Group IT Solutions and Development Director - Caldecotte, United Kingdom - Connells Group HQ

Connells Group HQ

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Caldecotte, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Connells Group is the leading UK estate agency and property services group, with over 80 different brands and 1,250 branches UK-wide.

Alongside a significant high street estate agency presence, it has a strong financial services business operation, offeringall services to support sales, purchases, lettings, mortgages, building surveys & valuations, conveyancing, auctions and more.

The Group IT Solutions & Development Director role reports directly into the Group CTO and is part of the IT leadership team.

The role is both strategic in shaping technology strategies, and technical, by leading a significant internal engineering functionas well as managing the technical relationship of many suppliers.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities

Development of the IT systems strategy covering technical roadmaps to deliver effective solutions.
Continuous development of the technology landscape with a focus on systems and solutions, providing a better experience for our colleague and customers.
Continuous improvement of delivery methods & software engineering to reduce the timeline to deliver technology change with an ongoing aim to improve the quality of change implemented.
Maintain a strong awareness of technology trends, driving innovation opportunities to deliver future growth and operational efficiencies
Management of a complex portfolios of technology change across all business areas.
Implementation of best practice engineering processes.
Maintaining good financial control of the department, leveraging economies of scale by ensuring we have fewer more strategic partners and reducing unnecessary expenditure.

Experience and Qualifications

Preferably educated to graduate level
Experience of working within organisations with multiple separate subsidiaries and brands beneath it, ideally with a significant high street presence
Built, managed and grown internal multidisciplined engineering teams
Driving force who leads and encourages teams to meet and exceed goals and targetsPossess a strong architecture understanding and managed teams of architects, developers and testers
Understanding of GDPR principles including data retention and anonymisation procedures & policies
Background in operating within an IT leadership team, having strong leadership, influence and communications skills and working collaboratively with other members of the ITLT
Helped drive excellence in the software development lifecycle
Experience of "big data" including aligning and integrating internal and third party datasets together and making use of this for reporting and BI purposes
Experience and knowledge of Microsoft.

NET and Azure development technologies, software development lifecycles, IT process and delivery methods

Ensure products are delivered to business customers with high quality and reliability
Must be able to work collaboratively with a range of business leaders across the organisation, and with external stakeholders at a similar technical level
Evidence of adaptability and flexibility to changing business demands
Background of leadership responsibilities including risk management and departmental budget responsibility