Director of DevOps at Salt South Africa

This position is responsible for overseeing the DevSecOps within the Information & Technology (I&T) function. The Senior Vice President: Development Engineering ensures that the company meets it’s objectives by developing new platforms and/or products and improving on existing platforms (reducing technical debt).

This position works with the I&T leadership to enable the SAFe Agile framework, ensuring that the I&T engineering function is able to meet the demands of the business. The Senior Vice President: Development Engineering is are tasked with enabling the DevSecOps ensuring Continuous Development, Continuous Integration and Release on demand capabilities.

She/He needs to create a culture which ensures that security is built in and the Development Engineering division has a relentless focus on quality, ensuring that the architecture principles are adhered too.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Works with the CIO and I&T Finance Director to develop and drive the implementation of an IT Strategy and budget required to execute and annual and multi-year development and engineering plan.
• Direct senior teams in achieving the objectives of the Development Engineering division.
• Drive accountability, consistency, quality, and process standardization across all phases of engineering and development.
• Provides leadership, direction and mentorship for development engineering division within and across global geographies.
• Provide support to, identify, manage and coordinate the implementation of development engineering protocols or best practice standards.
• Provide feedback to stakeholders on current and future path of platforms implemented and their product roadmaps.
• Develop and monitor metrics as required and convey metrics to ensure appropriate alignment and executive awareness.
• Ensuring timely and consistent communication to stakeholders on risk management and change management associated with the technology and development portfolio.
• Actively promote new ways of working that drive agility, speed and design-thinking.
• Champion cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teaming.
• Implement, maintain and monitor standards, controls, processes and solutions to minimise business and IT risk, ensuring compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements and standards.
• Accountable for driving continuous improvement and within the Development Engineering division.
• Build long term, strategic relationships with executive stakeholders in a large client organisation.

Knowledge, skills and attributes

• Proven leadership capability
• Customer-centricity
• Excellent communication skills
• Formidable stakeholder and relationship management skills
• Comprehensive knowledge of product management and service development life cycles
• Expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments industry best practices and provision of proactive advice and solutions to relevant stakeholders
• Strategic and commercial thinking capability
• Excellent understanding of market trends that influence the profitability of an organisation, particularly related to products and services
• Operations Management

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology
• Scaled Agile certification - SAFe
• DevSecOps certification
• Operations Management Certification like ITIL

Experience required:

• Leadership, coaching, mentoring and operational management experience
• Experience in leading DevSecOps within a package based environment. In particular SAP, SFDC and ServiceNow.
• Substantial experience in a similar position at a senior level
• Proven technical expertise and extensive industry experience
• Demonstrable track record of involvement in research and development new products or product lines
• Proven experience developing programs that address the research and development industry trends
• Proven experience analysing development needs of the development engineering team
• Experience working with scaled Agile approach and methodology
• Proven DevSecOps management experience