Description

Fantastic greenfield DevOps opportunity to define and lead the development and deployment of DevOps technology, tools and processes for a global Financial services organisation.

The role will oversee our global DevOps solutions across our globally distributed software development teams.  Works cross-functionally as a member of our Software Development Leadership team to instil a DevOps culture and mentality in the software product development teams and wider Enterprise. Leads the delivery our of SDLC and CI technologies.

Summary of Duties and Responsibilities:

· Represents and leads organisational DevOps capability improvement and instils a DevOps culture across our global software development teams.

· Create and drive the execution of the roadmap to migrate the company to best practice CI/CD/TDD with full automation following Scaled Agile principles.

· Determines the need for strategic organisation-level DevOps improvement to satisfy the strategic goals and long-term objectives of the organisation.

· Liaises with Software Development Operational Leadership Team to establish requirements and identifies, proposes, initiates and leads significant organisational capability improvement programmes.

· Develops configuration management strategies, policies, standards, and guidelines.

· Adopts and/or modifies existing DevOps improvement approaches as necessary.

· Champions the importance and value of configuration management and develops new methods and organisational capabilities (including automation) for configuration management.

· Provides resources to drive adoption of, and adherence to, policies and standards.

· Measures and monitors adherence to standards and ensures consistent execution of the process across the organisation.

· Develops organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for DevOps methods and tools, including Software Development Lifecycle, Test Driven Development, Build Automation, Systems Integration, and Continuous Integration.

· Implement best practice SDLC practices matched to the needs of different initiatives

· Sets direction and leads in the introduction and use of techniques, methodologies and tools, to match overall business requirements, ensuring consistency across all user groups.

· Leads the development of organisational capabilities for methods and tools (including automation) to ensure adoption and adherence to policies and standards. Ensure the latest technologies are leveraged for TDD; with full automation for the unit tests through integration test through end-to-end testing

· Leads the creation of a DevOps infrastructure that automates deployment directly into production such that on any given day a production ready product can be deployed in an automated fashion.

· Provide consultative, architectural, and engineering support for our DevOps journey.

· Work with stakeholders, vendors and infrastructure teams to deliver transformational solutions leveraging automation tools.

· Own responsibility for the commercial justification of adopting new technology through clearly defined value propositions that are measurable

· Refine DevOps model and driving solution architecture and best practices Partner with development and operations teams to facilitate practical automation solutions and custom modules

· Advocate for and ensure appropriate security best practices are developed and implemented across the DevOps space.

· Look for ways to help the team improve their processes and tooling and take ownership for delivering on some of the agreed improvements

· Keep abreast of key DevOps trends, methods, strategies and skills · Mentor, coach, and train all team members in all facets of DevOps

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Extensive demonstrable experience of:

· History of success in DevOps leadership roles and hands on experience in DevOps, with proven track record of leading a team to transform the efforts of an engineering organization

· Experience of building infrastructure requirements to facilitate the successful adoption of DevOps processes, procedure & technologies

· Experience in an Agile environment, and running Agile through a modern platform, such as Microsoft and Atlassian technologies

· Working in cross-functional Agile software development team

· Strong staff management and organizational skills

· Strong influence skills at the senior leadership level

· Strong work ethic; self-directed and resourceful; self-starter who acts with initiative and is pro-active

Desirable skills and experience:

· Knowledge of ATMs and Self-Service technology

Personal attributes:

· A passion for software development & automation and a keen interest in building upon / creating new solutions that help make a team more successful

· A driven and self-motivated individual who can push forward and complete tasks without the need for supervision

· Influences policy and strategy formation.

· Demonstrates clear leadership. Communicates effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences.

· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

· Ability to work well under pressure and meet tight deadlines

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills

· Methodical and excellent attention to detail

· Ability to work independently as well as in teams with strong interpersonal skills

· Ability to communicate with, and support, team members with varying levels of experience