Job Title: Technical Delivery Manager – Digital Commerce

Salary: £65,300- £87,350

Location: Cambridge/Hybrid (minimum 2 days a week in office)

Contract: Permanent

We are looking for a strong Technical Delivery Manager to oversee delivery of new solutions, integrations and delivery managing ongoing improvements to the central Digital Commerce Platform and Service capabilities at Cambridge

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

Do you have a strong foundation in a software development or solutions delivery role? Can you lead a technical team and confidently deliver in challenging technical landscapes to tight deadlines? Are you comfortable bringing clarity, simplifying often complex problems and managing conflicting demands?

In this role

• be responsible for understanding technical requirements and the existing complex landscape
• have ownership of the end-to-end delivery of new capabilities and enhancements to existing services •
• contribute to the design of new integrations and solutions (technical and process) •
• take the technical lead in planning and delivery of a high profile and deadline driven pipeline of work •
• will work closely with cross functional technical teams and Enterprise Architects

About you

• 5+ years of software development experience ideally in mid to large enterprise technology contexts •
• experience leading teams in the design and delivery of technical solutions including micro service, API first architectures •
• experience managing code delivery and a clear understanding of best practice approaches, including automated code pipelines in a CI/CD continuous deployment context •
• have worked with Agile teams, on and offshore, bringing familiarity with common scaled Agile approaches (e.g. SAFe) and broad experience of development support tools (Jira, Confluence, Slack etc.,)
• a passion for exploring new technologies and specifications.

You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, be motivated, highly collaborative, a pragmatic problem solver, all with a great sense of humour

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 27^th March. Interviews are scheduled to take place during and shortly after it closes.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

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