# IT Development Manager

> JUST ONE | Recruitment & Executive Search agency · Athens, Greece (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-05

**Salary:** EUR 70,000–85,000

**Workplace:** hybrid

## Description

For a leading multinational insurance group.

**Responsibilities**

-   Own end-to-end software delivery, from design and development through testing, deployment, and post-go-live support.
-   Ensure adherence to SDLC standards and drive continuous improvement in software quality, development processes, and productivity.
-   Manage development backlogs, estimations, KPIs, and delivery performance using Jira and other relevant tools.
-   Ensure architectural and design alignment across applications in collaboration with IT Architecture, Delivery, and Solution Design teams.
-   Drive cloud-first development, modern API design, CI/CD adoption, and DevOps practices across critical applications.
-   Manage technical debt and ensure alignment with the overall IT strategy and technology roadmap.
-   Embed security-by-design and compliance-by-design across all software development activities.
-   Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory and security requirements, including DORA, GDPR, the EU AI Act, and Solvency II IT requirements.
-   Support disaster recovery, business continuity, audit readiness, and operational resilience across the application landscape.
-   Plan and prioritize development workloads across BAU and strategic projects, ensuring effective allocation of internal and external resources.
-   Provide delivery estimates, timelines, capacity planning, budget input, and ongoing monitoring of development activities.
-   Report delivery progress, risks, KPIs, and key issues to senior management and relevant governance committees.
-   Ensure comprehensive technical documentation, API catalogues, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer processes are maintained.
-   Build and develop high-performing technical teams through clear objectives, performance management, mentoring, succession planning, and targeted training.
-   Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing while ensuring business continuity and reducing key-person dependencies.

## Requirements

-   Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Informatics or a related quantitative field. Master's degree (MSc/MBA) is a strong plus.
-   Minimum 8 years of experience in software engineering, with at least 4 years managing development teams (multiple squads / team leaders).
-   Proven track record of leading delivery of large, mission-critical applications, ideally in insurance, banking or financial services.
-   Experience managing both legacy modernization (e.g., Cobol, mainframe-style core systems, large Oracle databases) and modern stacks (.NET, web/mobile, APIs, cloud).
-   Demonstrable experience driving cloud transformation, CI/CD and DevOps adoption.
-   Strong command of .NET / C#, web technologies (Angular/React/React Native), REST APIs, microservices and event-driven architectures.
-   Strong Skills Oracle PL/SQL and familiarity with core insurance systems will be considered a plus.
-   Hands-on understanding of Azure (or equivalent cloud), CI/CD pipelines, Git, containerization and infrastructure-as-code.
-   Ability to inspire and develop senior engineers and team leaders.
-   Excellent organizational, planning and prioritization skills under multiple competing demands.
-   Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
-   Excellent communication skills, able to engage with executives, business owners, auditors and technical teams.
-   Fluency in Greek and English (written and spoken).

## Benefits

-   Annual Gross Compensation: Base Salary €70.000 - €85.000
-   Career development and growth opportunities

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