About us :

The ParentPay Group is on a mission to attract, engage & develop the best talent across the globe. We deliver online payments, management information systems, income management, parental engagement and school catering solutions to over 27,000 schools and caterers across the UK, the Netherlands and Germany.

ParentPay recently acquired ESS, a leading provider of management information system and related software for the education sector. Through the acquisition of ESS, ParentPay intends to bring together two high-quality and complimentary businesses in the education software market.

As the largest provider of education management software in the UK, we influence the lives of over one million people every day. Our databases are used in more than 19,000 schools. Our aim is to empower educators, parents and learners to deliver the best school and learning outcomes possible. We do this with a range of web and mobile (iOS, Android) products which are built on the SIMS management information system.

Role overview :

- Hands on experience of .NET Core, React, SQL and Azure.

- 15+ Years of Experience with leading industry standard practices for software development and cloud infra such as DDD, TDD and deployment patterns (blue/green).

- Provide hands on technical leadership to the teams, resolve tech queries, ensure that the teams follow architectural principles/guidelines overall tech standards.

- Evaluate and improve the common platform components to help accelerate the programme.

- Actively participate in architectural governance forums such as centre of excellence (CoE) and technical guilds. Furthermore, ensure that decisions made are followed through within the teams.

- Work collaboratively with the Group Director of Technology, Head of Technology and fellow architects to influence and steer technical leads as well as their teams towards pragmatic decisions as well as communicate team progress.

- Undertake R&D, prototype new approaches, technologies, techniques and ensure knowledge sharing to streams.

About you :

- Driving outcomes : focuses on results and desired outcomes and how best to achieve. Able to execute plans through to action. Persistent to complete tasks and a strong commitment to take action that moves things along to ensure delivery of objectives.

- Ownership & accountability : takes personal accountability and ownership for their work. This includes personal follow through, making and defending difficult decisions and trade-offs, removing blockers, driving collective progress.

- Continuous Improvement : advances by ongoing, incremental improvement through continuous learning, pair-programming, questioning the status quo and trying out creative and novel ideas. Shows curiosity and has a keen interest to drive learning for themselves and others.

- Pragmatic in approach, understanding that software and its architecture are fundamentally about trade-offs. What works today may not work tomorrow, evolutionary architecture is the goal.

- Truly full stack, from UI, Backend, DB, CI/CD to cloud infrastructure and IaC.

- Ability to work in a team of very experienced individuals, understands that egos are not productive, ability to listen and provide objective feedback.

- A lot more focus should be on leading by example and mentoring across all the teams to ensure that the team are successful within their remit.

Take the next step in your career by joining our fun and dynamic group at the top of our game!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications. The ParentPay Group is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to promoting equality, valuing diversity and working inclusively.