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Software Development Manager, Permanent Job, Isle of Man

Permanent
Information Technology
£50,000 +
PP22566

Description

Lead a talented development team and deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality software that powers global mobile connectivity.

The Role

A pivotal management role overseeing software delivery, technical strategy, and team performance across the development function.


  • Plan and coordinate development activities across the team, ensuring alignment with roadmap and business priorities

  • Lead or contribute to product management including roadmap planning, feature prioritisation, and requirement analysis

  • Collaborate with CTO, architects, and senior engineers on system design and technical strategy

  • Oversee software development practices to ensure robust, scalable, and secure solutions

  • Maintain DevOps best practices including version control, release management, testing, traceability, and documentation

  • Ensure high standards of code quality, reliability, performance, and operational resilience

  • Drive Agile and Scrum practices across the development team

  • Lead or support Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, stand ups, reviews, and retrospectives

  • Continuously improve team velocity, predictability, and quality of delivery

  • Line manage developers providing coaching, mentoring, and performance feedback

  • Support individual growth through development plans, training, and career progression

  • Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-trust team environment

  • Support recruitment, onboarding, and scaling of the development team

  • Act as interface between engineering, product, operations, and leadership teams

  • Support customer and partner integrations and incident management where required

  • Participate in a remunerated 24 x 7 emergency on-call rota when required


About You

You are a hands on and experienced development manager who combines technical expertise with strong leadership and delivery focus.


  • Proven experience as a Development Manager, Engineering Manager, or Technical Lead

  • Solid understanding of API driven architectures, distributed systems, and microservices

  • Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments with hands on leadership of Agile teams

  • Strong leadership skills, calm, decisive, and supportive

  • Self-motivated, proactive, and delivery focused

  • Excellent communication skills, able to bridge technical and non-technical audiences

  • Values aligned with ambitious, innovative, dependable, and supportive culture

  • Comfortable managing remote or distributed teams

  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

  • Familiarity with .NET/C#, cloud platforms, containerisation, and CI/CD pipelines is desirable

  • Experience with mission-critical, high availability systems is desirable

  • Relevant Agile or technical certifications are desirable



The Reward


  • Isle of Man Based

  • Competitive salary based on experience

  • Influence over technical direction and team culture

  • Supportive, collaborative, and highly skilled technical environment

  • Ongoing professional development and leadership growth opportunities