Development Manager - Johannesburg, South Africa - Psybergate

Psybergate

Verified Company

Johannesburg, South Africa

2 days ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

What you will be doing:

Managing relationships with Business Product owners and ensures that business objectives are reflected in the technical processes which they manage.
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
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
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
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, SLAs and SDLC standards

What we are looking for:

Completed IT degree / BSc degree or other related fields
10 years management of software development projects. Development experience is an advantage. Understand Software development principles.
8 years management experience
Management of both offshore and onshore development teams, including capacity planning and delivery planning.
Experience with offshore markets and the management of IT work streams
Some experience with market rollout and day to day IT management task
Good internal and external relationships and networks.

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