上海招聘

Department: Wellington College China Central Office 

Supervisor: Director of IT

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Product management for educational software applications and technology solutions

· Understand our schools’ academic and non-academic users’ technology needs and software requirements.

· Collect and synthesize inputs from school academic and non-academic teams, as well as from industry groups to lead functionality and application direction.

· Assess all individual user requirements and their feasibility to be supported.

· Prioritise functionalities, build and communicate a clear product vision, and develop a long-term product roadmap and strategy.

· Own product specifications, requirements, and release plans, and serve as the key decision maker for defining supported functionalities.

· Identify opportunities for enhancing users’ work efficiency via technology solutions.

· Ensure end user focus for all developed applications leading to a bread adoption in all our schools and high user satisfaction evaluations.

· Lead cross-functional end-user teams to align requirements across multiple schools and to ensure user-centric development as well as effective practical usage.

· Create training materials and lead training of applications team and school IT professionals who will provide long-term support to end users.

2. Software development management and technology architecture

· Lead a technology team to produce world-class educational technology solutions driven by education expertise and technology vision.

· Create and oversee an innovative technology architecture that consistently spans all in-house developed applications.

· Continuously introduce latest technology advances to foster outstanding teaching, learning, and school management.

· Manage third-party designers and developers, and take ownership of the overall vendor relationship, incl. all technical, commercial and administrational aspects.

· Build and grow over time our own in-house technology development team, including analysts, designers and developers to build and support practical, user-friendly educational software solutions.

· Provide technical guidance and coaching to the development team.

· Foster a culture of excellence, end-user focus, innovation and continuous improvement.

· Serve as the lead architect of modern web-based and mobile technology solutions.

· Create transparent documentation for overall technology architecture, incl. all related data interfaces.

· Enforce a consistent coding standard and strict information security practices.

· Ensure diligent testing and professional deployment for all new applications.

· Integrate our custom applications into our existing technology landscape by building interfaces with other school systems.

· Oversee progress of development team to ensure consistency with initial design and user needs.

· Approve final product before initial launch and all future updates.

· Work with CO IT systems and applications teams to deploy and implement all applications across multiple schools.

· Manage all activities of the CO IT software development group.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Bachelor's degree or above

Major: Computer Science, Information Technology or related major

Language: Fluent in English and Chinese

Working experience: A minimum of 10-year relevant experience   

Expertise:

· Experience in leading software development projects, especially for web-based and native mobile solutions.

· Experience in leading a technology/development team of 5-10 engineers.

· Experience in application product management with full responsibility of product features, roadmap and end user communication.

· Experience in the education industry is a plus.

· Familiar with a variety of modern technology frameworks, standards, databases and programming languages, preferably PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, vue.js, .net, AzureSQL, etc.

· Strong ability to translate business needs into technical requirements.

  · Excellent written and verbal communications skills in both English and Chinese

Preferred aptitudes:

· Structured, methodical, analytcal and organised

· Self-reliant, hardworking, with a strong drive to achieve results.

· International and bilingual school working experience is a plus

· Cross-cultural working experience is preferred

· Passion for the education industry

· Track record of solving complex problems, strategic thinking and delivering significant impact

· Highest personal integrity, accountability and credibility 

Wellington College China represents the marriage of traditional values and progressive education. Our Wellington values of Courage, Kindness, Responsibility, Respect and Integrity are as pertinent today as they were more than 150 years ago when Wellington College was founded.
Our vision is to inspire pupils to become intellectual, independent, individual and inclusive: our Wellington identity. This will be based on a model of holistic education and pastoral provision that establishes the values and knowledge needed to be an effective global citizen. We aim to prepare pupils for success during and beyond life at the College by creating a caring, learning community that develops well-rounded individuals with strong values and the skills and identity to thrive in an ever-changing world.
Wellington College China currently comprises colleges located in Tianjin, Shanghai and Hangzhou. Together they serve approximately 3000 pupils. The colleges are:
Wellington College International Tianjin
Wellington College International Shanghai
Wellington College International Hangzhou
Huili School Shanghai
Huili School Hangzhou
Huili Nursery Shanghai
Huili Nursery Hangzhou
Wellington College China is committed to making professional learning and personal development central to its ethos and approach. Wellington College China fully recognises its responsibilities for safeguarding children. Our safeguarding policy applies to all staff, governors and volunteers working in the school.