Group Digital Technology Application Service

4 days ago

Durban North, South Africa Aspen Pharma Group Full time

**ROLE PURPOSE**:
Strategic and tactical role in the digital technology organization and is accountable for the planning, estimating and execution of programmes of systems development work to time, budget and quality targets. The identification of the resources needed for systems development and how this will be met with an effective supply capacity. The alignment of systems development activity and deliverables with agreed architectures and standards. The development of roadmaps to communicate future systems development plans. The adoption and adaptation of systems development lifecycle models based on the context of the work and selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Oversees the provision of specialist advice by others, consolidates expertise from multiple sources, including third party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organizational objectives.
- Within a change programme, leads the preparation of technical plans and, in liaison with business assurance and project staff, ensures that appropriate technical resources are made available.
- Provides advice on technical aspects of solution development and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) are applied correctly.
- Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate software design methods, tools and techniques; selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
- Specifies and designs large or complex software components. Undertakes impact analysis on major design options, makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks.
- Specifies prototypes/simulations to enable informed decision making.
- Evaluates the quality of others' systems designs to ensure adherence to standards and identifies corrective action, if needed.
- Ensures that the system design balances functional, quality, security and systems management requirements.
- Contributes to development of organizational software design and architecture policies and standards.
- Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of appropriate tools, techniques and processes (including automation and continuous integration) to create a robust integration framework.
- Leads integration work in line with the agreed system and service design.
- Monitors and reports on the results of each integration and build.
- Designs and builds integration components and interfaces.
- Contributes to the overall design of the service and the definition of criteria for product and component selection.
- Contributes to development of systems integration policies, standards and tools.
- Ensures that all requests for support are dealt with according to set standards and procedures.

**EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE**:

- Matric / Grade 12
- B.Com / BSc Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience
- Current industry certification in architecture (i.e., TOGAF, Zachman, etc.)
- Operational Management Methodology (i.e., ITIL, COBIT, SDLC, DevOps, Agile)
- 10+ years’ experience of managing relationships with internal business customers
- Experience and sound knowledge of Application development and Implementation/Release management, implementation and improvement practices
- ERP (SAP)
- Business Applications - Capability based model (CRM, MES, HRIS, MIS, etc)
- 10+ years’ experience leading teams, internal and 3rd parties in a multivendor approach

**SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES**:

- Innovation
- Visioning
- Strategic planning
- Global thinking
- Entrepreneurial thinking
- Teamwork
- Initiative
- Results oriented
- Systems thinking
- Focused
- Problem-solving and good judgment
- Responsibility and accountability
- Cooperation
- Proactive
- Resilience
- Active listening skills
- Presentation skills
- Meeting facilitation
- Organisational awareness
- Influence skills
- Pragmatic
- Empathy

**KNOWLEDGE**:

- Technical / professional knowledge
- Industry knowledge

**ASPEN COMPETENCIES**:
**BUSINESS**
- Create the Future
- Accountability/ Ownership

**PEOPLE**
- Communicate Effectively
- Dealing with ambiguity Embrace Change

**SELF**
- Contribute Special Expertise
- Take Action with Integrity

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