Development Manager

6 days ago

Sandton, South Africa Malander Placements Full time

**Client Relationship Management & Networking**
- Ensuring alignment to business requirements, and building trust with clients by displaying managerial competence
- Understanding business requirements, business systems and process context, impact and risks
- Participating in client forums, MANCO, EXCO, planning/strategy sessions, reporting
- Acting as Consultant to the internal client
- Interfacing to other teams where required
- Interfacing to external clients, vendors where required

**Delivery and Support of Specific Applications**
- Management of activities within the SDLC (process owner)
- Participating and enabling the business Prioritisation process
- Scheduling and prioritisation of tasks and resources
- Coordinate: Build, Test, Deliver, Fix, Change Requests
- Capacity management: delegation of tasks, review of execution, and providing feedback to team members
- Resolution and prevention of issues

**Technical capacity, quality and standards**
- Ensures that the Technical Application capacity exists for a particular set of systems
- Understanding business' future requirements
- Preventing technical issues from arising by proactive management
- Produce and enable a Capacity Plan for the Application
- Ensuring adherence to Quality, Standards, SLA adherence, adherence to PM and SDLC standards
- Making recommendations for the improvement of the SDLC, PM or ITIL processes

**Project Management of projects**
- Acting as a Project Manager for selected projects
- Delivering specific projects to produce internal or external capacity
- Management of activities within the SDLC (Acting as process owner)
- Participating and enabling the business prioritisation process
- Scheduling and prioritising tasks and resources
- Taking ownership of production issues and driving to resolution
- Adherence to Quality, Standards, SLA’s and SDLC standards

**Human Capital Management**
- Ensures that human capacity exists in the team being managed
- Driving the skills development of team members, coaching of team members for performance and coaching on career development
- Recruitment, staff training, conflict management and creating a welcoming working environment
- Performance management (objective setting, feedback, appraisals, incentives and bonuses,addressing poor performance)

**Contribution to Digital Systems Strategy**
- Contribute to the Vitality RSA Systems strategy, technical direction, MANCO

**Personal Attributes and Skills**
- Drives Results
- Passion for delivery and quality
- Values Driven
- Optimistic
- Learns on the Fly
- Resilient
- Instils Trust
- People Savvy
- Drives Results
- Problem Solver
- Leadership Skills
- Strategic Agility
- Manages complexity
- Balances Stakeholders

**Knowledge**:

- ITIL (Incident, Change, Release, Problem Management)
- SDLC (Agile Methodology experience would be advantageous)

**Experience**:

- Minimum 8 - 10 years Systems Development experience
- Minimum 3 to 5 years relevant experience managing a software development team for large commercial entities, or demonstrated leadership capabilities
- Exposure in driving key strategic initiatives in a Business Unit

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