Technical Development Manager - Chester, United Kingdom - Worknest

Worknest

Verified Company

Chester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Technical Development Manager
Location Chester

Contract:
Full time, Permanent

£40,000 - £55,000 per annum (depending on experience)

Are you an experienced Technical Development Manager who's passionate about driving change and engaging delivery teams? Can you create motivated and high performing teams?

Having acquired multiple businesses in the past year, the WorkNest team is growing fast, so we're looking for a motivated, passionate and highly-experienced Technical Development Manager to join our Development Team.

Why your role matters
Technology is at the core of everything we do at WorkNest.

The Technical Development Manager will deliver a more agile, more efficient, more customer focused offering in our development of technologies.

You'll play a critical role in embedding Agile practices within our organisation, driving performance and delivery, and being accountable for creating motivated and high performing teams.

What you'll be doingReporting to the Chief Technology Officer, The Technical Development Manager will lead multiple Dev Teams who work across multiple SaaS products.

You'll lead the team, embed Agile best practices and develop a high-performing environment, therefore it's important that you are a confident and engaging line-manager.

The Technical Development Manager will lead the sprint planning process, working with productowners and business analysts to ensure plan and deliver features.

You'll use your deep knowledge of Agile best practices and methodologies to guide the dev teams and the wider organisation on how to use Scrum and Agile practices to continuously improve delivery, as well as removing obstacles and blockers to ensure teams areable to deliver releases at the end of each sprint.

Where you'll be working

This is a hybrid role with a minimum of two days per week in the Chester office, with the rest of the week remote, so we're looking for someone that is a comfortable commutable distance from Chester.

That way, you'll be able to work collaboratively with colleagueswhile also having some quieter time to focus on your workload without distraction.

There may also be the occasional need to travel to other WorkNest office around the country.

What's in it for you
£40,000 - £55,000 per annum (depending on experience) and an attractive company benefits package, including:

Health Cash plan
Life Assurance
Up to £15 per month fitness subsidence
Hybrid working arrangements
Auto Enrolment Pension contributions after 3 months service
Birthday Day off
VITO Days up to 2 days per holiday year paid volunteering
Free Will writing service
EAP & Wellbeing services

Who we are

WorkNest is a fast-growing professional support company specialising in delivering high-quality Employment Law, HR and Health & Safety advice supported by technology.

Our 500 colleagues (split over 11 locations) support over 40,000 clients and their 600,000 employees across UK and Ireland. Our clients range from small, 10-employee businesses to large organisations employing thousands of people. Some of our more well-knownclients include the Peter Jones' group of companies, Holland and Barratt and Oxford University.

We're known for our personalised, high-quality support and pragmatic, commercially-minded approach - as well as being a great place to work.

Up for the challenge?

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