Development Manager

- Align delivery to business requirements and build trust with internal clients.

- Understand business systems, process context, impact and risks; participate in client forums, MANCO, EXCO and planning sessions.

- Own SDLC activities: prioritisation, scheduling, build, test, deliver, fix and change requests.

- Capacity management: delegate tasks, review execution and coach team members.

- Ensure technical application capacity exists and produce capacity plans.

- Adhere to quality, standards, SLAs, PM and SDLC standards; recommend process improvements.

- Act as project manager for selected projects and drive production issues to resolution.

- Lead human capital management: skills development, coaching, recruitment, performance management and conflict management.

- Contribute to systems strategy and technical direction.

- Matric.

- BSc in Computer Science / Information Systems or equivalent IT tertiary qualification.

- Management development courses advantageous.

- Knowledge of ITIL (Incident, Change, Release, Problem Management).

- SDLC experience; Agile methodology advantageous.

- Minimum 8-10 years systems development experience.

- Minimum 3-5 years managing a software development team for large commercial entities, or demonstrated leadership capability.

- Exposure driving key strategic initiatives in a business unit.

- Strong delivery focus, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills.