Lead Software Engineer
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
IRIS Software Group is a leading global provider of mission critical software and services and one of UK’s largest privately held software companies.
We help organisations to make better business decisions by developing integrated software solutions to minimise admin, make business processes more efficient and give more time to do what’s valued.
We started 45 years ago with accountancy software and have evolved to be trusted by more than 100,000 customers in 135 countries around the world. We invest heavily in development using the latest processes and technologies, driven by our Indian and Romanian Product Development Centres to build the next generation of cloud-based accountancy, HR and education solutions.
Our global and domestic payroll and HR solutions are used nearly five million employees. Almost one million UK employees are managed by our HR solutions, and one in eight UK employees are paid through IRIS payroll solutions. We are the largest third-party online tax filer with UK Government, and we are used by 54 of the top 100 US and 91 of the top 100 UK accountancy firms. We also serve over 13,000 schools and academies, and almost five million UK families use our apps to connect to their child’s school.
In the last year, we have been awarded Technology Company of the Year in the UK Tech Awards; Employer of the Year in the Thames Valley Tech Awards; and the Americas Prime Award from the K2 Enterprise Awards. IRIS Education has been named Company of the Year at the UK National MAT Awards 2023, and crowned Company of the Year (more than 12m) in the Bett Awards 2023.
Purpose :
We are looking for an Agile Delivery Manager /Scrum master responsible for delivery of various software modules and integrations for the Education Every Portfolio, used by 1000’s of schools in the UK to manage HR, payroll and Compliance processes. Your primary focus will be orchestrating and optimizing the development, maintenance, and support of existing and new software and data integrations, ensuring high quality and performance to requests from client systems.
You will be a key part of an agile development and delivery teams that are responsible for all aspects of the ongoing software development from the initial specification, through to developing, test and launching.
Responsibilities :
- Facilitate agile ceremonies including sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos
- Own agile delivery artifacts including RAID management and dependency tracking for the teams
- Help create a culture based on high cooperation, sharing risks and encouraging growth
- Assist the product owners with keeping the backlogs groomed
- Ensure cross-team coordination
- Actively removing blockers and protecting the teams from outside interruptions and distractions
- Help define clear goals for the engineering delivery teams
- Appropriate resource to task allocation, estimation, and performance monitoring
- Use and reporting of key agile metrics and tools like Plandek to improve efficiencies
- Coach the team members to optimize agile delivery
- Promote and optimize agile delivery by seeking to continuously improve deployment frequently, reduce lead time and resolve incidents quickly.
Qualifications :
- BSC or equivalent in a software engineering or Project management discipline advantageous
- Additional qualifications in software security, delivery, or adjacent streams advantageous.
- Certified scrum master professional certification advantageous
- Microsoft Azure professional certification advantageous
Experience :
- You must have proven experience of being an Agile lead or playing the role of Scrum Master in a cross functional team
- Experience of delivering cloud solutions through CI / CD essential
- Understanding of Software delivery workflow tools e.g., JIRA, Azure pipelines
- Understanding of Software delivery workflow processes e.g., Change Advisory boards, Defect Triage.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong decision making and organizational
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to help solve complex problems
About IRIS
As one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.
IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.
Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child’s school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.
Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers’ businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.
It’s vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time.
That’s why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time – so they can focus on productivity and growth.
IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.
They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today.
We’re delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women.
These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.
IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do.
This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.
Why work for IRIS?
The Benefits
Developing your career
We believe in creating a culture of engagement and reward to develop your potential and offer long-term career success. We do this by:
Supporting our managers to be great leaders, providing inspirational management resources and offering dedicated management development training.
Rewarding individual excellence through dedicated initiatives and Employee Awards for demonstrating our values.
Offering regular training and development programmes tailored to each employee’s development needs and providing a commitment to a ‘learning culture’ which shares knowledge, best practice and our long-standing expertise between employees.
We’re committed to a culture of continuous improvement and listen to our employees via regular feedback sessions and employee engagement surveys.
Our employees love the colleagues they work with. We promote a positive environment where our people feel comfortable, make friends and support each other.
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