IT Executive

SUMMARY:
Join our client's team as a IT Executive.  With flexible working, a high work-life balance, and a dynamic team, this is the opportunity you've been waiting for!

Onsite - Westville Durban

POSITION INFO:
Education/Qualification Needed:

• Degree in Information System / Computer Science / Engineering
• Software development background
• At least 10 years of enterprise level software delivery experience
• At least 5 years of experience in managing agile delivery teams
• At least 5 year of experience in managing operations
• Financial Services experience is an advantage

• Vast experience in IT delivery and operations management
• Working knowledge of software engineering best practices and frameworks
• Strong knowledge of software methodologies, tools and processes
• Strong knowledge of IT service management and ITIL practices
• Technical background and willingness to work agnostically
• Stakeholder management experience
• Strong decision-making capability
• Ability to see the bigger picture
• Ability to align with Company/Business strategy
• Systems thinking
• Excellent communication and influencing skills

• Provide leadership and guidance to development and operations teams to ensure agreed availability, supportability, and operational capability for all applications in the company landscape.
• Manage service across platforms, multiple channels and services to ensure service availability, performance and process maturity.
• Proactively identify platform enhancements (including non-functional), lead business case approval process, facilitate communication of roadmaps and ensure stakeholder engagement.
• Build and maintain a relationship network with internal and external key stakeholders.
• Define, drive and adhere to adoption of platform principles / standards / governance.
• Maintain an understanding of the current and emerging company strategy, business plans that the platform needs to enable.
• Share knowledge and expertise to support business and IT change.
• Contribute to concept documents / business cases / ROI proposals in relation to infrastructure enhancements.
• Review and approve estimation and impact assessment activities to support capacity and capability planning as well as key system documentation.
• Define target IT Operations model, drive transformation to reach the target and govern adherence.

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