Technical Programme Manager/ Technical Owner
Smart Pension Ltd, United Kingdom
Job Description
At Smart, we're a diverse team, made up of people from different backgrounds, experiences and skills. Our goal is to build great products to help people plan for their financial futures. We’re constantly developing new ideas to help people look after their pension schemes, in the UK and abroad. We’ve grown to a team of over 500 talented people, all dedicated to creating the best experience for our customers. Recently we made it onto Great Places to Work UK's Best Workplaces 2020 for medium-sized companies! If you think you can help us build a smarter future, come and work with us.
Do you enjoy working in a flexible, agile environment, with core values of transparency and continuous improvement with the desire to contribute, learn and grow, working on a platform that will improve people's lives 80 years from now? Pensions are a long-term project!
How we work
We focus on developing the best application for our customers and don't cut costs - quality is essential to everything we do, working software that always works! Alongside our phenomenal team we use many contemporary tools such as AWS, GitHub, Circle CI, New Relic, to name a few. Our approach to code is simple, keep it clean and ensure it has good test coverage. We don't ship code just to hit a deadline. At Smart Pension you will work collaboratively with experienced developers who will review your code and you will review their code, everyone is treated equal with a PR. This approach has helped us maintain at least 96% test coverage of our application meaning we can focus on features rather than bug fixing.
What you will do
As technical programme manager,
- Your focus will be on managing (infrastructure-) platform and (application-) security initiatives
- You will lead and coordinate multiple technical work streams across different teams and departments enabling design and architectural decisions
- The challenge is to work effectively with deeply technical people and non-technical stakeholders across different time zones
- Therefore, you need to have a technical background and mindset as it is crucial to understand the dependencies, risks and opportunities and required prioritisation of your projects across teams
- You will be working with business and software engineering teams to translate business objectives to technical requirements and vice versa, clarify scope and prioritise work
- You will facilitate and support the roadmap planning process, ensure that business goals are in met and at the same time champion your teams initiatives to the business
- Project management skills are a must, you may need to bridge between agile processes and traditional project management
- You will use and further enhance agile/lean metrics to increase confidence and predictability of your project deliveries in collaboration with our agile leads
- You will establish a reporting framework that will provide transparency of our running and upcoming initiatives
- You will proactively invest in continuous improvements in planning, communication and enable data-driven decisions
- You will help us to establish product management practices for platform considerations
As a team
Smart Pension is dynamic, exciting and diverse. Pension companies in the past have been slow to adapt to new technology and methods, but with Smart Pension we're changing the world of Pensions and to keep up with it, we look for people who are happy to operate in an ambiguous environment, people who bring ideas to the table but above all, people who deliver software. We look to move forward at pace and we are upbeat and passionate about making things successful!
We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce, is the most awesome workforce. Over 80% of our Engineering team volunteered their time to be coaches as the recent Rails Girls event - a free workshop aimed at making technology more approachable for women.
We are excited by new ideas, different ways of thinking, diverse backgrounds and approaches. We run hackathons where in 24 hours anyone can build and present new ways of thinking to the senior management team! Test new technologies, try new ideas - we're excited to get your ideas out to the world!
Smart Pension is committed to crafting an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.
We’re excited for you to make Smart Pension an even more awesome place to work!
At Smart, we're a diverse team, made up of people from different backgrounds, experiences and skills. Our goal is to build great products to help people plan for their financial futures. We’re constantly developing new ideas to help peopl