Software Development Manager

5 months ago


Cape Town, South Africa BET Software Full time

**We Want You**:
**You Bring**:

- At least 3-5 years’ experience managing software development teams and leads.
- At least 6 years in a technical role within the IT software development industry.
- Prior experience ensuring timely project delivery.
- Provide technical and architectural guidance to development team.
- Ensure development standards and development SDLC is adhered to by the development team.
- Ability to work under pressure and in a fast-paced growing environment.
- Strong planning and organisational skills.
- Reporting skills at Senior Management level.
- Prior stakeholder and team lead management.

**W**hat You’ll Do**:
Strategy, objectives and execution
- Create, agree and execute software development road maps and operational strategy for projects coming into the business in collaboration with respective team members through proper documentation, communication and execution.
- Build effective customer centric relationships through measurements of performance and usage and engagement and involvement with customers by creating clear visibility through strategies and roadmaps.
- Sets and achieves efficient delivery objectives of their teams by ensuring individual and team strategy with clear and measurable objectives that align with organisational goals.
- Hold team accountable through road maps and individual performance contracts through consistent communication of delivery milestones.
- Accountable for articulating, monitoring, reporting and achieving realisation.
- Development of long-term strategic thinking incorporating demand forecasting for product or future projects.
- Utilisation of data metrics in order to make data driven decisions.

Knowledge management
- Identifies and responds to situation/organisational/market requirements by creating a culture of innovation and opportunity identification by team.
- Facilitates change management due to changing situational requirements e.g., restructure changes or adoption of new technologies.
- Supports and aligns standards across BET by allocating agreed commitments to strategy/roadmap communication and implementation.
- Maintains product(s) knowledge as well as general product knowledge by being able to represent your product strategy in detail.
- Ensure the established procedures and processes are accurately documented, communicated, implemented, and agreed with product and/or project teams.
- Acts as escalation point for issues and ensures effective communication and resolution activities are in place.

Stakeholder management
- Effectively liaise and communicate with both internal and external key stakeholders at senior level to manage day to day issues, escalations, and expectations.
- Ensure all operational communication with customers/partners are documented and effectively circulated to stakeholders making use of collaborative tools.
- Engage with executive members or equivalent at customers/partners to ensure collaboration at all levels.
- Engage with the wider business and if needed hold strategic knowledge sharing sessions.
- Maintain and facilitate strategic stakeholder and communication analysis.

**Behavioral Outputs**:
***Talent Management
- Ensure that the team members are equipped with the requisite skills for both current and future projects facilitating a career and training development plan for each team member.
- Provide and facilitate mentoring and coaching by driving knowledge sharing.
- Creates a culture that is aligned to the platform ‘’Be a good citizen’’ mantra, where respect, openness, and integrity are the foundation for a culture that cultivates, creates and executes our vision.
- Succession planning and key man reliance - ensuring the right people are in the right roles and being developed accordingly, ensuring business continuity through minimising key man reliance.
- Talent acquisition, ensuring that we are committed to hiring the best quality people for optimal achievement of results.
- Ensure business continuity through minimizing key man reliance.

Adaptably Resilient
- Adapts to change and is open to new ideas and willing to take on new responsibilities.
- Able to handle pressure and can effectively adjust plans to meet changing needs/demands.
- Changes his/her interpersonal style and approach based on the circumstances.
- Adapts behaviour to maintain cooperative relationships with others.
- Accepts changes to task, plans and procedures in order to align with strategic direction of the organization and appropriately adjusts behaviour and activities to changing conditions.
- Maintains a positive attitude in the face of change.

Decision Making Quality
- Makes confident, timely, fact-based decisions drawing on a broad range of resources through collaboration with others.
- Ensures others understand the decision before moving forward.
- Considers short
- and long-term implications of the decision.
- Able to logically defend and explain judgements and decisions.
- Takes steps to accurately define t



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