Delivery Manager needed at Discovery Limited

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Discovery Limited’s job vacancy, Career and Recruitment

Job title : Delivery Manager jobs in Gauteng

Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg

Deadline : March 14, 2023

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Key Purpose

  • Provide the means for the Carrier to engagement with Vitality Group from a Systems perspective. Ensure systems delivery to the Partner Market is accomplished.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

  • SDLC Execution: Management of all activities within the SDLC including:
  • Size, forecast, capacitate, plan, monitor, report and control all aspects of the SDLC
  • Scheduling and prioritization of tasks and resources
  • Coordinate: Build, Test, Deliver, Fix, Change Requests across multiple teams (external, outsourced, offshore teams, and onshore)
  • Issue Resolution: Ensure that Project milestones are met through active issue resolution, timeous escalations and direct management of the resources
  • Lead and manage the project resources. Mentor and guide the project team where required
  • Plan, monitor and report on software delivery Success is measured on delivery against project plans
  • Guide solutions towards VG V1 design Minimum CRs against V1 design
  • Develop high performing teams High quality delivery on time
  • Ensure quality systems delivery to the Partner Market – Production issues are measured
  • Management
  • Meet project goals and objectives within the overall scope, time frame, cost, quality, standards and SLA
  • Capacity management: delegation of tasks, review of execution, and providing feedback to team members.
  • Manage vendors: capacity, work allocations, quality, cost and SLAs.
  • Issue management: Resolution, escalation and prevention of issues. Remove impediments to the effective functioning of the development team
  • Prioritization: Participating and enabling the business Prioritization process along with the product owner.
  • Risk Management and Escalations: Management of risks to the delivery timelines with appropriate escalations
  • Communication: of project progress to management and project stakeholders.
  • Continuous Improvement: Report on the quality of project output on completion of the project and input into the processes to ensure better, more efficient execution in the future.
  • Manage IT Relationship with Partner Market
  • Ensure client satisfaction in IT, systems delivery, and platform – Measure through client satisfaction, Balance Scorecard and level of Escalations.
  • Manages the relationship with Business Applications owners
  • Chair or attend the relevant forums, planning, organizing, resource management, project documentation, timeline and deliverable management

Personal Attributes And Skills

  • Communicates effectively
  • Values Driven
  • Optimistic
  • Learns on the Fly
  • Resilient
  • Instils Trust
  • People Savvy
  • Drives Results
  • Problem Solver

Education

Education and Experience

  • Degree in Information Systems or equivalent

Experience

  • 12 or more years management of software development projects. Development experience is an advantage. Understand Software development principles.

Knowledge

  • Software development principles, Project Management, People focused. Logical Thinker, Proactive in approach to planning, Risk Mitigation, Solution Driven, Consulting
  • Negotiation skills, ITIL services Framework
     

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