Publishing client seeks an experiencedDevelopment Manager to lead its team through a technology transformation. Theideal candidate will possess: experience architecting and developing a majorwebsite; a desire to do hands-on development; knowledge of open-source webtechnologies; a solid track record of delivering large projects on-time andon-budget; and experience managing a distributed team across time-zones.
The role will require international travelto other Company offices.Keyaccountabilities
· Taking the lead on architecting a platform that willbe capable of serving multiple websites
· Leading the transition from Publishing client’scurrent technology stack to a new technology stack
· Architecting solutions for Publishing client
· Hands-on developing
· Providing technical analysis of solutions proposedand provided by vendors
· Managing a team of developers located in New York and London
· Working with a team that includes external vendors andoutsourced staff
· Evaluating and recommending new technologies todeliver business value
· Providing input to IT strategy
· Shaping of IT standards
· Professional and personal development of staff
· Management of departmental and project budgets
· Managing supplier relationships and contracts
Decisionrights
· Recruitment
· Structure of team
· Allocation of resources
· Spend within authorized levels and cost canters
· Selection of solutions in adherence to the strategy
· Defining technical solutions
· “Right-sourcing” of solutions provided
Performancemeasures
· Quality of solutions delivered (including boththe effectiveness of the technical solution and the value to the business)
· Quality of advice offered to management and peers.
· Quality of communications with colleagues and GroupIT management
· Quality of communications with customers (includingthe degree to which issues raised by business customers are directed to yourmanager)
· Quality of support offered by the department
· Adherence to departmental and project budgets
· Adherence of operational systems to agreed levels ofperformance and reliability
· Quality of all aspects of the technical architecture(including documentation, code and database design)
· Team performance
Skills and capabilities profile
Item
Essential
Desirable
Education and training
· Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
· Numerate
· Master’s degree or higher
Previous work experience
· 7 or more years in a managing a development team
· Architecting a platform solution for a major website
· Experience with a major CMS deployment
· Successful management of key suppliers
· Experience in managing a technology stack migration
· Publishing or media background
Knowledge
· Open-source technology, specifically PHP, MySQL, Linux and Apache
· Experience with ColdFusion highly desirable
Personal attributes and skills
· Superb leadership and team building skills
· Good negotiating skills
· Outstanding clarity of thought, ability to analyse business problems or opportunities and provide effective solutions
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
· Good spoken and written English.
· Capacity and willingness to perform duties with initiative and resourcefulness
· Customer focused and results oriented
· Ability to function in a collaborative environment; sensitivity to others; high integrity and intelligence; excellent judgment.
· Commercially aware
· Innovative
· Enjoy making things work and having fun
Will Mechem
(646)784-0795
willm @ wjtsearch.com
wmechem @ gmail.com
www.wjtsearch.com
www.linkedin.com/in/wmechem
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