Application Support Manager

Our client in the finance sector is in need of an Application Support Manager to look after a team of Analysts. The role requires 3 days per week in the office in Hampshire.

This role would suit someone with approximately 8 years experience in application support, various tech stacks. As this is a Lead role our client would need a minimum of 2 years demonstrable experience of leading a team from a day-to-day perspective, as well as appraisals and performance.

Key requirements include:

• Lead and inspire cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, high-quality software and services within a scaled agile framework.
• Own and oversee all aspects of software development - from architecture and design through to build, test, deployment, and support.
• Drive best practices in DevOps, continuous delivery, test automation (TDD/BDD), and cloud-native development.
• Provide architectural direction on Java-based microservices, RESTful APIs, and event-driven systems.
• Oversee risk, compliance, and operational excellence to support delivery in a regulated environment.

Technical experience needed (or similar):

• Python, Java.
• Spring, Cucumber, Drools, Spark .
• Gradle, Jenkins.
• Ansible, Terraform.
• AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, AWS EMR (Elastic MapReduce), AWS Networking, VPC, DynamoDB.
• DB2, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle.
• Linux, Mainframe (Legacy computing platform).
• Containers (Kubernetes).
• Alerting and Monitoring (CloudWatch, Prometheus, etc.).

Due to the regulatory nature of the business our client cannot offer sponsorship at this time and all candidates must have a valid right to work in the UK.