Synopsis:
Leading Sandton based financial services provider is looking to appoint a suitably skilled and experienced individual to manage software development team and ensure that projects are completed on time and on / under budget.

Minimum Requirements:

• Matric with minimum 7 years application development experience
• IT Degree
• ITIL V3 Foundations
• Information System: Internet Development
• Information System: Software Development
• Business Operations
• MS Office Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint, OneNote, Project and Visio
• MS Windows
• Linux
• Network (LAN, WAN, TCP/IP)
• SQL Server (2005, 2008 and 2012)
• MySQL
• Relational Database Modelling and Design
• Pervasive
• C#
• PHP
• XML, XSLT, XPath
• CSS
• HTML5 and XHTML
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• ASP.NET
• Java
• AJAX
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Web Service development
• Software Engineering

Job Description:
Suitably skilled and experienced individual to manage software development team and ensure that projects are completed on time and on / under budget.

Responsibilities include:

• Team management and leadership:
  • Providing technical leadership through design and code reviews and ensuring best technical practices are applied
  • Implementing Agile Development practices
  • Troubleshooting development environment, production environment, performance tuning and optimising code
  • Ensuring knowledge transfer and minimizing key man dependency
  • Participating in interview process for developers
  • Monitoring individual team members to identify and schedule required training
  • Providing project status reports to management
  • Coordinating with internal and external customers as required
  • Recognising when architects need to become involved and standing in for architects when necessary
  • Assisting development team in ensuring all policies and procedures are followed
• Software solution design:
  •  Delivering software engineering practices
  • Participating in Release and Iteration Planning meetings with engineers and users
  • Assisting with design of software solutions
  • Assisting with physical and logical database design and ability to interpret design diagrams and documents
  • Thorough understanding of software engineering techniques such as the use of:
    • UML (Unified Modelling Language)
    • SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle)
    • TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework)
  • Keeping up-to-date on software standards, including standards of quality, security and compliance (SAS 70)
• Software solution development:
  • Successfully interpreting design documentation and building software solutions according to specified requirements
  • Developing and testing technical solutions using development tools applicable to team
  • Solution reviews
  • Providing constructive feedback for improvement after solution reviews
• Task and time management:
  • Interpreting project and development plans and have understanding of project roles, goals and timelines
  • Managing time effectively during task execution in order to meet assigned milestones
  • Establishing responsible deadlines for reporting staff and personal work plans
• Communicating with team members or stakeholders re technical design and solution implementation
•  Utilising team collaboration tools such as document libraries, source control and email
• Attending meetings in order to understand customer requirements, make design decisions and report on progress
• Assisting with installation of hardware environments
• Providing guidance re hardware requirements to host software solutions