Jobs at BETSoftware

You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree/National Diploma.
• Relevant Project Management Certifications: PMP, Prince II, Scrum Master.
• At least 5 years of project management experience, specifically software development projects.
• At least 5 years’ experience with full product lifecycle, with an understanding of development lifecycle and various technology methodologies that support that lifecycle.
• Advanced level of proficiency with MS Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and SharePoint, with experience presenting to stakeholders and/or Senior Leadership.
• Excellent experience in Software Development Lifecycle Methodologies such as Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall, Kanban, etc.
• Strong leadership, diplomatic, and motivational skills, including the ability to lead up, across, and down multiple business and technology organizations.
• Tools: MS Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint; CA Clarity PPM, MS TFS/Azure DevOps, Dynatrace.
• Strong experience presenting to executive sponsors and demonstrated communication skills, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical team members at all levels of management.
• High levels of influence.

What You’ll Do:

• Defines the Statement of Work and Specifications for the requested project work.
• Owns the full project lifecycle, which entails successful project delivery including full implementation from initiation to deployment for one large and complex project or several minor initiatives simultaneously.
• Manages all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives.
• Participates in establishing practices, templates, tools, and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organisation.
• Prepares estimates and detailed project plans for all phases of the project.
• Works in collaboration with Team Leads to procure adequate resources to achieve project objectives within planned timeframes.
• Demonstrates a functional acumen to support how solutions will address client goals while maintaining alignment with industry best practices.
• Understands interdependencies between technology, operations, and business needs.
• Manages project scope and changes with all stakeholders and Teams on the ground effectively.
• Acts as an internal quality control check for the project.
• Manages a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business.
• Reports on project success criteria, results, metrics, test, and deployment management activities.
• Determines the frequency and content of status reports from the project and program Team, analyses results, and troubleshoots problem areas.
• Provides status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues, communicating across leadership.
• Defines success criteria and disseminates them to the involved parties throughout the project and program life cycle.
• Identifies and develops trusted adviser relationships with project stakeholders and sponsors.
• Delivers appropriate, consistent, and effective executive-level communication throughout the project life cycle.
• Develops and maintains a good understanding of BET’s stakeholder landscape, interactions, and linkages across the organisation and its potential future movement.
• Builds and maintains positive relationships with internal peers and other Team members, in ways that help to deliver the company strategy as a whole.
• Develops a position as a leader among one or more external networks and uses this to maximise BET Software’s influence and credibility.

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You Bring:

• At least 3-5 years’ experience within a development environment is advantageous.
• 2 - 5 years database experience
• 3 -5 years server/client- side languages is advantageous.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.

What You’ll Do:

Technical Outputs:

Perform Planning

• Identify and establish objectives for self and team.
• Work on objectives or goals within timeline.
• Consider all reasonable factors, impediments and obstacles.
• Identify potential alternative strategies and refactor approach for maximum benefit within the shortest possible time.

Implementation- Ensure the solution is functionally complete

• Deliver a solution which covers all the agreed specified tasks and user objectives.
• Deliver a correct solution which provides the correct results with the needed degree of precision.
• Ensure checked in code is reviewed to ensure standards are met.

Implementation- Build Reliable Solutions

• Design solutions that perform consistently under pressure and require minimal intervention.
• Minimise faults through clear requirements, solid design, and accurate implementation.
• Ensure robustness, high availability, and quick recovery from outages or attacks.
• Improve fault tolerance and maintainability, reducing downtime over time.
• Build for long-term durability as user needs evolve. Simplify support with clear traceability and helpful error messages.
• Continuously improve reliability so the system needs fewer fixes to stay up.

Implementation- Build Secure Solutions

• Ensure the solution protects data and maintains confidentiality, with appropriate access control.
• Safeguard integrity by preventing unauthorised access or changes.
• Design for resilience against attacks, errors, and faults.
• Use logs to create a clear, verifiable audit trail, with traceable and authenticated user actions wherever possible.

Implementation- Ensure Maintainability

• Design the solution for easy updates and long-term support, using clear standards and modular architecture.
• Aim for minimal developer intervention by enabling support team maintenance where possible.
• Provide thorough documentation, encourage reusability, and build in self-diagnostic capabilities to catch issues early.
• Prioritise clean, adaptable code to reduce future defects.

Verify Deployed Solutions

• Ensure the solution is delivered completely and with the additional assets which are required to make installation/deployment as seamless and easy as possible.
• Ensure the adaptable solution delivered is appropriate for different or evolving, software or other operational usage environments.

Respond to outages & Failures

• Provide proactive support to Peers, Testing, Dev Support and Operational teams so number of escalations to the development team is reduced, thereby maximising development time.
• Provide support to the Dev Support when required during operational events and create or assist with the creation of SOP’s.
• Be available to handle emergency outages and failures for your or your teams’
• Perform trouble shooting and effectively resolve issues to increase solution stability and reduce intervention required over time.
• Recommend and execute approved improvements to development methods and solutions.
• Provide quick resolutions to app/system issues, driving stability, efficiency and effectiveness.
• Maintain solutions which have completed development and are in the operations phase.
• Develop and maintain technical support documentation.
• Assess risk and impact of production issues/changes and take appropriate steps to mitigate risk.

Direct 3rd party development partners

• When required supply appropriate information, domain knowledge and access to partners.
• Provide timely, relevant and constructive feedback to assist the partner to achieve success.
• Take corrective action when deviation from the plan is observed.
• Take all appropriate steps to ensure organisational success.