Software Engineering Lead/Manager Hands on Development

Software Engineering Lead with experience of leading/mentoring a team and is strong technically is required to join our ICIS brand in our Sutton, Greater London office. This is a great opportunity to join our brand who use cutting edge technologies. We are a FTSE 15 company and are part of the RELX group. Key Responsibilities will be: - Successfully lead large onshore and offshore resources in solving complex business needs. - Perform reviews to ensure enterprise and architectural standards and processes are followed. - Complete management responsibilities to include performance management, hiring and coaching of staff, and resource planning. - Coordinate the production of advanced complex software and serve as a senior source of expertise. - Manage system and user acceptance testing cycles to ensure accurate and quality business solutions. - Lead the development of technical standards, and perform reviews to ensure enterprise and architectural standards and processes are followed. - Serve as a primary technical point of contact for external technology resources. - Recommend technical strategy and direction across functional area. - Participate in development and evolution of architecture. - Provide design input across a product. - Work directly with customers and end users. - Proven knowledge and experience in project planning and management tools to manage project progress, budget, and scope. - Experience leading multiple development teams. - Experience in code reviews and development approaches. - Expertise in industry best practices in offshore partnership development. - Proven ability to lead test-driven development and maintenance. - Industrywide or broad companywide technical knowledge. - Track record of developing solutions to be deployed in cloud environments, preferably AWS. Required Skills Essential: - Excellent technical leadership, communication and presentation skills. - Agile Software Development, Scrum. - Ability to engage and liaise with stakeholders across all functions. - Implementation, integration and management of complex solutions (distributed, multi-platform, multi-technology). - Excellent problem-solving ability including leading teams to identify, research and coordinate resources to diagnose and troubleshoot complex issues. - Advanced organization/project planning, time management, and change management skills across multiple functional groups and departments, and advanced delegation skills involving prioritizing and reprioritizing projects and managing projects of various size and complexity. - Strong experience of .NET. - Experience of on-premise, virtualisation and cloud based infrastructure using Amazon Web Services, AZURE and ideally .NET Core. - Strong skills in setting, communicating, implementing, and achieving business objectives and goals through the direct management of others. So who are RBI and ICIS? Reed Business Information (RBI) is a billion dollar company providing information, analytics and data to business professionals worldwide. Our strong global products and services hold market-leading positions across a wide range of industry sectors including banking, petrochemicals and aviation where we help customers make key strategic decisions every day. RBI is part of the FTSE100 RELX Group plc, a world-leading provider of information solutions for professional customers across industries. RELX has just been placed in the Forbes Top-60 Employers. As one of the largest brands within RBI and with a global staff of more than 800, ICIS is the world’s largest petrochemical market information provider and has a fast growing energy information business. ICIS provides prices, news, analysis, insight and consultancy. How important is technology to ICIS? Technology is a central part of the ICIS business. The technology team provides the online products and systems to collect and distribute ICIS data to our global audience. We also create innovative sources of new insight – for example modelling of power demands, processing of European gas flows or tracking/predicting in real-time worldwide ship movements. We use modern technologies, work almost exclusively in the cloud and focus on agile development approaches. What’s it like to work here? Outstanding - you’ve probably already got a feel for what we do and the technology we’re involved with but what’s really stands us out from the crowd is our culture. We’re an agile, dynamic and forward thinking organisation who understands the importance of looking after our staff. We pride ourselves on delivering high-quality products, providing our employees with interesting challenges for their personal and career development whilst also striking the right balance between work and family life. And what about your career? Career development is a big thing for us and we take our PDP (personal development plan) process very seriously; we want you to learn and progress quickly in the direction you want to go and we will provide you with the training and support to achieve that at the right pace. The great thing about us career-wise is that we’re a company made up of leading online businesses so you can develop in three dimensions, vertically through the business, across different brands, and across different functions (if you fancy a change). We’re also an increasingly international business and are often able to offer overseas opportunities either as secondments or on a permanent basis. RBI are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Women in technology: RBI is very supportive of women in Technology and has been a founding signature for the Tech Talent Charter. Currently 24% of our Technology workforce are women which is much higher than the UK average of 17%. We have the following initiatives in place to support women in technology: • Mentoring scheme for women in technology • Women’s network forum • Regularly run events for schools girl about careers in technology to inspire the next generation of girls in tech. RBI proudly support the Tech Talent Charter. Click on the link to find out more. http://www.techtalentcharter.co.uk/ This job was originally posted as www.cwjobs.co.uk/job/89751203