Application Development Manager

Monarch are working with a large government organisation that are recruiting an Applications Development Manager on a permanent basis. The position can be remote and they have offices in London and Newcastle.  

Some of the responsibilities include:

• Lead the design, build, test and maintenance of the organisations application and web application systems, ensuring the delivered services meet business requirements and user needs.
• Deliver services that are automated, scalable, reliable and secure.
• Collaborate with partners across functions to ensure solutions adhere to architectural principles, industry best practice, and meet the desired outcomes of the customers.
• Manage and develop the Software Engineering capability by providing technical leadership for the in-house team and external suppliers.
• Contribute to business case development, articulating benefits and return on investment.  Ensure solutions delivered to time, cost and quality requirements.

• Demonstrable experience managing highly skilled Software Engineers working in a DevOps fashion with QA Engineers and DevOps Engineers including mentoring and driving best practice.
• Strong technical background in software engineering, with hands-on experience in DevOps tooling and techniques.
• Experience of building and optimising deployment pipelines and deployment strategies on popular CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
• In-depth knowledge and experience of Drupal 8 and LAMP stack.
• Experience of deploying and managing applications on a cloud platform such as Microsoft Azure.
• An appreciation of modern web application techniques, such as integrating modern JavaScript frameworks into applications