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- 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.
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
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 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
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 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
Competencies required
- Knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Knowledge of relevant systems and products
- Communication skills
- Planning and organising skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Analytical skills
- People management skills
- Providing Insights
- Making Decisions
- Directing People
- Team Working
- Meeting Timescales
- Managing Tasks
- Taking Action
- Pursuing Goals
Experience and Qualifications
- 5-7 years’ senior development experience
- 2-3 years’ management experience
- Relevant IT qualification
- Relevant post graduate IT qualification
We reserve the right not to fill the vacancy. Should you not receive any response in respect of your application within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.