Development Manager

Due to our continued growth, we have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and inspiring Development Manager. Supporting our Chief Technology Officer, you will help in leading our software development teams. This role is responsible for building high-performing developers and increasing velocity, whilst embedding a strong culture of ownership, accountability and continuous improvement.

The Development Manager will balance people leadership, delivery oversight and technical credibility whilst ensuring teams are motivated, aligned to business goals and consistently delivering high-quality software. The role will also involve close collaboration with stakeholders across the business to align development work with strategic goals and ensure clear communication between the Tech team and other departments.

Key requirements include:

• You will be a keen technologist, always keeping up to date with new and emerging technologies and able to pick up new languages and tools quickly
• You will be able to create a culture of ownership where individuals and teams take responsibility for outcomes not just tasks
• Leading by example your will be able to deliver velocity, whilst maintaining quality and technical standards, identifying blockers and inefficiencies to keep teams moving fast and remaining focused
• You will support sound technical decisions and help manage the technical debt in line with long term product goals

• Bachelor's degree or several years of experience in ecommerce, computer science, or other related fields
• Committed to good engineering practices (CI/CD, code reviews), * 7 plus years' development experience in a mid-to-large, complex and successful organisation
• Proven experience in managing and developing software developers
• Strong track record of improving team performance, engagement and delivery velocity
• Excellent leadership, communication, interpersonal skills and able to inspire
• Solid understanding of modern software development practices and agile methodology
• Familiar with AWS
• An understanding of architecture, including microservices
• Building and deploying your own code
• Build restful API's
• Taking part in the discovery of new features

Working for Chorus Intelligence is rewarding and challenging. Therefore, we offer a number of benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Private healthcare
• 25 days holiday
• Day off for your birthday
• Death in service - 6 x salary
• Share options after 1 year of service
• Subsidised Gym membership
• Holiday buy scheme
• Training
• Pension (auto enrolment)
• Security clearance (essential for this role and you must have been resident in the UK for the last 5 years to be able obtain this)

Chorus Intelligence is a global technology company headquartered in the United Kingdom. Our North American headquarters is in Virginia Beach, VA. We are trusted suppliers of investigative software that enables our customers to confidently turn data into intelligence and evidence. We have created the Chorus Intelligence Suite, a modular software solution that assists law enforcement through each stage of a digital investigation and now launching the product into financial institutions. Chorus has been providing law enforcement with innovative software solutions since 2011. We are established in most of the UK's Police Forces and Government Agencies and are growing exponentially across North America. At Chorus Intelligence, we work hard to ensure that we conduct our business in a way that gives our customers confidence that our operations are secure, continuously improving and designed to meet the expected levels of quality. The Culture Chorus Intelligence prides itself on being customer focussed and driven, following our core values in all we do. We employ agile working practices and a flat organisational structure that keeps us all in proximity. Ideas and new ways of working are encouraged, with quick decisions and actions allowing us to deliver high customer satisfaction and excellent retention rates., Chorus Intelligence's head office is in Woodbridge, Suffolk, with a hub in Cambridge. This role is office based in Woodbridge 4 days a week and 1 day working from home (normally a Friday). You will benefit from free parking at this site.