Centre of Excellence Team Lead

1 week ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Hollard Full time R1 200 000 - R2 400 000 per year
Closing Date
2025/12/01

Reference Number
HOL

Job Title
Centre of Excellence Team Lead

Business Unit
Hollard Australia

Department
IT

Job Family
IT

Job Type Classification
Permanent

Reporting To
Chief Information Officer

Number of Positions
1

Location - Town / City
Johannesburg

Location - Province
Gauteng

Location - Country
South Africa

Job Advert Summary

Your duties & responsibilities
  • Motivates staff, communicates clear expectations, holds staff accountable to deadlines
  • Provides coaching and constructive feedback and recognition when appropriate
  • Work in partnership with the Australian team to recognize high performers and propose relevant training initiatives.
  • Plan, assign and oversee the activities of professional and technical personnel involved in the analysis, design, development, testing and implementation functions required to modify/create new software applications and/or install, implement and integrate software purchased from outside vendors
  • Anticipate and recognise project scope changes, risks and constraints during project execution
  • Review and approve all changes to production environment ensuring proper business sign-off occurs
  • Provide guidance in the development of project documentation, inclusive of functional/technical requirements, test plans and implementation plans
  • Promote Agile mindset and delivery practices
  • Manage a team including hiring, reviews, and remediation recommendations
  • Recognise opportunities to improve process efficiencies and works with the team through execution
  • Review and analyse existing and proposed system business processes to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of those programs
  • Ensure employees adhere to departmental (both existing and emerging) policies and procedures
Required Knowledge and Experience

Your knowledge, skills & attributes

Knowledge acquired awareness and/or expertise
  • Supervising application development teams
  • Supervising application development/production support projects
  • Supervising multiple/concurrent projects of varying sizes
  • Review of and input on team's project documentation for completeness and accuracy
  • Knowledge of formal project management methods as well as Agile solution delivery
  • Experience with previous Guidewire, Duck Creek or other core Insurance platform implementation projects highly regarded
Skills acquired or inherent abilities
  • Natural ability to lead and motivate the team
  • Knowledge of ITIL framework and processes
  • DevOps and DevSecOps training and/or experience
  • Collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Teams
  • Automation tools such as Jenkins, Selenium, Cruise Control, and Ant
  • Experience in application security considerations including threat modelling, dynamic and static scanning, etc.
Attributes
  • Drive, motivation and innovative thinking
  • Strong desire to help others achieve within a team environment
  • Professionalism
  • Empathetic leadership ability with uncompromising focus on results
  • A desire to establish a practice from the ground up and shape it for the future
Educational Requirements

Qualifications (Formal study undertaken and completed)
  • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or equivalent degree required.
  • Five or more years leading the team of developers and/or testers.
  • Working knowledge/ understanding of Gosu, SQL, Java, SOAP or Restful web services, JavaScript, XML, Git or a similar version control / source code management tool is desired.
  • One or more years of insurance or financial industry background is desired.

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