Development manager required to work as part of a fast paced development team within a large media/publishing company. Role will involve working with globally distributed development and project teams to provide technical leadership on a range of mission critical projects. This will be a hands-on technical role that will involve technical input as well running a team of resources to deliver projects.
The development manager is responsible for:
* Working with the project management and technical architecture functions to help requirements gathering and documentation.
* Working with technical architecture and QA functions to define and implement technical projects within coding, architecture and security standards.
* Day to day management and mentoring of development resources to ensure timely and on budget delivery of project deliverables.
* Ensuring accurate weekly and monthly reporting of costs and progress of projects.
A successful candidate must have the following experience:
* A minimum of 5 years of demonstrable commercial experience of developing data driven, service orientated, public facing websites under tight time constraints.
* Successfully working on multiple projects/streams simultaneously.
* Strong experience of current Microsoft technologies (all .Net Frameworks, SQL Server, etc.).
* Good communication skills with non‐technical staff.
* Agile/adaptive development methodologies and working closely with project management teams.
* C#, Javascript, jQuery, HTML5 and TSQL.
* Design patterns, SOLID design principles, domain-driven design.
Experience of all of the following isn’t mandatory, but highly beneficial:
* REST: OpenRasta or ASP.NET MVC 4 Web API.
* .Net 4 based TDD and BDD: using nUnit, moq/RhinoMocks, SpecFlow, CastleWindsor/Ninject/Spring.Net, NHibernate, NAnt, CI.
* MVC and Entity Framework.
* Sitecore or other commercial web CMS frameworks.
* Experience of Marklogic or other NoSQL data stores desirable.
* Java - JUnit, Mockito, Spring 3 MVC, Hibernate/Ibatis, Tomcat, Apache, Maven.
* LAMP stack.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established, technology lead, global organisation with some exciting plans for 2013. Based in Central London, this role is paying in the region of £50,000pa to £55,000pa.
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The development manager is responsible for:
* Working with the project management and technical architecture functions to help requirements gathering and documentation.
* Working with technical architecture and QA functions to define and implement technical projects within coding, architecture and security standards.
* Day to day management and mentoring of development resources to ensure timely and on budget delivery of project deliverables.
* Ensuring accurate weekly and monthly reporting of costs and progress of projects.
A successful candidate must have the following experience:
* A minimum of 5 years of demonstrable commercial experience of developing data driven, service orientated, public facing websites under tight time constraints.
* Successfully working on multiple projects/streams simultaneously.
* Strong experience of current Microsoft technologies (all .Net Frameworks, SQL Server, etc.).
* Good communication skills with non‐technical staff.
* Agile/adaptive development methodologies and working closely with project management teams.
* C#, Javascript, jQuery, HTML5 and TSQL.
* Design patterns, SOLID design principles, domain-driven design.
Experience of all of the following isn’t mandatory, but highly beneficial:
* REST: OpenRasta or ASP.NET MVC 4 Web API.
* .Net 4 based TDD and BDD: using nUnit, moq/RhinoMocks, SpecFlow, CastleWindsor/Ninject/Spring.Net, NHibernate, NAnt, CI.
* MVC and Entity Framework.
* Sitecore or other commercial web CMS frameworks.
* Experience of Marklogic or other NoSQL data stores desirable.
* Java - JUnit, Mockito, Spring 3 MVC, Hibernate/Ibatis, Tomcat, Apache, Maven.
* LAMP stack.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established, technology lead, global organisation with some exciting plans for 2013. Based in Central London, this role is paying in the region of £50,000pa to £55,000pa.