Technology Manager at MultiChoice

Job description

PURPOSE OF THIS ROLE

MAL is seeking a Technology Manager to own and drive our digital platform strategy across all digital channels. This entails Initiate, develop, implement, track, enhance, optimize and support all existing and new digital capabilities for MAL.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES, MEASURES & CONTACTS

• Accountable for managing a Technical Team of Technical Architects, Developers, Analysts, Testers and Technical Support Analysts
• Establishment of an effective Digital Media Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Implement, document, promote and obtain adoption of design and development principles, processes and best practices
• Defining a 1 year, 3 year and 5 year Technical Digital Media implementation strategy.
• Identify business challenges that can be addressed by developing software solutions
• Participate in the evaluation and recommendation of all third party products.
• Manage the team in translating functional requirements to produce detailed system designs
• Mange integration between Devlopment and Operations to delivery stable Business Systems.
• Manage the Release and Deployment for Digital Media properties including the Cloud hosting platform.
• Identification of the best candidates for Architects, Development, Analysis, Testing and Technical Support.
• Responsible for the internalization of MultiChoice intellectual property through the knowledge transfer from external vendors to internal staff.
• Accountable for deliverables from 3rd party development companies.
• Analyse, incorporate and propose market trends, related industry trends and technology industries
• Deliver a contextualized technology roadmap that will give MultiChoice Africa the competitive edge on the African continent.
• Mentoring and performance management of internal external and internal resources
• Managing the relationship with technical stakeholders in other departments including: DStv Digital Media, the Information Technology Department (ITD), BTD and promote collaboration.
• Responsible for Departmental budgets and planning.
• Align digital capabilities with industry standards and trends and make sure that the digital technology stack are aligned with the enterprise architecture
• Defined digital roadmap and strategy for digital platforms across Africa and make sure they are uniform and complementary to the existing systems and platforms

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• BSc Computer Science or relevant IT Degree
• At least 10 years+ software development and design experience
• At least 5 years+ experience managing a technical team with developers, analysts and tester
• At least 10 years+ working in a Digital Media organization
• Experience in implementing a seamless SDLC process from requirement solicitation, design, development, build, test, usability testing to deployment into production.
• Managing onshore and offshore development teams
• Experience in implementing Agile software development practices such as Scrum, Extreme programming and Rapid Application Development (RAD)
• Thorough understanding of Native mobile application design, Mobile Website design, Website design Web services design, Content Management Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, and Pay Television Billing Systems.
• Experience in the technical integration with African payment gateways and banks
• Proven project experience in development of Android, IOS and BlackBerry Mobile applications.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Excellent technical skills
• Excellent project management skills
• Excellent planning and organizing skills
• Exceptional communication skills; communicate with developers
• Strong demonstrated problem solving and documentation skills
• Ability to communicate vision to team members Exceptional leadership skills and ability to motivate

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES

• Experience in SLDC process
• Software project management and Software engineering skills
• Broad knowledge of software development technologies
• System analysis and design skills.
• Software architecture skills
• Software programming skills
• A good understand of Digital Media technologies
• Up to date knowledge of current and emerging technologies relevant to the Company and the Industry
• General understanding of compliance Frameworks, such as but not limited to: ICT, ECT, BEE, COBIT & ITIL) COBIT/ SANS17799/ ITIL/ Agile / SOA, Information Systems Audit and Control Standards