Software Development Manager

Posting date:	29 December 2025
Salary:	£120,000.0 to £150,000.0 per year
Additional salary information:	120-150k + bonus
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	28 January 2026
Location:	City of London, London, EC2V 6DN
Remote working:	Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week
Company:	Hays Specialist Recruitment
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	4756580_1767013620

Summary

As a Software Development Manager, you will lead the Global Content Delivery team. Ideally, having previous experience of working in Financial Services.

This is a "Player/Coach" role, where you will both lead and contribute hands-on to the overall success of the team.

The Software Development Manager will be responsible for transforming and optimising the delivery of software applications and data solutions,
leading a highly motivated team to build innovative, scalable, and resilient software and data solutions that empower the organisation.

• Manage partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and IT to develop and promote content delivery data solutions.
• Translates stakeholder needs into technical solutions.
• As a player coach, you will impact the product, architecture, software design and engineering. With a focus on intuitive front-end creation, robust backend
  Frameworks and strong data design
• Lead, a globally dispersed team
• Experience with AWS, Databricks, DBT, PySpark, React, JavaScript Terraform.
• Experience with AI/ML/Gen AI/LLM

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