Technical Manager - Group Functions and Middleware at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

Manages delivery of key strategic initiatives by engaging with specialist teams and working with individual specialists to maximise productive resource utilisation whilst ensuring individual job challenge and personal growth of team members.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical guidance to team and IT partners.
• Assist and guide architectural roadmap for teams.
• Collaborate with business and IT partners.
• Provide technical and line manager support for developers in the team including performance management.
• Play a key role in helping #OneIT achieve Liberty’s North Star digital ambitions.
• Assist the Developer Chapter in driving and implementing key initiatives.

Minimum Experience

• 5-10 years IT Application Development Experience with strong leadership experience
• Accountable for maintaining quality, service and outputs related to a work area, ensuring compliance with set policy, procedures and standards.
• Proactively identify operational problems, determine cause and effect, select and implement the best solution to solve problems based on previous experience and understanding of the context.
• Plan for and organise multiple work activities for team execution by assigning priorities against the set framework in light of the specific situational context.
• Maintains a professional and mature approach to solving managerial and complex personal and interpersonal issues.

Additional Minimum Experience

• Answers difficult or challenging questions about a particular project or a technical direction by providing or finding answers to technically ambiguous or challenging issues.
• Manages ambiguity and makes tough choices by keeping in mind the big picture whilst simultaneously understanding the high-level engineering details.
• Provides the team with a sounding board to help resolve difficult engineering problems. and makes insightful and relevant suggestions on how to solve engineering challenges.
• Reviews the decisions the team makes to ensure consistency and alignment with the vision and strategic direction. Adjusts decisions by using team members suggestions and validates best solutions.
• Exemplifies technical excellence and productivity for the rest of the team. Team members look to emulate technical manager as mentor for technical excellence, guidance judgement, counsel and maturity in solving business software engineering projects.

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelors Degree (preferably Computer Science)
• Skilled in Agile(SaFE) methodology a bonus