Software Team Lead

Let’s transform the business of healthcare! At The Craneware Group, we are dedicated to empowering our customers with industry-defining insights that pave the way for a brighter future. If you are an energetic, forward-thinking individual with a passion for innovation, we invite you to join our thriving team of more than 750 dedicated professionals. Together, we'll fuel the expansion of our SaaS platform and develop cutting-edge applications that redefine the healthcare landscape.

The Craneware Group supports a flexible work environment as well as a collaborative and teamwork focused atmosphere. Employees will be expected to work a hybrid working arrangement spending 40% of their time per month in the Tanfield office - approx 2 days per week.

The Team: Craneware is looking for a Software Manager, Development. In this leadership role you will be responsible for a team of Engineers working with Big Data technology to drive improvements in the US-based healthcare market. We are growing a team of strong thinkers and innovators that are willing to work closely with product and customer-facing teams to design and develop new applications in the Cloud.

We are expanding our current platform and SaaS product offerings by using cutting edge technology to process very large data sets that will provide actionable insights for our customers. Architecting our solutions with a best of breed approach to technology, both .NET and Java-based platforms are leveraged in order to provide the necessary scale and rapidly bring products to market. Innovative, collaborative, and agile are critical skills that our engineering team members must possess in our environment.

You’ll be leading a small and friendly agile team of talented software and automation engineers to deliver high quality and elegant cloud-based software solutions that have impact on millions of people, leveraging the Azure platform and latest technologies.

Do you have what it takes?

• You are passionate about developing products that will positively impact millions of people and provide better outcomes.
• You have experience building high-performance, resilient, and scalable solutions.
• You love working collaboratively and enjoy teamwork to deliver high quality software solutions.
• You are a strong believer in test driven development and continuous delivery.
• You seek opportunities to expand your knowledge and deepen your expertise and bring innovation.

You Will Be:

• Accountable for the technical delivery of software to customers while ensuring it is well architected, maintainable and uses appropriate design patterns and SOLID principles.
• Accountable to ensure team code quality, security and testability is high e.g. SonarQube, OWASP.
• Working with product management to provide technical solutions to meet product requirements and delight our customers.
• Managing, leading and developing a team of engineers to achieve their career objectives through the full contribution management process including contribution reviews and goal setting, promotions and performance improvement plans.
• Working with peers to define consistent Engineering Software Standards, Best Practices and approach to software engineering leadership.
• Monitoring and responding to the levels of productivity and quality across delivery teams and ensuring adherence to Engineering Software Standards and Best Practices.
• Managing resource levels and availability for delivery teams.
• Providing architectural design and development direction when required by the business.
• Working with other Software Managers to provide a consistent approach to software engineering leadership.
• Keeping up to date with technical advances to drive innovation.

You Will Bring:

• Proven track record in a technical leadership role with strong commercial experience.
• Proven experience of leading and managing fast-paced teams.
• Strong track record in designing and building quality software solutions.
• In-depth knowledge of external software development principles and best practices.
• Ability to define internal software development principles and best practices.
• Extensive development experience and in-depth knowledge in multiple core areas such as C# & Azure.
• Experience in one or more database technologies (e.g. SQL, non-relational) including data modelling and performance.
• An in-depth understanding of automated testing methods and their application.
• Proven strong ability to analyse and solve technical problems.
• Independent and self‑motivated in driving development and technical process improvement.
• Effective listener, mentor and coach.
• Ability to clearly articulate ideas to target audience.
• Ability to collaborate with other senior members of the organisation and stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools (e.g. TFS, Azure DevOps or Jira).
• Proven experience of working with release management processes (CI/CD) and configuration of environments.
• Good understanding of the use of source control.