Development Manager (Senior) | Talent Pool at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

• Partners with one or more Business Area owners and ensures that business application requirements are implemented effectively and efficiently to realise business objectives, including the definition of business process needs, consideration of alternative sources, review of technological and economic feasibility, implementation and monitoring of business applications. Identifies, prioritises, specifies and agrees business functional and technical requirements covering the full scope of application initiatives required to achieve the expected outcomes. Ensuring that the application remains adaptive to emergent business needs, including changes required to the nature of the enterprise's business, business processes, people skills, resources and competencies, organisation structure, and enabling technology. Applying development management technologies and methodologies such as Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) e.g. Agile, Waterfall or other pattern, practices and development frameworks.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Ensuring alignment to business requirements and building trust by displaying managerial competence.
• Ownership of activities in and the improvement of the SDLC, PM or ITIL processes
• Ensuring adherence to Quality, SLA and PM standards.
• Ensures that the technical Application capacity exists for a particular set of systems that support a set of business functions.
• Utilizing commercial awareness and understanding of how systems delivery impact business results to take action to improve business results.
• Coaching of team members for performance, and coaching on management, leadership and career development
• Understanding future business requirements, business systems and process context, impact and risks.
• Identifying stakeholders that need to be considered in the specification phase.
• Participating in MANCO, planning/strategy sessions, reporting
• Acting as Consultant to the Business
• Participating and enabling the business prioritization process
• Preventing technical issues from arising by proactive management
• Conducting forecasts, sizing and estimates on delivery initiatives and plans.
• Managing of vendors that supply specialized services
• Ensures that human capacity exists in the teams and leaders being managed
• Recruitment, staff training, conflict management and creating a welcoming working environment
• Performance management of own team (objective setting, feedback, appraisals, incentives and bonuses, addressing poor performance).
• Providing input to the performance management of others that formed part of the development and management processes
• Contribute to business solutions, technical direction, MANCO.

Skills

• Managing Through Systems, Courage, Change Readiness
• Strategic Orientation, Communication (written, verbal and listening)
• Conflict Management, Negotiation
• Creativeness, Innovation
• Agile Methodology, SDLC, ITIL (Incident, Change, Release, Problem Management), CMMI
• Software architecture, facilitating JAD sessions, data modeling techniques, UML Process Design
• Project Management
• Solution Architecture
• Software development and testing
• Java, hardware, UML, PSSQL

Education and Experience
Essential:

• Matric (Grade 12)
• Tertiary degree (B. Engineer, B.Com, BSC)
• 8 to 12 years of relevant experience
• Financial industry experience