Development Manager

1 week ago


Johannesburg, South Africa eSoft Development and Technologies Full time

**Roles and Responsibiities**:

- Manage and maintain the operational release plans
- Lead, develop and manage the Developers (Oracle and non Oracle) creating a culture of high performance, continuous optimisation, cost effectiveness and team performance
- Development technologies supported includes Oracle Forms, Reports, OAF, PL/SQL, Java, Fusion Middleware / SOA, Informatica, Microstrategy
- Support the Application Director with release visibility for support planning
- Ensure that the organisation's release controls are documented, well understood and executed correctly by operational support team in order to mitigate risks
- Coordinate with Business Engagement team to ensure that sanctioned communications to all stakeholders have been properly prepared and reviewed
- Authorise and conduct service handover and lead the go-live authorisation discussions with Service Delivery team
- Ensure that each release’s proposed services changes are controlled, monitored, and implemented with minimum disruption to the services being delivered

**Key attributes and competencies**
- **Excellent tactical planning capabilities - **release planning considering time and resource constraints
- **Excellent Release Methodology understanding**:

- ITIL Release and Deployment
- **Superb communication and interpersonal skills**:

- to keep all players co-ordinated on development, delivery and to deploy good quality product, with no negative business impact ensuring that business is aware of all impact from changes

**Experience**
- BSc (Information Systems) or similar
- 6-8+ years of IT systems development, release management and operational support of IT systems

**What you will be measured on**
- SLA targets met
- SLA met
- Business Satisfaction Score %
- # of audit findings
- # of bugs logged post project implementation3
- % of deviations from development stage gates
- Delivery on business and IT projects

**Job Type**: Contract
Contract length: 6 months

**Education**:

- Bachelors (preferred)

**Experience**:

- IT systems development, release management: 6 years (preferred)
- operational support of IT systems: 6 years (preferred)



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