Our client is one of the leading IT consultancy firms in South Africa. Their growth this year has been phenomenal with an increasing number of projects and monthly hires due to the company's growth and success. We are looking for the ideal candidate to join their team. If you think you have what it takes, you know what to do!!

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: JHB001120/UZ