Software Engineering Manager at Discovery Limited

• Key Purpose
  A Software Engineering Manager is accountable for the delivery of products and services and the performance of a Software Engineering team.
• You will build and maintain teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well. You will identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them, focusing the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services.
• You will need to provide technical leadership, line management and coaching and mentoring and take full responsibility for all work delivered by the software engineering teams, ensuring delivery on time, with reference to budget and with a high level of quality.
• You will be quick on your feet to respond to change in a fast-paced environment utilising the best of Agile and Scrum Practices.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:
The Software Engineering Manager is accountable for managing the Software Engineering teams to:

• Implement the software development lifecycle
• Deliver to standards
• Provide integrated solutions
• Engage stakeholders
• Build and transfer skills and knowledge
• Collaborate within and across teams

Personal Attributes and Skills
Behavioral competencies

• Agile and Lean practices
  Commercial management
  Communication skills
  Financial management
  Life-cycle perspective
  Maintaining delivery momentum
  Making a process work
  Planning
  Team dynamics and collaboration

Education & Experience
Education

• Bachelors degree or equivalent qualification
  BCom (Informatics) BSc (Compute Science or Information Systems) or Engineering is advantageous

Experience

• Degree level or equivalent + 5 years work experience as a manager.