IT Manager

SUMMARY:
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.

POSITION INFO:

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 in order to coordinate and document development and testing
-Review and quality assure deliverables in order 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        
-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 in order to ensure that expectations are managed
-Participate and contribute to a culture which builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional client service
-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                                                                
-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 on-going development, training and personal growth
-Effectively manage performance within the team in order 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 development experience
-5 years'' management experience
-Relevant IT qualification
-Relevant post graduate IT qualification

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