Matillion is data transformation for cloud data warehouses. In addition to award-winning, highly rated products, we are proud to have highly rated employee reviews on Glassdoor.

Matillion is dual-headquartered in Manchester, UK and Denver, Colorado and we are expanding teams globally across all functions.

As a company, our core values drive our processes. We have a bias for action, we innovate and demand quality, we work with integrity, we are confident without arrogance, customer obsessed and care about our people and our communities. We are looking for people to join Matillion who share our integrity, drive and passion.

The Development Manager role is to provide a central, autonomous voice for the delivery of a key transformation project and support a small but fundamental team of high performing individual contributors. 

The Development Manager is principally a software developer and will have extensive experience in this role, but has responsibility for the smooth running of a mixed skill engineering team and focuses on the coaching and development of the team leaders along with the day to day ownership of the project deliverables.

Decision making is a collaborative process and whilst ultimate accountability is held by the development manager, progress will be made through consultation, influence and agreement. Co-ordinating the deliverables, designing organisational structure and engaging with the rest of Matillion to promote and communicate project objectives and status.

What you will be doing:

Team Management

• Team Management of high performing individual contributors through mentorship and coaching.
• Establish recruiting needs within the team to ensure balance of upcoming talent and experience
• Perform effective one-to-ones with direct reports and supporting with regular, effective one-to-one discussions across the development team
• Manage team performance and identify appropriate controls and measures for employee engagement
• Set department-wide goals and objectives and work with team leaders to cascade those goals to individual contributors

Software Development

• Working with product management to drive engineering output aligned with our roadmap
• Solve almost any type of problem with little supervision
• Provide engineering options, with unbiased pros and cons to meet problems shared by the business
• Work closely with members of the business teams to ensure customer-centric development of features
• Actively contribute to the process of continual improvement, with regard to self, team and systems

Mentorship

• Technical Mentorship
• Developing new skills within the team through coaching and delegation
• Identifying and feeding back areas of improvement and strengths and being knowledgeable about the team
• Encouraging others to partake in technical discussions and increasing team inquisitiveness
• Advise and encourage both on the job development and external development opportunities
• Explain, demonstrate and engage fellow team members in ‘doing the right thing’ guided by the values of Matillion
• Facilitating learning lunches, release planning and debrief sessions
• Holding retrospectives and identifying themes for change or improvement

Bug and Feature Triage

• To be an escalation point for integration-related bugs, help understand their root cause, possible solutions and communicate the impact of their resolution
• The prompt prioritisation and processing by the team of incoming bugs according to strategy
• Ensuring responsive support to the customer-facing colleagues
• Status reporting back to customer-facing colleagues
• Recognition of problems and recasting difficult-to-solve problems in order to find unique and innovative solutions

What we are looking for

• Demonstrable Java programming ability with in-depth understanding of underpinning techniques
• Proven ability of tackling challenging projects
• Demonstrable knowledge of Databases and query languages (SQL)
• Experience in full software development life cycle from design to deployment using agile methodologies such as Kanban and Scrum
• Extensive architecture and software design skills
• Extensive SAAS delivery experience
• Experience leading an agile team in a technology company
• Experience in hiring a development team

Find out more about Matillion and our core company values.

We are keen to hear from prospective employees, so please apply and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch!