Head of Software Engineering

• Leading the technical delivery of the software engineering function and teams. 
• Agreeing the functional roadmap alongside change partners within the business. 
• Prioritising demand to improve business value, ensuring efficiency and value is being realised.
• Managing contract, outsource and FTE development resource.
• Producing and communicating resource plans to ensure optimal mix.
• Full budget control.
• Governing the full production process, ensuring continuous deployment and delivery practices are embedded. 
• Working with the architecture team to help shape designs, providing oversight across the development teams to realise solutions, ensuring a consistent and robust architecture is implemented and adhered to.

• Experience of leading and implementing cross functional change for People, Process and Technology
• Experienced working with modern technology including building application using C#, .Net Core, SQL, Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions, Azure App Services and integrating with CRM based solutions, using plugins where appropriate
• Solution driven, highly motivated and with a software engineering background.
  
• A natural leader, able to translate complex technical concepts into easy to understand language for stakeholders and internal teams.
  
• Ability to drive the vision, design, strategy, and implementation of integrated web systems in order to support the Partnership.
• Ability to multi-task and stay organised in a dynamic work environment
  
• Credible, confident and articulate, with outstanding interpersonal skills, excellent communication and presentation skills and the gravitas to deliver ideas clearly and concisely to internal and external stakeholders at all levels of seniority
  
• Natural leadership skills with the confidence to build, develop and mentor development teams
  
• Ambitious in nature and looking to continue your career development
  
• Personable and approachable, with an enthusiastic and motivational nature.

We're a dynamic, fast-paced and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We're investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential.

The Openwork Partnership values and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.

On top of offering a modern workplace with bags of development opportunities, we also offer a highly attractive benefits package to reward you for your hard work. This includes a competitive base salary, car allowance, an industry-leading annual bonus, enhanced pension, critical illness cover, income protection and a range of other flexible benefits.