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Software Development Team Lead

Bristol, England, United Kingdom | Hybrid
Permanent | Full time
Closing date:  Mar 28 2025

Software Development Team Lead

  • Bristol, England, United Kingdom
  • Full time
  • Closing on: Mar 28 2025
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What is the opportunity?

This is a fantastic opportunity to be a key member of our UK IT Engineering & Delivery Team. You will be responsible for leading the Software Development team to ensure development objectives are delivered on our UK Mortgage Platforms.

Our ambition is to deliver flexible, scalable, and simple solutions that are secure, engaging and enable our customers, colleagues, and communities to thrive!

In this Role, you will

The Development Lead will be responsible for developing a team of software developers, providing technical leadership and expertise to enhance and modernise the bank's technology stack whilst allocating tasks to ensure objectives and goals are met within project timelines.

  • Leading and coordinating a team of software developers, ensuring the software development team are efficiently performing and driving continuous improvement
  • Ensure the software development team continue to adhere to Group Standards and the SDLC whilst adapting Agile ways of working. Ensuring the team follows best coding practices and standards.
  • Providing technical leadership for establishing the direction for the IT architecture, security, standards, design and implementation.
  • Effectively delegating tasks, conducting performance evaluations and managing team dynamics with the ability to resolve conflicts to maintain a balanced work environment.
  • Routinely being responsible for out-of-hours production implementations
  • Ensuring technical solutions are forward thinking in their approach and use the latest innovations in order to keep up with a constantly evolving market.

Essential Skills & Experience

  • Experience leading and mentoring a team of software developers with hands-on development experience.
  • Solid understanding and background in programming languages (e.g. Oracle PL/SQL, C# .NET) and frameworks
  • Experience in designing and developing scalable and maintainable systems, including a good understanding of design patterns, architectural principles and system integration.
  • Good understanding of DevOps, CI/CD Practices & the full SDLC
  • Proficiency in Agile methodology to lead the team's workflow and delivery
  • Highly experienced in conducting Code reviews to ensure alignment to Group Standards and controls
  • Extensive technical knowledge of designing and creating multi-tier technology designed specifically to meet the stakeholder's needs.
  • Strong familiarity with software development methodologies and how implementing new technologies into systems will provide valuable contributions to the partners.
  • Consistent record of successfully leading software development projects from inception to delivery

What will make you stand out?

  • Experience within the controlled development environment of a large Financial Services organization, ideally with knowledge of Mortgage systems
  • Experience of IT delivery using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
  • Ability to identify pragmatic implementation solutions to business and technical challenges
  • Knowledge of secure coding and data privacy practices to ensure applications are secure by design (e.g. Fortify)

Essential Qualifications

There are no specific qualifications or minimum educational requirements needed for this role.

More about the team

The UK IT Engineering & Delivery team are part of the Enterprise Services within Bank of Ireland and are responsible for the full end-to-end delivery and support of a wide range of Mortgage applications.

Services provided by the highly skilled UK IT team range from systems integration architecture, design, security, application and API delivery including platform tooling and support. We deliver flexible and scalable technology that is secure to enable our customers, colleagues and communities to thrive.

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Why work with us?

The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 24 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports.

Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!

Key Competencies

  • Customer Focused - People Manager
  • Agile - People Manager
  • Manage Risk - People Manager
  • One Group, one team - People Manager
  • Amplify Capability - People Manager

Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.

We`re on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email. Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.

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