Delivery Lead

As an independent, award-winning and B Corp-Certified investment consultancy, we provide a full range of outcome-oriented advice, research and technology to some of the largest pension funds, wealth managers and other institutional investors across the UK and Europe.

The Manager Research team is responsible for researching and selecting best-in-class investment managers from across the world for our clients to invest in. The team is also responsible for identifying new and emerging themes, monitoring selected investment managers and delivering bespoke client projects.

Since our humble beginnings, we’ve challenged norms and pushed boundaries to deliver on our mission of helping to make 100 million people financially secure – for the benefit of people and planet.

Our team is home to some of the brightest minds in finance who thrive on seeking innovative solutions to our clients’ complex challenges.

Sound like your cup of tea? We’d love for you to consider joining our team!

Job Description

About the team

Our agile development team are responsible for building internal and client-facing applications, including research, data, analytics and interactive investment tools. We delivered these through both web interfaces and function libraries. We make a big impact on the business and believe in continuous improvement and learning with dedicated L&D days each sprint as well as access to a learning platform. It’s about focus and efficiency and ultimately delivering results.

About the role
A hands-on role leading an Agile Scrum team of developers, you will be responsible for:

• Hands-on contribution: Actively participating in delivering development stories during the sprint and driving technical approach.
• Scrum Lead: Facilitating agile practices and ceremonies including daily standups, sprint planning and refinement sessions. Track the team’s performance using Agile metrics like velocity, burn-down charts, and cycle time to identify areas for improvement.
• Team Coordination: Acting as a bridge between the development team and other stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and collaboration. Helping resolve any impediments that may block the team’s progress.
• Mentorship and Support: Providing guidance and support to team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and learning. Helping team members grow their skills and advance their careers.
• Backlog Management: Working closely with the Product Owner to manage the product backlog, ensuring that user stories are well-defined, prioritized, and ready for development.
• Quality Assurance: Promoting best practices in coding, testing, and deployment to ensure high-quality software delivery. Encouraging the use of automated testing and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Innovation and Improvement: Encouraging the team to experiment with new tools, techniques, and processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Qualifications

This role is for you if you have the following skills, experience and attributes:

• Experience leading a development team using an Agile Scrum approach.
• Highly proficient in C# .NET.
• Knowledge of React (preferable) or Angular.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies such as Azure or AWS.
• Strong experience with a RDBMS and SQL (preferably PostgreSQL or SQL server).
• Practical experience with microservice architecture.
• Professional attitude (self-starter, ability to work with minimal supervision and in a team as required, ability to meet deadlines).

It would be great if you also have the following skills and experience:

• Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related degree.
• Experience working with Event Sourcing and CQRS.
• Serverless development especially AWS Lambda.
• Experience with a NoSQL database, preferably MongoDB.

Additional Information

The benefits

A competitive salary and bonus.

9% matching contributions to our expertly-designed pension scheme.

25 days of holiday per year (plus bank holidays and your birthday).

One day per sprint dedicated to Learning and Development, plus access to L&D providers.

Access to private medical insurance, critical illness cover and life assurance.

Paid maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave.

Plus many more, which you can read about here .

Equal opportunities

Diversity isn’t about recruiting individuals from minority groups to meet a quota; it’s about recruiting people from genuinely different backgrounds who bring with them a unique experience, perspective and skillset into an inclusive environment. Our commitment to inclusion and diversity will help us to tackle complex problems and create innovative solutions.

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all applicants irrespective of their age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

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