Software Development Manager

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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