IT Delivery Manager at Barron

PURPOSE

• The IT Delivery Manager is responsible for the successful delivery of all IT initiatives to realise business enablement benefits, by managing demand, owning portfolio, programme and project practice; ensuring IT governance; as well as overseeing the DevOps landscape and processes.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Planning, managing, and controlling of IT delivery across all programmes and projects.
• Ensuring the portfolio of IT project work is coordinated and delivered in accordance with IT Roadmap.
• Driving visibility of IT roadmap and integration into IT Portfolio and Governance Cadence.
• Own delivery & demand management process (ensuring successful achievement of project objectives part of the bigger programme portfolio)
• Own architecture (application and integration – aligning with Front- and Back-office solution owners, as well as IM/BI and Infrastructure platform owners)
• Own DevOps processes (assuming overall scrum master role, and ensuring all delivery and operations processes adhere to the dev/ops approach)
• Own the relationship with 3rd party development service providers (in the web, D365 and integration space – and ensuring alignment with IM/BI 3rd party development)
• Own the integration framework & platform
• Own all 3rd party data integration (customers/resellers, platform providers)
• Lead a team consisting of: solution architect/senior developer, senior developer, developer/analyst, junior scrum master/coordinator, and test analyst roles.
• Engage internally (within the technology team) with Front-office (Sales and Marketing), Back-office (Finance, Operations, Warehousing, Merchandising/Planning), IM & Analytics, and Infrastructure teams.

REQUIREMENTS

• NQF 7 IT
• Project Management certification (Desirable)
• 5 years' experience within IT environment as a project manager 
• Experience in the wholesale or retail environment
• Working with multiple cross-skilled teams, including remote / offshore teams
• Experience managing teams delivering IT implementations and involving cross-functional teams in waterfall and agile environments

Knowledge

• Understanding of web solution development and related technologies
• Knowledge of application development methodologies, agile and related techniques (e.g. Kanban, DevSecOPS)
• Business acumen

Skills

• Ability to contextualise solutions within business environment
• Conceptual reasoning skills
• Analytical reasoning skills
• Project Management
• Communication skills
• Presentation skills
• Continuous improvement skills

Competencies

• Collaborative
• Analytical
• Ability to tolerate stress
• People Management