Job Description
Are you a successful leader with a proven background in agile methodology and a passion for technology and innovation?
We have a fantastic opportunity to lead the continued expansion and development of our market-leading portfolio of software products.
Reporting directly to the CTO, this role will head up and direct the delivery of all the development programmes at MHR across a large (120+ engineers both inhouse and outsourced) multi-disciplined engineering team.
We are looking for someone from a strong technical background with excellent communication skills, who has a thorough understanding and experience of leading the delivery of high-level software solutions across multi-disciplined development teams within agile environments. A passionate and committed leader, you will bring your experience and enthusiasm to drive change and innovation across the team.
You will be responsible for promoting a strong and high performing agile development culture, working closely with the Product Design team and other key stakeholders to ensure the successful, on time release of high-quality and secure software solutions to our customers.
In return the role will be highly rewarding, with an excellent supporting package and an opportunity to work with great people as we shape the next generation of leading HR and Payroll software:
Role Responsibilities
- Develop and communicate a technology strategy to Inspire, motivate digital and technical staff
- Ensure successful, on time release of high-quality and secure Software solutions
- Drive the engineering culture across multiple teams
- Develop working and engineering in-line with current trends and techniques in order to achieve faster outcomes and efficiency
- Drive DevOps capability toward continuous delivery
- Ensure effective recruitment, retention and development of staff
- Work with the CTO and Product Design to plan delivery strategy and forecast capacity
- Encourage and promote collaborative approach across teams and departments
- Champion and Promote Agile coaching and delivery
- Manage relationship with delivery partners
- Supports and elevates the strategy set forth by CTO and key stake holders making appropriate software, and technology recommendations.
- Consistently looks across all phases of the development life cycle for opportunities to drive efficiency, through Automation and continual improvement.
- Receives, interprets, transmits and "evangelizes" exceptionally complex information requiring extensive explanation or interpretation to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Participate in development, design, and implementation of new technologies including: software, hardware and SAAS applications.
- Control of Software budget in accordance with the agreed Business Plan.
- Effective and timely resolution of standard software defects in accordance with Support Contract terms and SLA's
- Delivery of new and statutory software functionality on time and budget to agreed specifications and quality levels
Key Skills
- Background in Technology, focussed on Development, Software Engineering or Architecture
- Leadership Skills
- Agile Delivery
- Technical and Commercial Acumen
- Ability to problem solve and evaluate risk
- Team building, coaching, mentoring and motivating
- Ability to extract and clearly present key risks and issues
- Good time management, prioritisation and organisational skills
About us
- MHR offers HR, Payroll and Analytical expertise to help our customers work smarter. Our strength is in the development of our own technology based upon the market and future trends to ensure our customers have solutions that fit their needs today and grow with them in the future.
- Today we're powered by a world-class team of over 700 people working with us across four products, a multitude of services and three continents. We're driven by organic growth, a significant achievement in our industry. We pride ourselves on being a financially independent family-owned company on a journey to completely transform the world of work for organisations of all shapes and sizes. We have over 1,000 customers, serving organisations across the public, private and non-profit sectors.
- Our mission is to constantly strive to understand and improve the world of work, technology and people, enabling us to create market-leading platforms and services and we'll need creative individuals like you to help continue this success.
Our Rewards
- We contribute to a full company pension scheme to help you plan for your future.
- We offer life assurance (x4 salary, with option to increase up to x8 salary).
- An employee assistance programme is included.
- Our sites all come with a subsidised restaurant and cafe on-site, with delicious new meals on offer from our chefs each day.
- We offer Vodafone discounts, making it cheaper and easier to catch up with your favourite people.
- Personal development plays a big part in helping our people to reach their potential; therefore we offer over 60 internal training courses and support our people with external qualifications.
Why us?
- What makes MHR a great place to work, isn't novelties or gimmicky job titles, it's our down to earth approach working with people who want to do a job they're proud of.
- We invest for the long term, providing fantastic careers for our people and the best software and services to meet the needs of our customers now and in the future.
- With over 35 years' experience in the industry, our ethos has been to keep investing and moving forward with the changing world of work, and we can only do that by supporting our people. We've invested £20 million in a huge building expansion project to provide the best environment for our people, to give them the space they need to excel and grow. And by investing 20% of our turnover into our own research and development, our people shape the future of our products and services to support changing requirements on both a local and global scale.
Be part of something special, become part of the MHR family.
