Development Manager at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose
Acts a techincal owner of a set of applications. Managing relationships with Business Product owners and ensures that business objectives are reflected in the techincal processes which they manage. Managing a team of IT specialists, specifically resourcing and scheduling in the SDLC Processes. Managing a set of projects (potentially across teams). Ensuring that the applications remain adaptive temerging client needs in its lifetime.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Delivery and Support of Specific Applications
• Client Relationship Management & Networking
• Ensuring alignment tbusiness requirements
• Building trust with clients by displaying managerial competence
• Understanding business requirements, business strategy and direction, risks and impact
• Participating in client forums (MANCO, planning/strategy sessions, reporting)
• Acting as consultant tinternal and external clients
• Interfacing tother teams where required
• Project/Delivery Management
• Management of activities within the SDLC (Acting as process owner)
• Participating and enabling the business prioritisation process
• Scheduling and prioritising tasks and resources
• Capacity management
• Project budget tracking and management
• Taking ownership of production issues and driving tresolution
• Adherence tQuality, Standards, SLA’s and SDLC standards
• Human Capital Management
• Team management
• Capacity planning
• Driving skills development
• Mentoring/Coaching of team members
• Recruitment, conflict management, creating a welcoming environment
• Performance management
• Contribute tHealth Systems Strategy
• Contribution tHealth Systems and Clinical Systems Strategy
• Technical Direction
• MANCO

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Great stakeholder management
• Passion for delivery and quality
• Time Management
• Innovative/Creative thinking
• Tenacity and Urgency
• Communication (Written, Verbal and Listening)
• Results Orientated
• Change Readiness
• Influential Leader

Education and Experience

• Tertiary Degree (B. Engineer, B.Com, BSC)
• 3-5 years’ experience in software development for large commercial entities or has demonstrated leadership capabilities
• Must have managed a software development team
• Project Management experience
• Solution Architecture
• Software Development and Testing
• SDLC (Agile experience would be advantageous), ITIL (Incident, change, Release, Problem Management)