It Development Lead

Are you an experienced Senior / Lead Developer ?

Do you have experience working in financial services, ideally wealth management, life admin, savings & investments ?

Would you like to work for a Scottish based company who are going through a really interesting transformation ?

They are Glasgow city centre based and its hybrid working (2 days a week in the office)

You will be responsible for the provision of technical leadership, design and development of coding solutions for them.

Responsibilities include:

• Responsible for the delivery of the BAU workstack in accordance with business priorities.
• Work with SCRUM Master and the development resource to plan and deliver Development sprints.
• Review release notes and unit testing.
• Sign off BAU Implementations into production ensuring strict release processes are adhered to.
• Ensure a high level of production support.
• Ensure privileged access is always adhered to.
• Work with Testing and Analysis functions to ensure releases are tested and fit for implementation.
• Work with SCRUM Master to deliver MI on development sprints to senior management.
• Be a source of technical knowledge and be able to understand and review SQL code.
• Offer technical input into complex solutions.
• Mentor and line manage a subset of the development team, helping with objective setting and delivery including conducting 121s with reporting line.
• Follow the development lifecycle and release process for production implementations and fixes.
• Testing, deploying, and maintaining SQL projects and fixes in line with best practices.

Skills and experience:

• Experience in wealth management and life administration, and savings and investments.
• Extensive experience within a development environment, with previous developer experience.
• Experienced in  line management and mentoring.
• Advanced T-SQL and PL-SQL knowledge.
• Advanced skills in SSIS with XML, XSL.
• Understanding of Java and APIs desirable.
• A logical thinker with initiative and ability to problem solve.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact with all levels within the organisation.
• Good knowledge of Life/Pensions products desirable.