Core Purpose Of The Job: To effectively and efficiently manage the Developers to ensure quality development delivery with minimal returns from testing

KEY OBJECTIVE

• Improved quality
• Reduced or no re-work/service

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• 5 years’ experience with design patterns
• 1 – 3 years’ team lead experience
• 3 years’ architecture experience
• 3 years’ experience with mobile applications
• Configure and optimize applications
• Ability to liaise with stakeholders on all levels
• Ability to work with data and computer programs to build system solutions
• Write technical specifications
• Implement and develop reports on MS reporting services

EXPERIENCE (Minimum necessary before being considered for the Job)

• 1-3 years team lead experience
• 6-10 years relevant IT experience; SQL, .net, C#, visual studio

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to interface with users, management, external IT service providers
• Good communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Organising ability and skills
• Strong leadership qualities
• Ensure developers comply with standards
• Objective
• Patient
• Project wide perspective
• Resourceful

COMPETENCIES

• Communication
• Contributing to Team Success
• Decision Making
• Work Standards
• Applied Learning
• Customer Focus
• Planning and Organising

DUTIES

• Planning and management of Developers:
• Strategic and operational plans for the Developers to be run past Manager. 
• Ensure implementation of the approved plans by supervising staff. 
• Monitors and review plans on an ongoing basis.
• Design, develop, enhance and maintain computer systems
• Write technical specifications
• Configure and optimize applications
• Design, develop, enhance and maintain system reports
• Recommend ideas and solutions.
• Perform research and development of ideas and concepts
• Interface with users, management, external IT service providers
• Ensure that developers solutions are in conformity with the system architecture

Reports and Meeting attendance:

• Produce unit reports on a monthly basis. 
• Project to project reports and ad hoc reports
• Unit meetings
• Ad hoc meetings

Project management:

• Allocate and supervise work of project team

Ensure compliance:

• Ensure compliance with mandatory requirements and all applicable international and bilateral agreements

Management of staff:

• Provide developer support and coaching through frequent informal and formal discussions
• Ensure developers comply with standards and procedure
• Implements and use the performance management system fully in order to monitor the performance of subordinates

Ref: JHB001115/AE