Enterprise Solution Manager _ Gauteng _ Pretoria

Purpose of the Position:

Planning, managing, and tracking the activity across Program Office, New and Old Application Services Providers, Software Quality, and Enterprise Architecture

Responsibilities/Tasks:

Provides leadership and direction within enterprise systems management and is responsible for the design, implementation, and management of the enterprise systems management infrastructure.

Ensuring the ability to meet service level requirements in the areas of network management, platform management, application management, event management, patch management, configuration management, capacity management, enterprise systems monitoring, automation, integration, and asset management.

• Planning and Design
  • Facilitate technical understanding of new requirements.
  • Coordinate the identification of affected artifacts, including test script changes, deployment script changes, DB changes, and test tool changes.
  • Estimate development effort with team members.
  • Provide effort and schedule estimations for release planning purposes.
• Code Development & Releases
  • Ensure the development environments adhere to applicable standards and processes.
  • Allocate development work to team members with due consideration of skill levels, work preferences, and personal development goals.
  • Implement functionality based on new requirements, ECPs, or bugs.
  • Monitor the progress of the developers in order to meet release commitments.
  • Ensure an update to the Dev regression pack takes place.
  • Ensure that Dev and QA regression packs are run on code changes before a release.
  • Ensure tag and release of new code takes place.
  • Ensure documentation is updated and placed under configuration control.
• Team Support and Development
  • Facilitate the definition and implementation of discipline/standards in collaboration with the developers and development Team Leads.
  • Remove impediments and coordinate the solving of technical problems.
  • Provide inputs when required on technology and tool selection
  • Identify and propose training requirements for the team.
• Larger program integration and support
  • Work with team leads to define, maintain and improve cross-program and cross-discipline processes and standards.
  • Report on team activities and progress against program expectations as per reporting schedule or on request.
  • Represent team interests in program-level decision-making.
  • Highlight schedule, technical, resources, and other risks as soon as they become known.

Minimum requirements

• Tertiary qualification in Information Sciences or Engineering
• At least 10 to 12 years of related experience.
• At least 8 years of development experience, of which at least 5 years as manager.
• Proven experience in the application deployment and continuous improvement of industry standards, processes, and tools.
• Thorough understanding and experience of SDLC processes applicable to large-scale software development scenarios.

Specific Skills and Knowledge Requirements

• Experience with the following technologies:
  • Microsoft and Python development environments an advantage
  • Experience with an application server (IBM Websphere - preferable)
  • Integration experience with solutions containing Enterprise Service Bus architecture (IBM MQ Series)
  • Knowledge of XML Schema
  • SOA experience
• Good communication skills (verbal and written).
• Good relationship skills.
• Good conflict management skills.

Personal Profile

• Leadership and people management abilities – manage, coordinate, monitor, mentor.
• Open and approachable, but firm.
• Mature technologist and depth of experience to grasp issues quickly and make educated, critical judgments in the absence of complete information.
• Multi-functional software development skills, leadership, and participation.
• Good planning abilities.
• Ability to switch between big picture thinking and discussing/defining details at a deeper technical level.