Development Lead
Job Purpose
To drive agile delivery management practice across the portfolio of projects in the team, supporting hands on development where necessary. Working closely with stakeholders to manage ADRID logs, improving predictability where necessary.
The main deliverables of the role will be working alongside of the marketing team and reporting into the Chief Growth Officer, you’ll be responsible for
technical SEO roadmap driving best in class core vitals, AI search ranking and improved search ranking across Google/Bing support sales lead growth
technical CRO roadmap driving best in class site conversion to deliver sales leads targets
technical delivery of Exchange, BHR closed group marketplace, driving growth in product engagement, returning visitors and revenue in affiliate sales
Dimensions
Responsibility for the delivery practice and technical governance of a segment of our portfolio of products, a budget of around £500K annually.
Direct Reports
Front End Developers, Back End Developers, Software Engineer in Test, Business Analysts. User Experience Designers & Researchers
Reports To
Director Of Engineering or Chief International Growth and Marketing Officer
Internal and External Relationships
CEO, CTO, CGMO, Head of Sales, Associate Director of Service, Product Owners, Delivery Teams
Other Context
BrightHR operates cross functional delivery teams strongly embracing agile principles of delivery to manage expectations on delivery scope and schedule. A successful commercial organisation with an international presence and digital penetration is 5 countries. Currently operating from our HQ in Manchester with the business units co-located with the delivery team working in a highly collaborative user centric product delivery fashion.
Accountability
Actively engage with and manage external dependencies, whether partners, suppliers or other businesses in the group in order to manage external dependencies and avoid impacts from external dependencies.
Set and manage expectations of a wide and demanding stakeholder set on product delivery including scope, schedule and return on investment.
Continual calibration of velocity and communication of impact on schedule in order to continually improve predictability.
Drive relative sizing and calibration to establish uncalibrated schedule.
Ensure that epics are elaborated sufficiently to relatively size.
Inspect and adapt regularly in order to tune metrics and stability.
Understand drivers and current metrics to allow management of schedule expectations by either scope, capacity or schedule.
Assumptions, Decisions, Risks, Issues, and Dependencies are actively managed to successful mitigation by managing the actively required.
Set teams expectations about why we follow HR best practice as we consult our clients to do.
Hire people that are aligned with the business values.
Ensure that team members attend the office in line with contractual requirements and business needs.
Ensure that team members follow guidance set out in our ways of working document about dress code and flexitime.
Make realistic commitments with the Add team that you are confident of meeting and strive to do so.
Maintain and improve engineering practice.
Maintain and improve software quality for features built (TDD, Pairing, Peer Review, Static Analysis)
Support the product owner in the provision of estimates that are at an appropriate level of fidelity for the phase in the development lifecycle.
Support the QA in identifying describing and resolving defects.
• Support the BA in the elaboration of requirements.
You take responsibility for the entire lifecycle of delivery from idea, marketing, sales and operation
Manage your teams training requirements
Skills
Thorough understanding of agile framework and techniques for managing delivery
Able to drive a team to create relative sized backlogs with initial estimate of velocity
Understanding of AI products and tools and advancement in AI search to support the technical SEO deliverables
Able to calibrate a team’s velocity against an initial prediction and manage the impact
Ensure that the initiative has a coherent Definition of Done and that your features are met
Able to communicate a complicated problem succinctly accurately and coherently to a team with different skill sets
Exhibit cross functional behaviour and support other competencies within the company
Able to negotiate and compromise solutions and find the balance between best practice, expediency and longer-term maintenance costs
Demonstrate, discuss and permeate current good practice in the skills specific to your professional family across other members of your professional family
Propose new technology, process or tooling to improve efficiency being aware of the future maintenance costs and consistency across other product teams
What’s great about working here?
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We shout about our achievements and recognise each other’s work, offering financial rewards & holidays for outstanding performers. Want to see what we’ve been up to? Check out our company blog for insights into our culture, projects, and the people driving our success - https://engineering.brighthr.com/'
An engaging work environment focused on innovation, creativity, and continuous learning.
Our office first approach within our hybrid working policy fosters a sense of community and collaboration available only by being physically present with the great people you can work with.
Enjoy a high degree of autonomy in your approach to solving technical challenges. We take an outcome-driven approach, and we deliver software really well, and really quickly.
Thrive in a developer-led culture that values regular guild & community of practice meets as well as quarterly guild and hack days.
A transparent progression framework and a tailored development plan – know exactly where you are in your development.
Unrestricted access to leadership, fostering transparency, and open communication.
It’s an exciting time to join as our target market starts to shift towards larger companies and our roadmap of work takes shape around that with many brand new features on the horizon.
We shout about our achievements and recognise each other’s work, offering financial rewards & holidays for outstanding performers.
Other Benefits
25 days holiday, increasing with length of service, plus a day off for your birthday.
£500 budget per year for training materials & supplies.
2 conference days per year to attend relevant events to further your own development.
Enhanced sick pay and an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) scheme.
Health Shield scheme for additional health coverage.
Cycle to Work scheme.
Season ticket loan.
Profit Share scheme reflecting the company's success.
Free breakfast every Monday and office fruit to promote a healthy lifestyle.
Various retail discounts and perks.
Access to an on-site gym.
At BrightHR we have a clear identity as to who our people are and the traits, attributes and behaviours that make up our great culture. By joining BrightHR you will have a “can-do” attitude. You are driven to achieve your goals and targets provided, you’re accountable for your remit and willing to help others achieve their goals. You’re not afraid to take risks or share ideas and innovate. You don’t clock watch or wait for the day to end. You’re focused each day on delivering a best-in-class experience, achieving your targets, and contributing to the businesses’ overall growth goals. You’re analytical, organised and work best as part of a team. You don’t operate on maybes, say you’re too busy or you can’t take on anymore. You’re excited about the potential of the future and believe that together we can achieve anything. Learn more here https://www.brighthr.com/about-us/our-culture/
Curious about what we’re building and how we work? Head over to our engineering blog - https://engineering.brighthr.com/ - to dive into our latest projects, ideas, and innovations straight from the team