Software Engineering Team Manager

The DVSA (Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency), a UK government executive agency responsible for improving road safety across Great Britain, is one of Pearson Assessment's first clients. They currently create and deliver their exams using a custom test driver that is built and maintained by a 3rd party partner. The Manager of Product Engineering for our Test Delivery - DVSA, you will have the opportunity to provide tactical, strategic and technical leadership for the software development groups that support this critical business client and domain. This role requires business and technical skills to deliver high-quality software products. This position reports to a Director of Product Engineering.

The Manager of Product Engineering for Test Delivery - DVSA will:

Through coordinating the work of Architects, Developers, Business Systems Analysts, and Project Managers, you will provide effective management to ensure products and services meet the requirements and expectations of the DVSA client. In this role you regularly coordinate with the test driver vendor, Pearson Assessment's Cyber Security team, Software Project Management, Software Quality Assurance and Pearson Assessment's DVSA Program Management. You will represent the team's work to important internal stakeholder groups, as well as client stakeholders. You will also be an escalation point for issues, technical decisions, and project prioritization.

• Represent team capacity and work with the client to schedule prioritized projects.

• Understand the vendor's resource capacity and formulate strategies to meet the client's needs.

• Engage with other teams (i.e. Cyber Security) to ensure successful coordination of project dependencies.

• Collaborate with Project Managers to drive work to successful completion.

• Provide leadership around agile development processes and emerging trends in engineering best practices

• Work with Vendor's leadership to impose procedures on process initiatives to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the team.

• Engage in prioritization process both Cyber Security and client's backlog of feature work.