IT Development Manager

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

IT Development Manager: Financial Services Industry

Manage and guide a team of developers in their day-to-day activities in an efficient and professional manner, ensuring all team targets are met.

Responsibilities and work outputs

Internal Process:

• Analyse and solve problems identified by the business and stakeholders through the coordination of the development team
• Manage, monitor, and control the analysis, design, implementation, and execution of software development within the development team
• Extend and maintain existing and new software systems and services according to business needs.
• Continuously improve code quality, system design and processes
• Collaborate with the business to understand and implement complex requirements according to their needs
• Communicate with a broader team that includes analysts, engineers, and quality assurance testers to coordinate and document development and testing
• Review and quality assure deliverables to ensure quality standards are upheld
• Manage the development schedule and monitor, measure, control, and report on development progress including the quality status and unit testing results
• Ensure the development environment is suitable before development begins and is managed during the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Represent the development team in management, business, and inter-team meetings, such as Change Advisory Board (CAB)
• Collaborator between operations team and development team
• Be actively involved during high priority operational issues

Client:

• Provide authoritative expertise and advice to clients and stakeholders
• Build and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with clients and stakeholders
• Deliver on service level agreements made with clients and stakeholders to ensure that expectations are managed
• Participate and contribute to a culture which builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional client service

People:

• Create a positive work climate and culture to energise employees, give meaning to work, minimise work disruption and maximise employee productivity
• Demonstrate exemplary leadership behaviour, through personal involvement, commitment, and dedication in support of organisational values
• Assist with recruiting suitably qualified talent in line with Employment Equity principles and Momentum Metropolitan values
• Drive a culture that guides and directs best practice, fostering an environment of continuous learning, improvement, and cohesiveness
• Enable a learning and growth culture whereby information regarding successes, issues, trends, and ideas are actively shared between team members
• Assist in effective workforce planning practices to ensure that staffing requirements are accurately forecasted
• Identify employee growth and development needs and schedule interventions to enable ongoing development, training, and personal growth
• Effectively manage performance within the team to ensure business objectives are achieved
• Encourage innovation, change agility and collaboration within the team

Finance:

• Contribute to the development of area specific budgets to minimise expenditure, in alignment with operational plans
• Identify solutions to enhance cost effectiveness and increase operational efficiency
• Implement and provide input into governance processes, systems, and legislation within area of specialisation
• Escalate unresolved policy and governance compliance issues via appropriate channels for investigation and resolution purposes
• Provide input into the risk identification processes development and communicate recommendations in the appropriate forum

Experience and Qualifications:

• 5-7 years'' senior Java development experience
• 5 years'' management experience
• Relevant IT qualification
• Relevant post graduate IT qualification

Jino.swart@isilumko.co.za

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