System Development Manager

System Development Manager – Hybrid Role

An opportunity for a System Development Manager has become available within a prominent fresh food producer on the south coast.

The purpose of the role is to evaluate, project manage and implement the appropriate business systems. This will include improving and developing the businesses core IT systems and applications and incorporating new technology. Also, managing the backend SQL databases to ensure data across the company remains consistent, accurate, secure, and appropriate information is available to all users.

If you have strong project management skills, success in implementing change and have worked in a similar role managing critical business systems, please apply.

The role attracts a competitive package including:

£45-52k Salary

Company Laptop

Mobile Phone

Pension (5% & 5%)

Private Healthcare

Life Assurance

25 days holiday

Key Responsibilities

• Project Manage the migration of current Navision programme to Business Central Cloud
• Evaluate and implement appropriate business systems architecture
• Effectively manage, develop and maintain the business core systems & applications.
• Design and implementation of tables, stored procedures, functions, models, security and jobs within all SQL applications
• Manage Business Intelligence Analyst
• Conduct system testing and facilitate user acceptance testing (UAT) of developed functionality and ensure defined business requirements are satisfied.
• Query performance tuning and optimisations
• Provide 3^rd party developers and testers with realistic test data, providing advice on improvements, design and programming best practice.
• Recovering from transactional data loss
• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions
• Monitor database performance & provide statistics and performance data to teams on a regular basis
• Provide out of hours support for business-critical processes when required
• Facilitate and provide training to the user base on an ad-hoc basis.
• Support users in the use of the company’s core systems/and applications providing training and advice.

Skills & Experiences

• Strong project management skills with effective results within system development environment
• Proven success in implementing system change
• Substantial experience of working in a similar role managing and developing critical business systems and applications ideally covering most of following technology and systems development areas:
• Migration to Business Central 365 Cloud
• Strong MS SQL Server (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS)
• Database Architecture and Data Modelling
• TSQL, Power Query & Powershell
• Data Warehousing (WhereScape)
• Excel and advanced formulas
• VBA or similar scripting knowledge
• Management of an organisation’s data and metadata
• Organise, specify and model new requirements to existing applications that are reliable and predictable.
• Ability to design technical solutions based upon business requirements.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities.
• Ability to learn and quickly respond to a rapidly changing business environment

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