Senior Manager, Technology

As a Senior Manager in our technology team you’ll be responsible for providing thought leadership at a local and regional level about full-stack development, emerging technologies and languages. You’ll also help us develop capabilities, clients, and domain skills as well as taking an active role in business development, project supervision and day-to-day team management.

Your Skills & Experience:

• Experience of developing server-side services with Java and ideally one or more of Node.js or similar backend languages (C#/.NET omitted)

• Designing and creating REST APIs

• Experience of integration technologies like SOAP

• Strong understanding and experience of relational and NoSQL database design and implementation

• Experience building on container platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes Front-end skills

• Experience of using at least one of these JavaScript frameworks to create modern front-ends - React.js, Angular or Vue

• HTML, CSS, JavaScript (ES6) or TypeScript

• Webpack or Gulp

• A client-side Unit Testing framework e.g., Mocha or Jest Other technical skills

• API Management and Documentation (Swagger.io, I/O Docs)

• Experience with high scale, highly transactional, high performance, highly available systems and robust applications

• Knowledge of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration including DevOps pipeline to build and deliver high quality, scalable and secure solutions

• Implementations on and migration to Cloud services on at least one of the hyperscale Cloud platforms - Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, AWS

• Strong understanding and experience of quality engineering techniques including test-driven development (TDD), Behaviour-driven development (BDD), integration testing and performance testing.

Nice to have technical skills:

• Multi-threading programming concepts

• React Native

• Netty, AKKA, Vert.x, CEP engines

• GraphQL

• Redux or Mobx

• Kubernetes

• Multi-tenant architectures deployed in the cloud, Other skills/responsibilities:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

• Experience of working on large scale, complex, and distributed applications in an Agile environment

• Experience in a consulting or client-facing role

• Strategy development and planning skills for addressing emerging technologies

• Client management skills to represent the domain to clients and stakeholders and build and maintain relationships with vendors

• A Business development mind-set to help drive account development to create new business opportunities and help our sales teams by providing domain knowledge and technology content in RFP’s