Development Manager

Our client in the Telecoms Industry is looking to hire a Development Manager.

Duties and Responsibilities

General

• 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 by approval by executives
• Coordinate: Build, Test, Deliver, Fix, Change Requests

Technical capacity, quality, and standard via an ISO standard

• 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 ISO processes

Project Management of projects

• Acting as a Project Manager for selected development projects in terms of deadlines and milestones
• 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

Team Management

• Ensures that team management 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)

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Drives Results
• Passion for delivery and quality
• Values Driven
• Optimistic
• Learns on the Fly
• Resilient
• Instils Trust
• People Savvy
• Problem Solver
• Leadership Skills
• Strategic Agility
• Manages complexity
• Thrives under pressure

Requirements

• Matric
• BSc in Computer Sciences/ Information Systems or equivalent IT tertiary qualification
• Applicable Management Development courses would be advantageous
• Applicable project management experience

Knowledge

• SDLC (Agile Methodology experience would be advantageous)
• Dot Net Framework on Visual Studios
• Development Architecture designs and best practices

Experience

• 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

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