Job Description

Job title : Software Engineering Manager

Reports To: Head of Applications

RWS Business Area wording:

RWS Holdings plc is a unique world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content and intellectual property services. Through content transformation and multilingual data analysis, our unique combination of technology and cultural expertise helps our clients to grow by ensuring they are understood anywhere, in any language. Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. By combining cultural understanding, client understanding and technical understanding, our services and technology assist our clients to acquire and retain customers, deliver engaging user experiences, maintain compliance and gain actionable insights into their data and content. Our clients include 88 of the globe\'s top 100 brands, the top 20 pharmaceutical companies and 19 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific and North and South America. We work in the automotive, chemical, financial, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from 80+offices across five continents.

Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L). For further information, please visit: www.rws.com

About The Role:

You will lead the technical team supporting the RWS journey to become a digital-first organization where our customers can interact to consume the services provided by various business units. The digital experiences should be consistent across the group and built using consistent technologies and a composable architecture with a secure-first development approach. You will ensure maximum reusability of components across the digital portals by building a core digital platform.

Whilst this is not primarily a hands-on role, you will have come from either a technical software development or architectural background as you will be leading a team of technical professionals from different disciplines, including; architecture, software development, quality assurance, user experience and DevOps. You will initially be involved with building a team for success. Given the global nature of the RWS delivery model, you will be comfortable leading teams spread across different geographic locations and time zones. Both you and the team should have a mindset focused on agility, innovation and being customer centric.

This role will involve delivering in an environment of competing priorities across the digital portals owned and managed by different business units so your ability to allocate resources ensuring the best utilization of the right resource at the right time will be crucial.

A strong understanding of digital development principles is key to the success of this role and you will be a key member in shaping and maturing the digital experience. Innovation will be a key requirement to the RWS digital journey. You will be product-minded, delivery focused, yet comfortable with failure, adopting the Agile principle of fail-fast and learn from it. You will be focused on building a team that is responsive, quality driven and built for success.

Key Responsibilities:

\xc2\xb7 Recruiting and retaining a team of technical professionals across the full spectrum of software engineering capabilities.

\xc2\xb7 People management of the team.

\xc2\xb7 Ensuring projects are resourced correctly.

\xc2\xb7 Ensure best practices in Software Development are maintained

\xc2\xb7 Ensure quality, scalability, and maintainability of code and software architecture.

\xc2\xb7 Monitor team performance, set performance goals, conduct regular performance evaluations, and provide feedback.

\xc2\xb7 Be a subject matter expert (SME) for digital adoption throughout RWS

\xc2\xb7 Work with the architecture function to ensure a reusable and composable architecture is adopted.

\xc2\xb7 Work with the UX function to ensure a consistent and highly compelling set of user journeys are developed and maintained.

\xc2\xb7 Work with product managers and other business stakeholders to help shape roadmaps and help prioritize the backlogs.

\xc2\xb7 In conjunction with the QA and development functions, defining and improving software quality across software delivery teams and delivering efficiency and improving software development.

Skills and Experience:

\xc2\xb7 5 years\' experience working in a technical role in digital development

\xc2\xb7 3 years\' experience of managing technical software development teams

\xc2\xb7 Hands-on experience in either REACT, Node.JS, Java or related technologies

\xc2\xb7 Good understanding of Agile principles with either practical experience of SCRUM or Kanban,

\xc2\xb7 Good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

\xc2\xb7 As this is a global role you will have both excellent written and spoken English and will be able to communicate with both technical and business stakeholders where English is not a first language.

\xc2\xb7 Understanding of AWS architecture would be advantageous.

\xc2\xb7 Understanding of PCI compliance would be advantageous.

Category

IT Project Management

Job Type

Full-time

RWS