Position Summary:
Manage and guide a team of developers in their day-to-day activities in an efficient and professional manner, ensuring all team targets are met.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver on service level agreements made with clients and stakeholders in order to ensure that
- Assist with recruiting suitably qualified talent in line with Employment Equity principles and Momentum Metropolitan values.
- Ensure the development environment is suitable before development begins and is managed during the software development life cycle (SDLC).
- Identify employee growth and development needs and schedule interventions to enable ongoing development, training and personal growth.
- Review and quality assure deliverables in order to ensure quality standards are upheld.
expectations are managed. - Manage the development schedule and monitor, measure, control and report on development progress including the quality status and unit testing results.
- Provide authoritative expertise and advice to clients and stakeholders.
- Manage, monitor and control the analysis, design, implementation and execution of software development within the development team.
- Participate and contribute to a culture which builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional client service.
- Build and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with clients and stakeholders.
- Drive a culture that guides and directs best practice, fostering an environment of continuous learning, improvement and cohesiveness.
- Extend and maintain existing and new software systems and services according to business needs.
- Assist in effective workforce planning practices to ensure that staffing requirements are accurately forecasted.
- Communicate with a broader team that includes analysts, architects and quality assurance testers in order to coordinate and document development and testing.
- Continuously improve code quality, system design and processes.
- Collaborate with the business to understand and implement complex requirements according to their needs.
- Enable a learning and growth culture whereby information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared between team members.
Required Education & Experience:
- Knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Administrative Skills
- 7-10 years RPG experience
- Relevant post graduate IT qualification
- Interpersonal skills
- 5-7 years’ senior development experience (essential)
- Problem-solving skills
- Relevant IT qualification
- Analytical skills
- Knowledge of the IBMi
- 2-3 years’ management experience (essential)
- Insurance Knowledge
- People management skills
- Communication skills
- Knowledge of relevant systems and products
- Planning and organising skills