KDB Developer

Work Location: Belfast, United Kingdom • Hours: 35

Key Responsibilities

• Lead development teams and deliver development solutions, including component and unit testing.
• Oversee and report on project status, manage project-team resources and assignments, ensure milestones are met, and keep projects on schedule and within the budgeted standards.
• Collaborate with LOB TS partners to develop overall development/solutions design deliverables and ensure project estimates include all activities in scope, including project management, application development, software quality assurance reviews, and vendor and contract management.
• Communicate all requirements, project plans, and changes to commitments to all affected team members.
• Define application development vendor strategy, manage vendors and SLAs, and ensure work is delivered according to agreed-upon Service Level and Operational Level Agreements.
• Support and develop sound business cases with a focus on reusability, scalability, innovation and enterprise-wide solutions.
• Oversee and manage escalated issues to ensure resolution or appropriate redirection.
• Ensure that the project team follows all quality assurance processes, including periodic reviews and transitions.
• Drive stakeholder communication and develop effective stakeholder management required for successful application development delivery.
• Act as an escalation point for all risks and issues affecting the development team and implement mitigation strategies.
• Ensure full compliance with well-defined enterprise technology delivery practices, standards, and project management disciplines, consistently applying recognized system development and project management processes, discipline and controls.
• Control changes to development project scope through accepted change management processes, impact assessment and documentation.
• Deliver in line with financial forecast/plan and achieve benefits targets as defined for application development teams.
• Manage and track costs in line with investment governance to deliver agreed outcomes and service levels within budget.
• Oversee demand management and project intake process, ensuring the development team can deliver on intake requirements and financial cost estimations are reviewed and approved.
• Identify all development-related project dependencies and risks, and ensure mitigation/contingency plans are in place for identified risks.
• Represent the development team at project stakeholder meetings and obtain buy-in from senior management for all key project plans, commitments, and changes, including requirements, quality assurance plans, budget, schedule and scope changes.
• Define and establish appropriate governance structures and processes to ensure that the development team adopts and adheres to all defined operational and service delivery processes.

Team Management Responsibilities

• Manage the overall development/design teams, providing both leadership and technical guidance.
• Set targets and objectives for the team and deliver results.
• Grow team expertise to align with enterprise demand and the Bank's technology direction; assess team skills and capabilities and continually improve value delivered.
• Foster an environment and culture that encourages productivity, innovation, process improvement, teamwork and professionalism.
• Coordinate necessary resources to ensure completion by deadlines.
• Provide coaching, development, succession, recruitment, resource management and overall team leadership, plus regular input into performance and development plans.
• Prioritize and manage own workload to deliver quality results and meet timelines.
• Support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork, and ensure timely communication of issues and points of interest.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency of the business unit and/or team.
• Establish effective relationships across multiple business and technology partners, program and project managers.
• Participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business units.

Breadth & Depth

• Expert knowledge of bank technology standards and managing people/projects.
• Advanced understanding of business and organizational practices/disciplines.
• Strong knowledge of external competition and market trends in relation to own business.
• Manage a sizeable group or team of IT professionals (< 25) responsible for development/solutions design and/or system enhancements, new releases or project deliverables of increasing complexity from moderate to broad scope.

Experience & Education

• Undergraduate degree or technical certificate (a graduate degree is preferred).
• 7+ years of relevant experience.