Senior Exams System Development Manager

Pay Band: 7

Country/Location: Beijing, China

Department: Exams

Contract Type: Fixed term contract (2 years)

Closing Date: Sunday, 21 July 2024- 23:59 China Time (GMT +8)

Role Purpose:

• Overall manage the development resource in China Exams systems team.

• Define the strategy of in-house development, own the architecture design for Exams Solutions China provided, be the critical role of system solution design.

• The post holder is the key person to manage the tech team regarding resource, delivery quality and overall solutions design.

Accountabilities:

• Be fully responsible for overall development team tasks arrangement and the quality of implementation process

• Be responsible for holistic system solutions and architecture for Exams Systems solutions, make sure the solutions are reasonbale designed, and implemented with the clear timeline by promised

• Be one good IT leader to Manage the exams system development team (more than 10 people) to implement the industry best practices based on Agile methodology

• Define the system development strategy, standards, team KPIs and priorities, cooperation mechasims with product managers, architecture and system maintenance team

• Ensure the technology used in the development team is updated and aligned with the hight edge of industry practices

• Ability to talk with global team for solution design, and well manage the development team to adopt the agile change with clear commitment and timeline.

Role specific knowledge and experience:

• Experience developing web/windows applications on .Net platform, Angular, VUE & SQL server.

• Experience in leading architecture and solution design for product.

• Experience of people management

• Proven record of global IT project management

Role specific skills:

• Refer to function/job family skills framework where applicable.

• Web application and Windows application development on .Net platform, Angular, VUE and another JS frameworks.

• Database management & development

• Cloud solution design

• Micro-service and Domain Driven Development practice

• IT Project management skills

• Foundation of ITIL/COBIT

• Agile and Lean thinking

Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

• Language:

o English B2 (Aptis, IELTS 6 or equivalent)

o Chinese C1 ( HSK 5 or equivalent)

• Condition of Employment:

Locally Recruited

Applications are welcomed from candidates currently in this location with a natural right to work.

Applications are also welcomed from candidates currently based in other British Council country offices. However, please note candidates must have a natural right to work in the country, on a permanent basis, as immigration clearance and/or on-going visa support is not provided by the British Council for this role. Relocation support is also not provided.

Benefits:

• Annual Leaves (on a pro-rata basis if the service period is less than one full year); public holidays

• Statutory benefits: national social insurance benefits and housing fund

• Other benefits: commercial insurance package including accidental insurance, life insurance, and supplementary medical insurance

• 13th month salary: staff who pass the probation and work for minimum of 6 months in a year will be entitled to annual bonus in December

• Performance-related pay: paid annually according to relevant performance review scheme

• Professional development opportunities