Development Manager

Middlesbrough (Hybrid)

Do you want to help shape software that affects thousands of lives?

Who are we?

We are ranked as the UK’s #1 construction specific software player and our mission is simple; to provide market leading end-to-end software solutions to the construction and construction like industries across the entire build life cycle.

If you are looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. Our teams are based in the UK, Europe, and India, working on products that are used on a global scale. We have a clear and defined road map to deliver over the next 3 years, which is centred around a large-scale digital transformation as well as continuing our growth and expansion.

We embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it improves every aspect of our business.

Purpose

Our technology is used by thousands of companies and affects millions of lives. You are our driving force in leading the technical product teams. Your goal is to ensure that technical projects are completed accurately, within budget and on time, meet the business objectives and support the overall vision to transform the construction industry through the use of our technology. You’ll be a strong leader, working with technical architect’s product teams, ensuring that market-leading solutions are developed to high standards and Causeway retains a competitive edge in the market.

The Development Manager will report to the Development Director.

The key areas of responsibility for a Development Manager include:

• Leadership and people management
• Technical Innovation
• Technical Delivery

Key Responsibilities

People Leadership and Management:

• Lead by example, exuding positive energy and enthusiasm, inspiring others, encouraging teamwork and co-operation and ensuring that team members live and breathe the company vision and values at all times.
• Provide technical leadership and manage the teams so that all aspects of software development meet the highest standards to meet or exceed customer expectations in terms of functionality, quality, technology, and overall customer experience.
• Responsible for the overall assessment, management, and development of product development teams and for supporting the achievement of product, quality, and financial objectives.
• Manage departmental performance standards without compromising on service or quality, ensuring the achievement of maximum profitability and growth in line with the company vision.
• Evaluate, coach, and develop team members to build confidence and capability and operate to the highest standards.
• Work with the CTO and People team to ensure that performance is managed, feedback is provided and that team members have the appropriate skills to achieve their objectives.
• Responsible for assessing training needs and ensuring that the relevant level of training, coaching or knowledge sharing is available to all team members, aiming to improve both individual and organisational effectiveness.
• Ensure that company processes, standards and policies are implemented consistently and that fairness, reasonable standards in the treatment of people, equal opportunities and work-life balance are maintained to create a high-performing work environment and retain team members.

Technical Innovation:

• Take responsibility for own personal development, ensuring that knowledge and skills are up to date and maintained, including emerging trends that may be relevant for solutions being developed.
• Take responsibility for creating an environment of continuous learning and development for the teams, ensuring that the knowledge and skills of the team are up to date and maintained and that Causeway employs high-quality software engineers.
• Ensure that the Development teams are building market leading products and solutions that use the latest technologies and are aligned with the company vision. You will demonstrate the ability, as a strategic leader, to ‘make the vision happen’.
• Continuously strive for innovative solutions and make suggestions for improvements that will provide a benefit to the business in terms of improved efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity.
• Be willing to listen to and support team members with professional problems, devoting time to impart expertise, infusing confidence, and expressing positive expectations.

Technical Delivery:

• Manage the product delivery and ensure that the development teams are building products that meet the requirements, are scalable and easily maintained and supported.
• Ensure that technical products are developed accurately, based on best practice standards, within budget and on time and support the business objectives.
• Build and manage high-quality teams, approve work estimates, establish budgets and communicate with the product owners and scrum master’s to evaluate requirements and progress.
• Develop a good understanding of the business needs to maximise opportunities.
• Carry out research and cost-benefit analysis and provide advice to manage business needs.
• Identify, engage and interact with decision-makers at a senior level to understand new and emerging business opportunities and gather requirements.
• Work with the security team to ensure that data security standards are met at all times.
• Monitor and track progress, ensuring careful planning, consistent implementation and that quality standards are met.
• Work with the senior leadership team to agree on prioritisation and performance KPIs and other metrics and ensure that they are consistently met.
• Ensure that rigorous project management is implemented so that scope, change, time, quality, cost and risk are tightly controlled, and proactive and timely updates to progress are made in Jira so that the business has access to timely and accurate performance information.
• Work with Development teams to ensure that their technical implementation is technically sound, defect rates are minimised and products are inexpensive to maintain and support.

Essential Skills:

• Previous experience in managing multiple agile teams with responsibilities for developing and implementing the product strategy.
• Experience in providing technical leadership to ensure that products and services are delivered in line with the architectural framework.
• Experience in managing teams, and delivering high transaction multi-tenanted native cloud applications.
• Experience in delivering projects that transform monolithic applications into a microservices architecture.
• Experience in coaching Scrum Master / Team leaders to enable them to optimise team performance while driving quality.
• Must have been a Scrum Master and have in-depth experience in Agile methodologies.
• Experience in embedding Scrum into teams with little agile experience.
• Hands-on development experience with the ability to embed best practices into the teams.
• You will be articulate, with excellent communication skills and the ability to listen and provide answers.
• You will be a passionate individual who has the ability to change others way of thinking.
• You will be able to inspire and motivate teams towards the company vision, values and goals.
• You will be inspired by solving problems and have the ability to gather and assimilate information.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills to successfully co-ordinate a high number of activities, with excellent time management, prioritisation and the ability to remain calm and objective under pressure.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Tenacious, highly energised, passionate and committed, determined to achieve amazing results and make an impact, delivering to high standards and delighting customers
• Degree level or equivalent education preferred in a relevant subject such as computer sciences, computer engineering, information management systems, software development or business information systems etc.

Desirable skills

• Experience working in supply chain, financial or construction-related technology would be advantageous.
• Previous experience in enterprise IT and integration experience useful.
• Experience of CI/CD.

Competencies

Security - Works closely with relevant teams to ensure security protocols are followed.

Programming/Software Development - Maintains a solid understanding of programming languages, software architecture and development methods. Provides technical guidance, makes informed decisions about the technology choices, and effectively communicates this with the teams.

Design – Drives adoption of and adherence to relevant policies, standards, strategies, and architectures.

Documentation – Oversees content development activities, ensuring that adequate procedures, standards, tools and resources are in place and implemented to required standards.

Incident, Change and Release Management – Analyses causes of incidents and contributes to service improvement. Analyses metrics and reports on the performance of the incident management process. Leads the assessment and development governing change management.

Technology / Technical Vision – Displays clear technical confidence and understanding. Aligns new emerging and existing technology to ensure the Development teams are building products and solutions that use the latest technologies and are aligned with the company vision. Monitors external developments to gather intelligence on emerging technologies.

Financial Management - Demonstrates financial awareness to ensure deliverables are achieved in line with agreed budgets. Understands financial costs per sprint and value delivered. Supports overall financial objectives.

Business Impact - Understands the business's goals to successfully align technology projects with strategic objectives.

Communication and Collaboration - Builds effective relationships with Engineering stakeholders, leads by example and actively liaises with others to share ideas, technology and agreed cross-team deliverables.

Leadership - Provides clear directions and priorities to teams. Delegates responsibility to individuals to make them accountable for successful execution. Encourages and values teams' input.

What you get from us:

If you're looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. We believe everyone at Causeway has a vital role to play in our success. Causeway is fuelled by curiosity and is a place for people who beam with positivity and burn with ambition.

Our team is everything, so we’ll take good care of you. In fact, we give well-being the same priority as our other business goals. We’re strong advocates of work-life balance, offering hybrid working alongside the opportunity to work from modern, collaborative offices.

Our Values

We are United. As part of a team, we’re better together.

We are Agile. Be the change, we’re on a journey.

We are Trusted. Do the right thing, we own this.

We are Driven. Get stuck in, we make it happen.

Benefits

As a leader in employee engagement and people management, there are fantastic benefits and rewards at Causeway. We strive, year on year, to achieve recognition as an award-winning workplace that our employees love. We’ve selected just a few of the many benefits available below to show you how we take care of our Causeway stars.

• 25 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing with length of service.
• 4% matched pension.
• Income protection and life assurance.
• Access to our award-winning benefits platform.
• We take mental health seriously and have a dedicated EAP available 24/7.
• £100 allowance towards a fitness club.
• Dell discounts.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Paid study leave + volunteering days.
• Car Scheme.

Like all responsible companies Causeway is aware of the need to recognise the importance of protecting our environment and addressing the climate emergency. Causeway is a carbon neutral company and we offset our calculated carbon footprint. However, we recognise that offsetting is not a permanent solution, so we set environmental objectives to reduce our footprint year-on-year.