Technical Manager II - CAD Product at Woolworths

Introduction

• Provides technical leadership, people leadership and coaching to team to enable successful delivery and maintenance of all bespoke solutions impacting Product.
• Job descriptionLead and mentor a team of technical professionals, providing guidance and support in their daily tasks and career development.Facilitates regular performance development conversations and drives agreed actions to support team members' growth as well as their contribution to the team and           company culture.Fosters a collaborative and innovative work environment that encourages teamwork and knowledge sharing.Develop and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders to ensure operational efficiency.Guides, reviews, and approves technical solution designs, emphasizing a commitment to fostering a reusable API environment and embracing a cloud-first architecture     when suitable.Provides technical leadership ensuring team is aligned and delivers to the software engineering strategy, patterns and standards that respect compliance, security,     operational best practice, and best possible user experience.Drives developer training plans and on-boarding to ensure relevant and up to date digital development skills are available.Collaborates with the leadership team to set development technologies, architectures, coding standards and processes that enable a speed with quality agile delivery culture.Manage issues with appropriate urgency which includes resolution and communication with stakeholders in conjunction with the support procedures.Leads by example and is able to get into the technical details of the development landscape when needed.Understand the IT and Business strategy and translate into a one-year systems operating plan.

Minimum requirements

• Qualifications – NQF8 level in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent with experience in software development.
• 5 -10 years software development experience (C#, .Net, .NET Core, Python,Java)
• 2 years as a Solution Architect.
• Minimum 2 years people management
• Cloud Computing -Saas (AWS or Azure) exposure
• 3 to 5 years working in a lead or management role.

ADDITIONAL CRITERIA

• Tech savvy - Anticipates and adopts innovations in business-building digital and technology applications.
• Action oriented - Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Communicates effectively - Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences, enabling you to influence change within an enterprise environment.
• Manages Complexity - Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Collaborates - Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objective.