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  • Posted: Dec 21, 2020
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Momentum Metropolitan Holdings, formerly MMI Holdings, is a South African-based financial services group was established on 1 Dec 2010, through the merger of Metropolitan and Momentum. We are specialists in long and short-term insurance, asset management, savings, investments, healthcare administration, health risk management, employee benefits and reward...
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    Java Development Manager

    Role Purpose

    • Manage and guide a team of developers in their day-to-day activities in an efficient and professional manner, ensuring all team targets are met.

    Internal Process

    • Analyse and solve problems identified by the business and stakeholders through the coordination of the development team
    • Manage, monitor and control the analysis, design, implementation and execution of software development within the development team
    • Extend and maintain existing and new software systems and services according to business needs.
    • Continuously improve code quality, system design and processes
    • Collaborate with the business to understand and implement complex requirements according to their needs
    • Communicate with a broader team that includes analysts, engineers and quality assurance testers in order to coordinate and document development and testing
    • Review and quality assure deliverables in order to ensure quality standards are upheld
    • Manage the development schedule and monitor, measure, control and report on development progress including the quality status and unit testing results
    • Ensure the development environment is suitable before development begins and is managed during the software development life cycle (SDLC)
    • Represent the development team in management, business and inter-team meetings, such as Change Advisory Board (CAB)
    • Collaborator between operations team and development team
    • Be actively involved during high priority operational issues

    Client

    • Provide authoritative expertise and advice to clients and stakeholders
    • Build and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with clients and stakeholders
    • Deliver on service level agreements made with clients and stakeholders in order to ensure that expectations are managed
    • Participate and contribute to a culture which builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional client service

    People

    • Create a positive work climate and culture to energise employees, give meaning to work, minimise work disruption and maximise employee productivity
    • Demonstrate exemplary leadership behaviour, through personal involvement, commitment and dedication in support of organisational values
    • Assist with recruiting suitably qualified talent in line with Employment Equity principles and Momentum Metropolitan values
    • Drive a culture that guides and directs best practice, fostering an environment of continuous learning, improvement and cohesiveness
    • Enable a learning and growth culture whereby information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared between team members
    • Assist in effective workforce planning practices to ensure that staffing requirements are accurately forecasted
    • Identify employee growth and development needs and schedule interventions to enable ongoing development, training and personal growth
    • Effectively manage performance within the team in order to ensure business objectives are achieved
    • Encourage innovation, change agility and collaboration within the team

    Finance

    • Contribute to the development of area specific budgets to minimise expenditure, in alignment with operational plans
    • Identify solutions to enhance cost effectiveness and increase operational efficiency
    • Implement and provide input into governance processes, systems and legislation within area of specialisation
    • Escalate unresolved policy and governance compliance issues via appropriate channels for investigation and resolution purposes
    • Provide input into the risk identification processes development and communicate recommendations in the appropriate forum

    Competencies required

    • Knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
    • Knowledge of relevant systems and products
    • Communication skills
    • Planning and organising skills
    • Interpersonal skills
    • Problem-solving skills
    • Analytical skills
    • People management skills
    • Providing Insights
    • Making Decisions
    • Directing People
    • Team Working
    • Meeting Timescales
    • Managing Tasks
    • Taking Action
    • Pursuing Goals

    Experience and Qualifications

    • 5-7 years' senior development experience
    • 2-3 years' management experience
    • Relevant IT qualification
    • Relevant post graduate IT qualification

    We reserve the right not to fill the vacancy. Should you not receive any response in respect of your application within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited on www.linkedin.com to apply

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