KDB Developer in Belfast

Work Location: Belfast, United Kingdom

Hours: 35

Line of Business: Technology Solutions

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Job Description:

• KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
• CUSTOMER

• Responsible for leading development teams and the delivery of development solutions and component/unit testing efforts.
• Oversee and report on project status, managing project team resources and assignment, ensuring project milestones are met and monitoring to keep projects on schedule and to budget within identified standards.
• Work with LOB TS partners to develop the content of overall development/solutions design deliverables and ensure project estimates account for all activities in the project scope, including project management and application development, software quality assurance reviews, and vendor and contract management activities.
• Ensure all requirements, project plans, and changes to commitment are communicated to all affected team members.
• Responsible for defining Application Development Vendor strategy and managing Vendors and SLAs and ensure work is delivered according to the agreed-upon Service Level and Operational Level Agreements.
• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders to support/develop sound business cases with an ongoing focus on reusability, scalability, innovation and enterprise-wide solutions.
• Oversee and manage escalated issues to ensure resolution or redirect as appropriate.

• 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 for working to define and implement mitigation strategies.
• Ensure full compliance with well-defined enterprise technology delivery practices and standards and project management disciplines by ensuring that recognized system development and project management processes, discipline and controls are consistently applied.
• Control change to development project scope through accepted change management processes, impact assessment and documentation.
• Responsible for delivering in line with financial forecast/plan, and achieving benefits targets as defined for Application Development teams.
• Manage and track costs in line with investment governance to deliver agreed outcomes and service-level 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.
• Identifies 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.

• Responsible for management of 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 look for ways to provide and enhance the value delivered.
• Foster an environment/culture that encourages productivity, innovation, process improvement, teamwork and a high level of professionalism.
• Co-ordinate necessary resources to ensure completion by deadlines.
• Provide coaching, development, succession, recruitment, resource management and overall team leadership for team members and provide regular input into team members’ assessment of performance and development plans.
• Prioritise and manage own workload in order 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/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.

• Expert knowledge of Bank, technology standards and managing people/projects.
• Advanced understanding of businesses and/or organizational practices/disciplines.
• Strong knowledge of external competition and/or market trends in relation to own business.
• Manages a sizable group or team of IT professionals.