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Pearson Software Engineering Manager - PHP in Manchester, United Kingdom
JOB TITLE: Software Development Manager
JOB TYPE: Full time
DIVISION: Pearson Assessment Services
LOCATION: Rotherham, Manchester, or London
About Pearson: Our purpose at Pearson is to help everyone achieve their potential through learning. At the heart of this is a commitment to sustainable practices and meaningful, measurable outcomes. We are the world’s leading learning company. Our ability to help people learn is built on our ability to grow with and adapt to a constantly evolving market. Our 18,000+ employees around the world in 70 countries are dedicated to creating digital-first, accessible, and sustainable learning resources that prepare tens of millions of people each year for a lifetime of learning.
About Pearson Assessment Services: The Pearson Assessment Services (PAS) team provides assessment services to the UK and international assessment markets, supporting government education departments with project management, operational delivery, and technical solutions. We are part of Pearson School Qualifications which supports the curriculum, qualifications, and assessments for students in the UK and globally, delivering exams to over 3.4 million students in over 80 countries annually.
About the job: The position is for a Development Manager to recruit and lead a PHP Laravel/VUE.js team working on large-scale assessment delivery application-based systems in AWS. Currently, we are in the middle of a large programme to build a new service to deliver a significant assessment contract that will process millions of exams a year. The successful candidate will manage their own team of PHP Laravel/VUE.js developers located in multiple locations.
About you: We expect you to have significant experience as a full-stack developer. You’ll have strong leadership and management skills with experience of managing agile delivery teams that develop solutions at pace to provide real end-user benefits. You will be a champion of Agile project delivery. You’ll also have experience of recruiting developers and building strong teams that deliver clean and efficient code.
Key Skills & Experience:
- Strong skills in PHP Laravel/VUE.js
- Gathering, evaluating, and prioritizing requests for product changes, enhancements, and new features
- Evaluating recent technologies that may be incorporated into future releases of the product
- Participating in all product activities related to release and iteration planning
- Tracking product roadmap and project issues to completion
- Providing technical guidance to the development team
- Working with senior leadership to execute long-term technology strategy
- Ensuring that the development team successfully delivers applications to production and provides post-deployment support
- Applying best practices for chosen development platform
- Understanding modern application architectures and how they can be applied, like Microservice / Service Oriented Architectures
- Ensuring that overall software architecture guidance in terms of best practice is followed by the team
- Recruitment of developers
- Managing training requirements for teams
- Mentoring and coaching team members
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects effectively
- Ability to identify and document business processes and requirements
- Experience with Docker and containers
- Designing, developing, and deploying cloud applications
- Experience with Terraform
- 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams
- Applying development methodologies like TDD, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code
Benefits:
- 25 Days annual leave (increasing by 1 day with every year of continuous service up to 30 days)
- Annual Bonus
- Private Pension plan scheme where we pay in double what you contribute, up to 16% depending on your age
- Life, private medical and dental care insurance options
- Stock/share purchase options
- Maternity, paternity, and family care leave as well as flexible working policies
- An employee wellbeing assistance programme
- Cycle to work program, volunteering days, gym membership concessions, along with retail and leisure discounts
Location: The role is aligned to our Manchester, Rotherham, or London offices. Our Rotherham office is located at Junction 1 of the M18. All our roles are hybrid working; our current policy requires our team to visit their base office no more than once a week, with the possibility of occasional business travel to other Pearson sites.
Diversity: At Pearson we value the power of an inclusive culture and a strong sense of belonging. We promote a culture where differences are embraced as strengths and opportunities are equal and accessible.
How to apply: Thank you for your interest in applying for a role at Pearson. Please submit an updated CV and cover letter (optional) in English. If you have any additional questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.
We look forward to receiving your application - Talent Acquisition Team
Job: TECHNOLOGY
Organization: Assessment & Qualifications
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