A Software Development Manager experienced in building and leading full stack software development teams. You'll be an enthusiastic and adaptable technologist challenged to innovate, inspire and impact through the successful delivery of software across the technology platform.
Your Opportunity: As the pioneering Software Development Manager for bet365 in the US, you have a unique opportunity to build and lead our first full-stack software development teams from the ground up. Join us to lead this transformation and make your mark in the industry.
Team Building and Leadership: Craft high-performing technology teams structured to build and deliver software products, network, infrastructure and developer platforms at lightning speed. You’ll be relentless in your efforts to support and enable your team members to succeed and grow. Your leadership will foster a culture of support, speed, innovation, and excellence.
Play to your strengths: You and your team will be adaptable and responsive, your people will be T-shaped and ready to skill up to meet the needs of the business.
Strategic Collaboration: Work alongside Product Managers, Project Managers and Architects. Your role is pivotal within a wider department in ensuring software is delivered on time by coordinating and driving the development team's efforts.
Technical Oversight & Future Goals: Maintain a robust technical understanding of our systems and stay close to the solutions being developed. You'll be comfortable in front and backend technologies, on-prem and cloud infrastructure, Dev Ops and SRE, ensuring excellence in all we do. Our Technology Roadmap has specific goals for our Trading and Tools architecture and you'll play a leading role in the delivery of our ground breaking next generation platform.
Drive Efficiency: Utilize your leadership skills to enhance operational efficiency and promote best practices in software product development. You will set and achieve key results aligned with our objectives.
Empower Your Teams: Collaborate with our UK technology teams to on-board new members effectively. Through comprehensive training programs, you'll ensure team members are quickly informed, enabled, and empowered to succeed.
This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company’s hybrid working from home policy.
The salary range for this position is $145,000 - $180,000 annually.
Preferred Skills
- Driven to succeed with ability to lead technical solutions, people, delivery and strategy.
- Reflective and adaptable leader, with a focus on delivery and outcome.
- Strong team player with the ability to build an effective team of technical professionals.
- Ability to manage and make well balanced decisions in high pressure environments and situations.
- Ability to manage multiple streams of activity while shifting focus regularly.
- Well organized and skilled in effective time management, people management, coaching, conflict resolution, task allocation, delegation and risk management.
- Demonstrable experience using effective written and verbal communication in technical and non-technical subjects to both a technical and business audience.
- Ability to focus on the importance of the Business needs.
- Experience in working with front and backend technologies, micro services and cloud platforms.
Responsibilities
- Understanding the workload and work items distributed among the team as well as the larger works spanning the department.
- Ensuring the efforts and requirements of both resource and time are understood while assessing impacts, risks and costs in delivering the work within the team, building and maintaining capacity to deliver the Business needs.
- Committing to the deliverables of the team and the department for larger works.
- Understanding of the technical structure, the domain and architecture of the systems that the team are responsible for and how those systems are configured in the development and production estate.
- Working with stakeholders and other technical staff to ensure appropriate, fit for purpose and simple solutions are defined, planned and produced within the team.
- Ensuring there is capacity and capability to deliver the volume of work required of the Business.
- Managing the support and development responsibilities required of the team ensuring 24/7 support is available where required.
- Making decisions in time-bound situations ensuring the stability of the site and service to our customers is paramount to the decision.
- Taking ownership of issues and development deliverables in a managerial capacity seeing them through from start to finish.
- Ensuring successful and timely delivery of development works for the defined areas of the process you are responsible for.
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