About this role
Salary: £120,000 - 120,000 per year
Requirements
- At least five years experience managing SaaS development teams
- Experience delivering cloud-based products
- Experience managing large enterprise customer implementations
- People management experience across delivery and operational teams
- Strong stakeholder management and customer communication skills
- Practical knowledge of Agile delivery, including Scrum and Kanban
- Ability to balance commercial priorities, technical considerations and team needs
- Experience coaching technical leaders and guiding teams through complex delivery challenges
Responsibilities
- Set and promote consistent development standards across the software function
- Improve development processes and Agile delivery practices, including Scrum and Kanban
- Ensure Jira workflows support effective planning and delivery
- Help teams achieve sprint and project objectives across multiple workstreams
- Coach Development Managers and Senior Developers, developing their leadership and problem-solving capabilities
- Create an environment where developers and testers can raise concerns, take considered risks and learn from outcomes
- Work directly with customers and stakeholders to resolve issues and develop practical solutions
- Represent the development function in senior customer and planning discussions
- Collaborate with technology leadership on technologies, frameworks and architectural decisions
- Lead recruitment for development roles, from job definition through to candidate selection
Technologies
- Cloud
- Support
- JIRA
- Kanban
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We are seeking an experienced Head of Development to shape engineering standards, strengthen delivery practices and build high-performing teams in a SaaS environment. You will lead managers and senior developers, improving how software is planned, built and delivered while working closely with delivery and technology leadership. The role balances people development, operational effectiveness and technical decision-making across several concurrent workstreams. Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
last updated 46 week of 2026