Development Manager

1 week ago


Cape Town, South Africa MRI Software Full time

MRI Software is currently seeking a
** Development Manager** to join our team in the Cape Town, South Africa Offices We are seeking someone with strong leadership skills for this position. The Software Development Manager will be contributing to the strategic vision of the product development organization and leading their team towards that vision.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Contribute to the strategic vision of the product development organization and lead the team towards that vision
- Direct multiple cross-functional teams to deliver product releases that achieve business objectives while meeting quality and time-to-market expectations
- Coordinate product development activities across multiple products/projects in the product suite
- Build team technical capabilities and ensure use of repeatable SDLC (e.g. establish best practices, mentoring, individual development plans, recruiting, etc.) that align to technical and business strategy
- Proactively monitor and identify metrics that can effectively report the overall health of projects and systems to mitigate risk and resolve issues before they are experienced by other groups/clients
- Establish effective communication channels both inside and outside of the Product Development organization.
- Contribute to and drive the execution of the technical roadmap based on input from the business and product advisory boards
- Establish and maintain a culture of learning and continuous improvement
- Provide people, skills, and development processes to projects and programs
- Coach team members to foster their professional development
- Hire and develop a diverse, high performance, scalable team aligned to technical and business strategy
- Align team to meet schedule and fulfil commitments
- Conduct performance reviews of team members

**REQUIREMENTS**:
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Direct project involvement and leadership of projects delivering enterprise software solutions
- Strong understanding of software development best practices, including multiple development methodologies (experience with Agile/SCRUM principles preferred)
- MRI Software product knowledge or enterprise accounting software experience a plus
- Knowledge of enterprise software environments and deployment approaches for SaaS offerings

PERSONAL AND BUSINESS ATTRIBUTES/SKILLS
- Excellent communication and leadership skills
- Strong results orientation
- Self-motivated team player with integrity and a great work ethic
- Solid decision making skills despite ambiguous data and situations. Considers upstream and downstream operational impacts as decision inputs. Balances long-term vs. short-term objectives
- Ability to multitask in an effective and organized manor
- Desire to work in a fast paced environment and always willing to work hard to continually raise the bar for the team
- Excellent time management, communication, decision-making, presentation, human relations, and organization skills
- Accountable for commitments made and schedule deliverables
- Able to assess team and individual technical and personal strengths/weaknesses and coach appropriately

EDUCATION
- BA/BS Degree in Information Systems, Software Engineering or Computer Science or related area; advanced degree preferred

EXPERIENCE
- 5+ years of leadership experience with technical teams
- Proven capability as lead software engineer or a team manager utilizing an iterative and repeatable development process
- Track record of leading teams to deliver scalable, high quality, enterprise software solutions
- Broad-based technical expertise including a strong understanding of programming and architecture concepts
- Established people management skills with the ability to drive individuals and team to realize their potential

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