IT Technical Manager II: Food and Clothing Applications at Woolworths

Job description

• Lead, mentor, and motivate a team of engineers, providing guidance and support in their daily tasks and career development.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute the technical roadmap, aligning with business objectives and customer needs.
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and accountability within the team.
• To build and maintain strategic relationships with internal and external stakeholders to address business needs and drive implementation of relevant industry best practices.
• Provide technical guidance and support to ensure successful project delivery on time and within budget.
• Provides technical leadership ensuring team is aligned and delivers to the software engineering strategy, patterns and standards that respect compliance, security, operational best practice, and best possible user experience.
• Drives developer training plans and on-boarding to ensure relevant and up to date digital development skills are available.
• Collaborates with the leadership team to set development technologies, architectures, coding standards and processes that enable a speed with quality agile delivery culture.
• Manage issues with appropriate urgency which includes resolution and communication with stakeholders in conjunction with the support procedures.
• Leads by example and is able to get into the technical details of the development landscape when needed.
• Understand the IT and Business strategy and translate into a one-year systems operating plan.
• Stay abreast of technological advancements and recommend innovative solutions to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Minimum requirements

• Qualifications – NQF8 level in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent with experience in software development.
• 5 -10 years software development experience (C#, .Net, .NET Core, Python, Java)
• 2 years as a Solution Architect.
• Minimum 2 years people management
• Cloud Computing -Saas (AWS or Azure) exposure
• 3 to 5 years working in a lead or management role.

ADDITIONAL CRITERIA

• Tech savvy - Anticipates and adopts innovations in business-building digital and technology applications.
• Action oriented - Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Communicates effectively - Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences, enabling you to influence change within an enterprise environment.
• Manages Complexity - Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Collaborates - Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objective.