Development Manager

4 months ago

Sandton, South Africa Blue Label Telecoms Full time

**About Company**

At Blue Label Distribution, our brand philosophy is that we can create and distribute anything that is able to be digitised. Our Blu-approved brand is the face of our service offering and is underpinned by a world-class technology platform for both online and offline commerce. With a point-of-sale network of approximately 150 000 devices, we provide a distribution footprint across all income groups. 85% of our income comes from merchants in the informal sector.

**Job Purpose**

The primary purpose of the role is to lead the development and participate in the testing function within the company, line manages a multi-skilled delivery team covering a range of technologies, define and lead continuous improvement of delivery processes, involvement with high-level technical design of solutions and champion of Agile development within the company.

**Responsibilities**

**Strategic objectives**
- Support and deliver objectives aligned to the Organisational and Technology
- Development Strategy
- Ensure that technology solutions are fit-for-purpose and aligned with architectural principles, standards and roadmaps
- Ensure that the delivery team’s purpose and objectives are clear and linked to the broader organisational vision, strategy and customer roadmap
- Translate business objectives into streams of work, aligning technology and business strategy
- Consider financial impact of technology solutions, with a view to delivering value to our customers
- Develop coding and development standards, ensuring solutions are suitably assured and of quality
- Work with the Head of Software Development and Technology Leadership to define the roadmap for any given product and translate this into user stories
- Clearly understand business and user requirements

**Development and Project Delivery**
- Assist in developing and maintain effective ways of working throughout the department and organization
- Assist in guiding the transition of solutions to outsource partner and into a live service, where applicable
- Work closely with the Business Delivery Executive, Head of Software Development, Product Owners, Product teams and other leaders to deliver initiatives and products utilizing lean and agile project management methods
- Lead the collaborative, dynamic planning process - prioritising the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team
- Provide technical guidance and innovation across all aspects of technology development
- Coach and empower delivery teams to take accountability for delivery, manage issues and risk and assist by removing blockers.
- Application and/or Platform ownership including facilitation of critical incident management and technical roadmaps
- Support Strategic Delivery Partners to optimise and deliver valued outcomes from partnered resources
- Develop a team environment that supports team engagement and high performance in a diverse, distributed and partnered team
- Proactively manages and addresses performance issues in development team members
- Builds strong relationships with internal customers, stakeholders, R&D and integration teams to ensure delivery is smooth and customer centric
- Provide technical advice and direction to teams and customers with a view to inform business strategy, and deliver technical solutions, that drives innovation and business outcomes in an Agile way of working
- Ensure all products are built to an appropriate level of quality for the stage (alpha/beta/production)

**Work collaboratively**
- Build a culture of respect and understanding across the organisation
- Recognise outcomes which resulted from effective collaboration between teams
- Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication and collaboration across the organisation
- Provide the required information to the relevant teams to ensure effective delivery of initiatives
- Strive to ensure deadlines are met and deviations are managed as prescribed by the ways of work

**Leadership**
- Develop, promote and direct the implementation of equal opportunities policies in all aspects of the company’s work
- Transitions team's skillset with the support of the Human Capital Business Partner to enable and support platform and tool adoption per the departmental roadmap in line with strategies defined with CTO
- Role model behaviour and motivate team members in line with the core values
- Take full responsibility for performance of all direct reports, motivating and managing them in relation to quality standards and agreed benchmarks and objectives, focusing on all aspects of sound people management
- Provide support and guidance on career path planning, on-the-job training,ccoaching and mentoring to direct reports
- Guidance of others and active development of self to improve on their technical and communication abilities so that capabilities and deliveries are better understood and thus trusted and applied through the business
- Identify the

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