Head of Development

Location

Norwich, Norfolk | United Kingdom

Job description

Head Of Development(Inside IR35)

Contract Term: 6 Months

Contracting Authority: Crown Commercial Services

Location: Remote/Liverpool/Birmingham/Norwich/London

CCS is the largest public procurement organisation in the UK.

As a trading fund and executive agency of the Cabinet Office, we implement procurement policy on behalf of the government.

We use the collective buying power of our customers and our commercial expertise to help public sector organisations achieve value for money and provide great outcomes for taxpayers.

As a Head of Develpment, your main responsibilities will be: 

• Capacity management. You can manage the service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
• Development process optimisation. You can identify process optimisation opportunities with guidance and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions.
• Information security. You understand information security and can design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services.
• Systems design. You can design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. You can select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively. You know how to review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
• Prototyping. You see prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. You establish design patterns and iterate them. You know a variety of methods of prototyping and can choose the most appropriate ones.

You’ll have relevant experience in:

• Modern standards approach. You can use modern standards approach competently and guide others in so doing.
• Experienced maintaining backlogs and other management skillset.
• Programming and build (software engineering). You can collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications. You can use these agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium to high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
• Experienced in JAVA/Ruby on Rails.
• Service support. You can identify, locate and fix faults.
• Systems integration. You can define the integration build. You can coordinate build activities across systems and can undertake and support integration testing activities.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with [email protected]

At CCS, we actively support, promote, and celebrate our differences for the benefit of our employees, suppliers, and customers. CCS is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. CCS believes that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people.

Disability confident  

As a member of the disability confident scheme, CCS guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. 

CCSguarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on [email protected].  

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview. 

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any?point during the recruitment process or if there is a?more accessible way for us to communicate, please do?let me know. 

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

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