Applications Manager IT

 

Recruiter:

NETWORK IT BRUMA

Job Ref:

ITE002991/JDr

Date posted:

Friday, January 22, 2021

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

1000000


SUMMARY:
An experienced Applications Manager to take ownership of the Applications Support function for the African region. A strategic and tactical role that will look at operating effectiveness as well as longer term planning to ensure the most value is extracted from the applications landscape.

POSITION INFO:

Essential Functions Responsibilities

 

  • The fundamental task of the application manager is determining whether the computer systems in the company are sufficient for their business requirements.
  • Leading the analysis and design phase of all the digital transformation projects
  • Collaborate with architects, developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
  • Develop and maintain strong working relationships with key customers at all levels to understand the goals, drivers and processes of the business units within the organization.
  • Participate in strategic planning sessions with senior management and identify initiatives aimed at addressing the Application needs of ERG Africa.
  • Influence business decisions, processes and systems to achieve strategic goals
  • Develop tactical plans and budget requirements that support the strategic objectives
  • Ensure the applications landscape and underlying technologies remain current, in order to avoid technical risk and maximize supplier investment into applications
  • Investigate and compare new technologies and applications to assess potential added value.
  • Implement, manage and comply with the IT Governance framework
  • Prepare and review maintenance and service contracts with external suppliers.
  • Actively partake in and contribute towards the longer-term architectural and system roadmap, ensure changes introduced hold true to the roadmap;

 

Qualifications & Experience

  • An applicable tertiary B-degree a must.
  • 5 years’ applicable experience
  • Background in Microsoft stack product sets that form the underlying structures of most applications in ERG
  • Experience in managing applications in an enterprise environment
  • Experience in managing an ERP environment
  • Project management
  • ITIL certification
  • Microsoft Azure experience
  • Architectural understanding of cloud-based applications/services
  • Mining Sector-based experience
  • Business analyst certification

 

Skills and Competencies

  • Good interpersonal and communication skills;
  • Customer centricity and focus;
  • Facilitating change and change management;
  • Solid organizations and time management skills
  • Strong Management and Leadership skills;
  • Multitasking and project management skills; and
  • Strong analytical thinking/skills.
  • Mining applications and operations technology


 

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