Software Development Manager

 

Recruiter:

Headhunters

Job Ref:

3720832450

Date posted:

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Location:

George, South Africa

Salary:

Negotiable


SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

OUR LEADING NATIONAL AND MUCH RESPECTED CLIENT, BASED IN GEORGE IS CURRENTLY LOOKING TO EMPLOY A SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER.

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PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:

  • Acts a technical owner of a set of applications. Managing relationships with Business Product owners and ensures that business objectives are reflected in the technical processes which they manage. Managing a team of Project managers, front and backend developers and QA support staff. Managing a set of projects (potentially across teams). Ensuring that the applications remain adaptive to emerging client needs in its lifetime.

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RESPONSIBILITIES:

Client Relationship Management and Networking:

  • Ensuring alignment to business requirements, and building trust with clients by displaying managerial competence
  • Understanding business requirements, business systems and process context, impact and risks
  • Participating in, planning/strategy sessions, reporting
  • Interfacing to other teams where required
  • Interfacing to external clients, vendors where required

Delivery and Support of Specific Applications:

  • Management of activities within the overall team
  • Participating and enabling the business Prioritisation process
  • Scheduling and prioritisation of tasks and resources
  • Coordinate: Build, Test, Deliver, Fix, Change Requests
  • Capacity management: delegation of tasks, review of execution, and providing feedback to team members
  • Resolution and prevention of issues

Technical capacity, quality and standards:

  • Ensures that the Technical Application capacity exists for a particular set of systems
  • Understanding business'' future requirements
  • Preventing technical issues from arising by proactive management
  • Produce and enable a Capacity Plan for the Application
  • Ensuring adherence to Quality, Standards, SLA adherence, adherence to PM and SDLC standards
  • Making recommendations for the improvement of the SDLC, PM or ITIL processes

Project Management of projects:

  • Acting as a Project Manager for selected projects
  • Delivering specific projects to produce internal or external capacity
  • Management of activities within the SDLC (Acting as process owner)
  • Participating and enabling the business prioritisation process
  • Scheduling and prioritising tasks and resources
  • Taking ownership of production issues and driving to resolution
  • Adherence to Quality, Standards, SLA’s and SDLC standards

Human Capital Management:

  • Ensures that human capacity exists in the team being managed
  • Driving the skills development of team members, coaching of team members for performance, and coaching on career development
  • Recruitment, staff training, conflict management and creating a welcoming working environment
  • Performance management (objective setting, feedback, appraisals, incentives and bonuses, addressing poor performance)

Contribution to Digital System Strategy:

  • Contribute to company systems strategy/ technical direction.

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EDUCATION/ EXPERIENCE/ KNOWLEDGE:

  • Matric
  • BSc in Computer Sciences/ Information Systems or equivalent IT tertiary qualification
  • Applicable Management Development courses would be advantageous
  • Applicable project management experience
  • ITIL (Incident, Change, Release, Problem Management)
  • SDLC (Agile Methodology experience would be advantageous)
  • Minimum 8 years Systems Development experience
  • Minimum 5 years relevant experience managing a software development team for large commercial entities, or demonstrated leadership capabilities
  • Exposure in driving key strategic initiatives in a Business Unit
  • ITIL (Incident, Change, Release, Problem Management)
  • SDLC (Agile Methodology experience would be advantageous)

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