Software Development Manager - Johannesburg, South Africa - BET Software

BET Software

Verified Company

Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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We Want You:

You Bring:

At least 35 years' experience managing software development teams and leads.
At least 6 years in a technical role within the IT software development industry.
Prior experience ensuring timely project delivery.
Provide technical and architectural guidance to development team.
Ensure development standards and development SDLC is adhered to by the development team.
Ability to work under pressure and in a fastpaced growing environment.
Strong planning and organisational skills.
Reporting skills at Senior Management level.
Prior stakeholder and team lead management.

What You'll Do**:

Strategy, objectives and execution

Create, agree and execute software development road maps and operational strategy for projects coming into the business in collaboration with respective team members through proper documentation, communication and execution.
Build effective customer centric relationships through measurements of performance and usage and engagement and involvement with customers by creating clear visibility through strategies and roadmaps.
Sets and achieves efficient delivery objectives of their teams by ensuring individual and team strategy with clear and measurable objectives that align with organisational goals.
Hold team accountable through road maps and individual performance contracts through consistent communication of delivery milestones.
Accountable for articulating, monitoring, reporting and achieving realisation.
Development of longterm strategic thinking incorporating demand forecasting for product or future projects.
Utilisation of data metrics in order to make data driven decisions.

Knowledge management

Identifies and responds to situation/organisational/market requirements by creating a culture of innovation and opportunity identification by team.
Facilitates change management due to changing situational requirements e.g., restructure changes or adoption of new technologies.
Supports and aligns standards across BET by allocating agreed commitments to strategy/roadmap communication and implementation.
Maintains product(s) knowledge as well as general product knowledge by being able to represent your product strategy in detail.
Ensure the established procedures and processes are accurately documented, communicated, implemented, and agreed with product and/or project teams.
Acts as escalation point for issues and ensures effective communication and resolution activities are in place.

Stakeholder management

Effectively liaise and communicate with both internal and external key stakeholders at senior level to manage day to day issues, escalations, and expectations.
Ensure all operational communication with customers/partners are documented and effectively circulated to stakeholders making use of collaborative tools.
Engage with executive members or equivalent at customers/partners to ensure collaboration at all levels.
Engage with the wider business and if needed hold strategic knowledge sharing sessions.
Maintain and facilitate strategic stakeholder and communication analysis.

Behavioral Outputs:

***Talent Management

Ensure that the team members are equipped with the requisite skills for both current and future projects facilitating a career and training development plan for each team member.
Provide and facilitate mentoring and coaching by driving knowledge sharing.
Creates a culture that is aligned to the platform ''Be a good citizen'' mantra, where respect, openness, and integrity are the foundation for a culture that cultivates, creates and executes our vision.
Succession planning and key man reliance ensuring the right people are in the right roles and being developed accordingly, ensuring business continuity through minimising key man reliance.
Talent acquisition, ensuring that we are committed to hiring the best quality people for optimal achievement of results.
Ensure business continuity through minimizing key man reliance.

Adaptably Resilient

Adapts to change and is open to new ideas and willing to take on new responsibilities.
Able to handle pressure and can effectively adjust plans to meet changing needs/demands.
Changes his/her interpersonal style and approach based on the circumstances.
Adapts behaviour to maintain cooperative relationships with others.
Accepts changes to task, plans and procedures in order to align with strategic direction of the organization and appropriately adjusts behaviour and activities to changing conditions.
Maintains a positive attitude in the face of change.

Decision Making Quality

Makes confident, timely, factbased decisions drawing on a broad range of resources through collaboration with others.
Ensures others understand the decision before moving forward.
Considers short

- and long-term implications of the decision.