Development Manager needed at Discovery Limited
Job title : Development Manager
Job Location : Gauteng,
Deadline : December 08, 2023
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Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:
Relationship Management & Networking
- Ensuring alignment between system capability and business requirements, and building trust with clients by displaying technical & managerial competence
- Understanding the technical and business requirements, business systems and process context, impact and risks
- Participating in client forums, MANCO, Steerco, planning & strategy sessions, produce reporting.
- Acting as Consultant to the internal client where required
- Interfacing to other teams and squads in the greater Life Systems team
- Interfacing to external clients, vendors where required
Delivery and Support of Systems and Technology
- Management of activities within the SDLC using Agile Methodology
- 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
- Provide support and guidance to business on best practice in the systems delivery process.
Technical capacity, quality and standards
- Ensures that the technical capacity exists for a particular set of systems, system features
- Understanding business’ future requirements
- Preventing technical issues from arising by proactive management
- Produce and enable a Capacity Plan for the execution of development
- Ensuring adherence to Quality, Standards, SLA adherence, adherence to PM, SDLC standards, and Agile Methodology
- Making recommendations for the improvement of the SDLC, PM or ITIL processes
Management of projects
- Acting as a Project/Delivery Manager for selected projects / initiatives
- Delivering specific projects to produce internal or external capacity
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)
Personal Attributes and Skills
- Client Service Orientation
- Result driven
- Change Readiness
- Time Management
- Communication (written, verbal and listening)
- Creativeness
- Innovation
- Ability to deal with complexity
- Interpersonal skills – Ability to build relationships with people from all different backgrounds and at different job levels
Education and Experience
Minimum
- Tertiary degree (B. Engineer, B.Com, BSc)
- 5 years’ experience in software development for large commercial entities, or has demonstrated leadership capabilities
- 2 years’ experience managing a software development team
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