Development Manager

5 days ago

Sandton, South Africa Discovery Limited Full time

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Business Unit: Discovery Health

Function: Information Technology

Date: 6 Mar 2025

Discovery – Health Benefit SolutionsAbout Discovery

Discovery's core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About Health Benefit Solutions

Health Benefit Solutions is a division within Discovery Health Systems responsible for product application development and integration into Discovery. The core applications are developed to support authorization management, claims processing and payments against members health policies.

Key Purpose

Acts as a technical owner of a set of applications, managing relationships with Business Product owners and ensuring that business objectives are reflected in the technical processes which they manage. This includes managing a team of IT specialists, specifically resourcing and scheduling in the SDLC Processes, managing a set of projects (potentially across teams), and ensuring that the applications remain adaptive to emerging client needs in its lifetime.

Areas of Responsibility
  • Delivery and Support of Specific Applications
  • Client Relationship Management & Networking
    • Ensuring alignment to business requirements
    • Building trust with clients by displaying managerial competence
    • Understanding business requirements, business strategy and direction, risks and impact
    • Participating in client forums (MANCO, planning/strategy sessions, reporting)
    • Acting as consultant to internal and external clients
    • Interfacing to other teams where required
  • Project/Delivery Management
    • Management of activities within the SDLC (Acting as process owner)
    • Participating and enabling the business prioritization process
    • Scheduling and prioritizing tasks and resources
    • Capacity management
    • Project budget tracking and management
    • Taking ownership of production issues and driving to resolution
    • Adherence to Quality, Standards, SLA's and SDLC standards
  • Human Capital Management
    • Team management
    • Capacity planning
    • Driving skills development
    • Mentoring/Coaching of team members
    • Recruitment, conflict management, creating a welcoming environment
    • Performance management
  • Contribute to Health Systems Strategy
    • Contribution to Health Systems and Clinical Systems Strategy
    • Technical Direction
    • MANCO
Personal Attributes and Skills
  • Passion for delivery and quality
  • Time Management
  • Innovative/Creative thinking
  • Tenacity and Urgency
  • Communication (Written, Verbal and Listening)
  • Results Orientated
  • Change Readiness
Education and Experience
  • Tertiary Degree (B. Engineer, B.Com, BSc)
  • 3-5 years' experience in software development for large commercial entities or has demonstrated leadership capabilities
  • Must have managed a software development team
  • Software Development and Testing
  • SDLC (Agile experience would be advantageous), ITIL (Incident, change, Release, Problem Management)

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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