development manager

Impact:

• Responsible for the success of a group of self-organising agile teams of various functions, aimed to develop and deliver new features and functionality with

consideration to best practices, existing processes, and CI/CD principles.

• Operates with significant management responsibility opposite senior OpenBet stakeholders.

• Ability to work with and influence senior stakeholders - managing upwards.

• Adept at empowering others to lead and developing management skills in others.

• Supports company forecasting through, for example, managing team size, utilisation and reporting.

• Supports commercial aspects of their area of ownership including contractual matters, licensing agreements and audits.

• Motivating and driving the team with technical leadership and vision

• Enforces Continuous Integration and High Quality / Fast Feedback principles

• Proactively gathers internal and external stakeholder perspective and presents alternative solutions.

• Identifies and manages internal and external stakeholders, 3rd parties and other OpenBet departments in relation to their teams’ work and effectively drives

through consensus decisions.

• Ensures teams’ ability to consistently deliver within agreed timescales.

Communication:

• Capable of independently leading departmental change projects through liaison and coordination across internal and external teams

• Capable of contributing to a business plan with awareness of stakeholder context and consideration for investment/return strategy.

• Able to lead discussions and advise business owners on the relative strengths of different approaches.

• Capable of proactively managing stakeholders’ expectations.

• Builds strong working relationships with key stakeholders and experts outside of the department.

• Acting as the escalation point, managing communications and ability to have difficult/political discussions with external stakeholders

• Experience in coordinating Production Incidents of high priority

Innovation:

• Manage feedback from teams and ensures processes and technical improvements are followed through with guidance from senior management

• Ensure implementation of new innovations and that they adhere to engineering best practices such as CI, automated testing, performance and security

• Proactively supports teams to identify technical debt and inefficiencies in the platform

• Enables teams to improve Continuous Integration and High Quality / Fast Feedback principles

Leadership & Autonomy:

• Capable of managing through other managers; managing large and / or multiple teams within their department.

• Operates independently with significant responsibility as the primary decision maker for one or more teams, platforms, products or major projects.

• Adept at empowering others to lead and coach management skills to others.

• Acts as a role model to promote the OpenBet culture and motivate their teams.

• Lead shaping software engineering practices and processes

• Accountable for the implementation and deployment of development work

• Owns (maybe shared) customer relationships on behalf of OpenBet and makes day to day decisions that have implications for business relationships and

commercial consequences (OpenServices).

• Supports company forecasting through, for example, managing team size, utilisation and reporting.

• Participating in interviews for senior members of the department.

Knowledge & Experience:

• Knowledge of Agile Principles, experience in leading efficiently multiple co-dependent Agile Teams or experience with the Scaled Agile or LESS frameworks

• Experience and ability to understand high-level architecture of complex systems and platforms of distributed architecture with multiple integration points

• Adept at line and people management, from recruitment through to appraisals, salary reviews and performance management. Experienced and sensitive in

handling difficult conversations.

• Experience in overseeing engineering practices implemented by the teams in multiple disciplines (Dev, QA, Analysis, SRE, Integration) and following the

company standards and strategies.

• Supports finance in submission of capitalisable investment, R&D tax credits, provision of revenue share data and forecasting of license fees