Jobs at Derivco

The Head of Estates and Facilities will be involved in ensuring the implementation of a Facilities strategy across our Derivco locations. You will lead the facilities team to ensure efficient and high quality delivery of all facilities offerings to Derivco staff. The role will also be involved in developing proposals and project plans to ensure Derivco facilities reflect our culture and principles. You will actively seek feedback from Derivco employees on how our facilities can be improved, and research local and global external trends to ensure our facilities offerings are current and relevant.

Working closely with senior internal stakeholders and external partners and providing strategic leadership and direction to Derivco’s facilities team, the role will ensure highest levels of resource quality, compliance, leadership and commercial awareness across all owned and leased estates.

Responsibilities

• Strategic and Functional Leadership
• Provide overall departmental leadership to the Facilities Team
• Professionally lead the estate and facilities services to ensure the delivery of high quality services from the resources available and in line with relevant policies, procedures and practices.
• Develop and maintain relationships with all internal & external maintenance and/or service teams.
• Chair the building planning committee.
• Ensure direct reports are suitably trained on all facilities policies, procedures and systems.
• Manage staff performance and facilitate improvement through regular performance monitoring and feedback, to ensure work standards, quality control, safety standards, cost optimization, and timely execution as per service standard, work instruction and requirements.
• Actively encourage an environment that supports teamwork, co-operation and performance excellence by participating in objective setting, plan development and performance reviews to ensure team effectiveness.
• Manage department performance and facilitate employee development through the performance development framework.
• Actively encourage an environment that supports teamwork, co-operation and performance excellence by leading department OKRs and KPIs.
• Oversee contractors’ relationships and engagements, ensuring they are streamlined and cost effective.

Requirements

• Diploma or degree in Facilities Management, Engineering or Property Management
• 8-10 years’ experience in a senior facilities management role
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong customer-service orientation
• Project Management experience
• Knowledge and understanding of relevant local laws and regulations
• Able to multitask
• Good problem-solving skills
• Strong organizational skills

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We are looking for someone to provide technical mentorship and coaching within our New Product team, who can contribute to technical decisions that promote the strategic goals set. This role is required to analyse, design, and produce quality software and documentation, while implementing and maintaining development standards and processes that improve efficiency and productivity.

The New Product team has defined its own culture through the people that have joined over time. We value treating one another with kindness and respect, and rely on trust to define our boundaries instead of setting rigid rules. Each team member is here to improve themselves and the products they are working on, while taking personal responsibility of their work and actions to meet the team’s ultimate goals.

If you consider yourself to be highly innovative and interested in creating unique games, then we are your team!

Key Responsibilities

Develop and Maintain Software

• Acquire and maintain in-depth knowledge of the product. Provide technical mentorship on the project complexity, scope and risk for the product. Analyse requirements and create an appropriate software design. Guide team members with their requirement analysis and design. Collaborate with senior colleagues in creating and maintaining the team's SDLC. Communicate status and escalate on risks and issues timeously. Comprehensively create and maintain documentation of the software, system design and implementation. Create appropriate task estimates and review them with the team. Maintain, adhere to and oversee application of development and documentation standards, and team processes. Develop and release software to meet the defined specifications within the agreed time. Maintenance performed should not compromise the quality or functionality of the software.

Growth of People

• Agree to a technical coaching strategy with team leadership and play an active role in coaching. Take advantage of opportunities to provide technical help with the aim to upskill other team members.

Knowledge Sharing

• Proactively share knowledge about the operational environment. Readily share knowledge within the team and with key stakeholders.

Safeguarding Architecture

• Ensure the team's products use appropriate technologies while staying abreast of new technologies. Good understanding of the product lifecycle, including production environments and operational overheads. Seek to understand the business drivers for the team's products and ensures that the architectural vision and design solution align with these business drivers. Works with other senior developers and architects to create and maintain the architectural vision for the team's products.

Software Quality

• Actively drive the improvement of the team's quality standards and processes. Review and fix all defects found as per the defined quality standards. Facilitate team code reviews with the aim to improve the quality of the team's software and upskilling of other team members. Help others improve the quality of their work. Ensure software functions as per the defined specification. Take full ownership of quality by working with the QA team to ensure the test plans are of a high quality and cover the full scope of development. Test all changes made and ensure that existing functionality works as expected. Test software as per the team's software quality charter.

Support and Maintenance

• Provide effective and timely feedback on support issues. Provide support for product related issues in production with appropriate urgency, as well as support to dependent teams.

Required Skills

And Experience

• Minimum 3-year relevant qualification and at least 5 years software development experience OR Relevant 1-year certification and at least 7 years software development experience OR Minimum 8 years software development experience
• Coding experience in:
  • JavaScript ES5/ES6
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • C#
  • .Net