Manager: Software Development

4 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Clickatell Full time

We Are Setting The Pace

Clickatell is a world-class Chat Commerce company, ambitious to stay ahead of its competitors. We build our own culture in which we dream big and stay busy doing the right things. We need champions who understand the bigger picture, believe in making a difference and are able to connect the dots to achieve success. In our agile and demanding environment, you will be required to collaborate, ask the right questions and take the smart risk.

We call ourselves Champions. Why Champions? Because it's not only about what we have done, but what we are doing and going to do. The way we do things, matter and influences how we drive our organisation forward and deliver solutions to our customers. Watch this space as we blaze a new path while expanding across the globe.

Purpose

We Do The Right Things

Responsibilities of the Role

We are moving towards defining clear goals and objectives for our teams and working to achieve those goals. This is a senior position, and you are expected to manage one or more teams and inspire others to achieve the department and team goals. Our goals will be to:

- Meeting and delivering on our business partners priorities
- Working with the team to increase the velocity of the deliverables by continuedly identifying issues and blockers and working to remove them
- Quality of deliverables. Working continuedly to deliver high quality solutions which meet and exceed our operational thresholds.
- Constantly ensure the team innovates and transforms themselves. Focuses on agility and responsiveness and has a can do and engaged stand towards all stakeholders.
- Constantly working with other development managers to align on end to end deliverables and meeting our goals and objectives.
- Perpetuating a learning culture and a high performance culture within the software development organization.

We Are On A Learning Journey

Requirements of the Role
- Related degree or equivalent diploma or equivalent work experience (essential)
- Work experience:

- 5+ years' experience as a software development manager
- Technical ability to be respected by the development team
- Agile and iterative software dev methodologies
- Managing one or more teams of 10+ resources
- Proven experience in the technologies we use such as containerisation, service orientated architecture, AWS (Services, Storage).
- Knowledge and Abilities:

- Excellent communication skills
- Demonstratable skills in Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid methodologies, including formal project management, and customer/partner
- Effective change management methodologies
- Sound technical understanding
- Demonstratable proficiency in handling complex projects across multiple platforms and intricate dependencies
- Deep knowledge of troubleshooting, software development processes and ability to understand and implement client requirements.
- Ability to analyse requirements and identify scope and nature of deliverables, guide your and other teams, and key stakeholders.
- Efficient utilising tools such as Jira, Tempo, PowerBI and others to analyse team performance and make improvements to improve delivery cadence.

A Bit About You

Behavioral competency requirements of a Pacesetter:

- **Cultivating Talent**:Actively drives the development of skills and strengths within the team and recognizes achievements. Coaches the team on procedures, technical issues and priorities. Leads and contributes to a positive team environment with open communication and clear goals. Listens to team members' feedback and resolves any issues or conflicts.
- **Managing Resources**:Manages resources optimally by making the right decisions that impacts how resources are used and for what benefit. Accurately estimates, forecast, projects, and monitors available levels of relevant resources and makes the right calls.
- **Expert Exchanges**:Seeks and communicates insights. Acts as access point for information within their team and throughout the organization and ensures sharing of key learnings. Prepares and presents reports, and updates advising on performance and capacity.
- **Risk Mitigation**:Resolves problems that are relatively complex and drives decision-making processes. Systematically processes key factors when resolving conflict, managing risk, ensuring compliance and addressing quality concerns.
- **Foster Teamwork**:Builds relationships and influentially engages across teams to elevate performance. Facilitates brainstorming that delivers the best solutions. Encourages an inclusive culture where voices are heard and being open-minded is valued.
- **Emotions and Performance**:Puts effort into managing the link between emotions and performance that helps others do their best work by increasing self-awareness and reducing blind spots. Fosters a safe environment where others feel comfortable to take smart risks and build relationships.
- **Drive Execution**:Develops tactical plans that support the strategy and plans the detail of the** **projects, act

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