Development Lead - Bright Exchange & BrightHR.com

Salary: Salary up to £80,000 Location: Manchester

Development Lead - Bright Exchange & BrightHR.com

Salary up to £80,000

Location

Manchester

Purpose

To drive agile delivery management practice across portfolio projects in the team, supporting hands on development where necessary. Working closely with stakeholders to manage ADRID logs, improving predictability where necessary.

Responsibilities

The main deliverables of the role will be working alongside of the marketing team and reporting into the Chief International Growth and Marketing Officer, youll be responsible for:

• Technical SEO roadmap driving best in class core web vitals on our Bright Exchange & brighthr.com sites.
• 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 Bright Exchange closed group marketplace, driving growth in product engagement, returning visitors and revenue in affiliate sales.
  
  

Reports to

Director Of Engineering & Chief International Growth and Marketing Officer.

Day-to-day responsibilities include but are not limited to the below:

• 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
  
  

Key Requirements Key Competencies And Attributes

• 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 teams 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
  
  

BrightHR Benefits

• Enhanced holidays 25 days increasing to 27 after 2 years service and 28 after 5 years service (22 Days for Field Sales)
• Private health care cover after 5 years service
• New business referral scheme
• Access to Health Shield
• Access to the EAP service
• Refer a friend scheme
• Paid birthday leave
• Pension scheme contribution increasing to 5% after 5 years service and again to 7% after 7 years service
• Group life insurance
• Eye care contribution
• Free fruit (office-based staff)
• Travel Season Ticket loan scheme
• Milestone recognition
• Discounted products Manchester City centre parking (AO Arena) / First Bus Travel Club Membership / Microsoft Home User programme / Anglian Home Improvements
• Pace health Club (situated in the park Inn) discounted gym membership and spa treatments
• Park Inn 20% food and drink discount
• New Century 20% food and drink discount
• Revolution De Cuba 20% food and drink discount
• Cycle 2 Work scheme* after probationary period
• On site Gym
• Bright Exchange perks
  
  

Values & Behaviours

• Living the company values of We care, We take action, we innovate, we inform, and we do the right thing
• We lead by example and recognise those living our values
• We drive the narrative by inspiring and engaging our team
• We collaborate with rigor and embrace diversity of thought
• We deliver with a united voice
• We take ownership by staying close to team performance by Super Coaching and Walking the Walk
• We keep our approach simple and stick to the playbook to deliver on promise
• We think critically and commercially, assess the situation before jumping to the solution
  
  

We are BrightHR; the only software powered by HR, health & safety, and legal experts. Everything you need to simply manage your staff, all in one place, PLUS free tools to set your business apart.

We are on a mission to transform people management for businesses. Weve been making life easier for employers since 2015 with our range of innovative software, are providing HR, H&S, and business support to over 95,000 businesses globally.

We are a people business. The market moves quickly and so do we. We put the customer first, working hard and always looking ahead, purposefully innovating to ensure peace of mind.

BrightHR is an Equal Opportunity and Disability Confident Employer, committed to diversity and inclusion without regard to protected characteristics.

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