maturity befitting a client-facing team management role. The successful candidate for this role will be responsible for running delivery teams across multiple projects for one of our key client accounts in the finance sector.
The work will involve staffing and leading teams as well overall development roadmap ownership and management for the technical delivery at the client. Strong Agile skills, lengthy experience in managing small and large teams, a hands-on approach to team leadership, and strong accountability and presence are all key characteristics for this role. You will be full-time on a single client account and a Finance sector background is highly sought after in this role.
The job will be 3 days a week at our client's location in Fenchurch Street, London and 2 days a week remote.
Our client is an independent media group comprising of 5 specialist companies. We work with leading brands and businesses to deliver digital innovation and growth strategies which we then execute. Our business is about delivering results and developing long-term relations with great clients. We need you to help us nurture these relations with great interpersonal skills, creative flair, a straight-talking and proactive approach, and a sharp commercial focus. In return we allow you the freedom to drive innovation and change where it achieves these goals, we also give you a great environment, team, external partners, and support from our office management team and the Head of Delivery. You will be required to be involved in multiple projects as well as the project P&L and ensure the team uses our project management processes and tools.
Job requirements
* Development manager
* Proactive leadership style
* Strong technologist and tech architecture thinking
* Dev background, Business Control Processes (BCP)
* Ability to PM and keep things moving
* Support, Security, BAU, Governance
* Admin and timesheet management
* Ability to brainstorm, problem solve and think proactively