Senior Software Development / Project Manager

Salary: £90,000 – £102,000 per year

Purpose of the role:
The Senior Development Project Manager will provide focus for the next gen deliveries and plan, monitor and govern projects to ensure they are delivered in accordance with company processes / best practice, to the agreed timeframe, specification and within budget. The holder will ensure that outcomes are achieved, expectations are well managed and business benefits are met.
The role will also require supporting the ongoing development of our Agile processes and best practice.

Duties and Responsibilities:
The holder will be accountable for managing a strategic project split across agile teams who will be building a high performing, scalable, enterprise-grade suite of online applications and services.
You will be responsible for ensuring that priorities are aligned to the product roadmap / stakeholder expectations, financial and technical governance is observed, and value is realised.
The holder will assist the assigned Product Management team to ensure that the product backlogs are in good shape and are clear enough for the delivery team to work on and act as a safeguard for the delivery teams.
You will ensure that best practices are respected (adopt, advertise, document and train) and continuously improved.

• Project delivery
• Project reporting
• Project governance
• Stakeholder management

Who we are looking for:
You will be a talented and accomplished Senior Project Manager with commercial acumen, experienced in working with key stakeholders on full-lifecycle Agile product development in a matrix resource environment. 
You should be able to manage a development from concept to production managing the allocation of work, developing the velocity, performance, and skills of project teams.
You should have experience facilitating seamless collaboration and maximizing team performance across multiple teams to ensure rapid delivery of products and timeline achievement of goals.
Essential skills & knowledge:

• of Agile methodologies and tools
• Scrum/Kanban. Excellent MS Office Skills, including MS Project and Azure DevOps (ADO). Excellent literacy and numeracy skills.
• Work autonomously (without supervision)

Why work for us:
We aim to offer an inclusive and great place to work. We are passionate about building diverse teams and celebrating individuality. We love seeing our people grow and develop their careers and in return we reward talent with competitive salaries and great benefits.
When you choose a career with us you also get access to a wide range of excellent, highly competitive benefits such as:

• Career progression
• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
• Flexible/Hybrid working (including working from home where the job allows)
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform
• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more

About SSS Public Safety
SSS Public Safety (formerly Capita Secure Solutions and Services) is a leading solution provider to the Police, Criminal Justice, Emergency Services and Critical Responder sectors across the world; helping to realise benefits through technology-enabled Digital Transformation. We pride ourselves on being innovative and our integrated portfolio of solutions is testament to the continued investments we make. Our solutions encompass Control Rooms and Contact Centres, Integrated Communications, Digital Evidence Management, Records Management, ERP solutions and Critical Messaging services supported by a fully integrated, secure mobile and agile working capability.

Equality Statement

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.