Chief Application Strategist

2 weeks ago


Randburg, Gauteng, South Africa Edge Executive Search Full time
Job Title: Applications Director

Edge Executive Search is seeking an experienced Applications Director to lead our client's IT portfolio. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering committed projects on time, to scope, and within budget, while ensuring all relevant applications are available per SLA.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop and maintain a long-term roadmap for each application, staying abreast of technology changes in the applications landscape.
  • Lead a team of functional analysts, developers, and reporting specialists to support ERP, HCM, BI, CRM, and other application needs.
  • Define and ensure compliance with application development methodologies, principles, standards, and processes.
  • Establish a culture of high performance, continuous optimization, and cost effectiveness, and manage team performance.
  • Serve as the Centre of Excellence for applications under the control of the Applications team.
  • Support the CIO and Enterprise Architecture Director in critical review of Application Roadmaps.
  • Quorum member of Architecture Review Board that approves/rejects solution designs.
  • Establish, communicate, manage, and enforce appropriate change and release management, test, and quality mechanisms.
  • Pro-actively plan future IT resource requirements with third-party suppliers for both projects and application support.
  • Review business cases to assess all application impacts.
  • Own all business cases and RFI/RFP/RFQ related to any applications-related work.
Requirements:
  • 8+ years of experience in leading large teams with proven results.
  • 8+ years of application development and management experience.
  • 8+ years of managing suppliers and large contracts.
  • Experience in Architecture and testing and test management an advantage.
  • Experience in Project Management an advantage.
  • Experience in working in a Delivery Centre environment an advantage.


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