Manager, IT Development

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key responsibilities and scope

• Technical ownership: accountable for the end-to-end technical design, build quality and operational health of all integration services delivered by the squad; the final technical decision-maker within the squad, working inside the architecture standards set for the platform.
• People leadership: direct line management of 3–5 Java engineers — hiring input, onboarding, objectives, performance reviews, development plans, and day-to-day coaching and task allocation.
• Delivery leadership: accountable for the squad meeting agreed scope, quality and timelines across concurrent client, vendor and product integration workstreams; escalates risk early and with options.
• Engineering standards: defines and enforces the squad’s standards for design documentation, coding, branching, testing, code review, security and release; is the gatekeeper on what is allowed to ship.
• Stakeholder influence: influences product owners, architects, client IT contacts and vendor technical teams on feasibility, sequencing, interface design and technical trade-offs; has no direct authority over these groups but is expected to be persuasive and evidence-led with them.
• Platform contribution: contributes to platform-wide architecture, reusable components, shared tooling and engineering practice beyond the boundary of their own squad.
• Risk, security and compliance: responsible for ensuring the squad’s services handle personal and client data in line with Randstad security, privacy and data protection requirements.

job tasks

• Produce and review technical designs, interface specifications and integration patterns for new and changing integrations, and see them through architecture and security review.
• Design, write and review production Java code — services, APIs, event consumers, transformations, error handling and retry logic — to the standard expected of the most senior engineer in the squad.
• Run code review as a routine discipline, giving specific, teachable feedback and holding a consistent quality bar across the team.
• Break down requirements with the product owner into estimable, sequenced work; challenge scope and assumptions where the technical cost is disproportionate to the value.
• Line manage the squad: one-to-ones, objective setting, performance reviews, development planning, onboarding of new joiners, and handling of day-to-day people matters with HR and the reporting manager.
• Plan and oversee the squad’s sprint or iteration work, unblock engineers, rebalance workload and keep delivery status visible and honest.
• Own the squad’s production services: monitoring, alerting, on-call or escalation participation, incident triage, root cause analysis and follow-up remediation.
• Drive automated testing and CI/CD practice for the squad — unit, integration and contract tests, pipeline quality gates, and repeatable, low-drama releases.
• Work directly with client IT teams and vendor technical contacts on interface design, credentials and connectivity, data mapping, test cycles and go-live cutover.
• Identify, document and reduce technical debt; propose and sequence refactoring and platform improvement work alongside feature delivery.
• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks and support knowledge so that services can be operated and extended by people other than their authors.
• Support hiring and capability building — interviewing, technical assessment, knowledge sharing sessions and mentoring of junior engineers.

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