Development Team Leader : Ibmi

Momentum Life; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 500 000 - 700 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider in South Africa seeks a Team Lead to manage a development team. This role involves ensuring quality deliverables, solving business problems, and fostering a collaborative team environment. The ideal candidate should have 5-7 years of development experience and a relevant IT qualification. Strong leadership and communication skills are essential for engaging with clients and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years' development experience required.
• Ability to manage and guide a team effectively.
• Strong communication skills for stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of developers in daily activities.
• Analyse and solve problems identified by the business.
• Ensure quality standards are upheld in deliverables.
• Participate actively in team and management meetings.

Skills

Team leadership

Problem-solving

Client management

Software development life cycle (SDLC)

Education

Relevant IT qualification

Job description

Role Purpose

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.

Requirements

• Relevant IT qualification
• Knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• 5-7 years' development experience

Duties & Responsibilities

• Analyse and solve problems identified by the business and stakeholders through the coordination of the development team.
• Manage, monitor and control the analysis, design, implementation and execution of software development within the development team.
• Extend and maintain existing and new software systems and services according to business needs.
• Continuously improve code quality, system design and processes.
• Collaborate with the business to understand and implement complex requirements according to their needs.
• Communicate with a broader team that includes analysts, engineers and quality assurance testers in order to coordinate and document development and testing.
• Review and quality‑assure deliverables in order to ensure quality standards are upheld.
• Manage the development schedule and monitor, measure, control and report on development progress including the quality status and unit testing results.
• Ensure the development environment is suitable before development begins and is managed during the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Represent the development team in management, business and inter‑team meetings, such as Change Advisory Board (CAB).

Client

• Provide authoritative expertise and advice to clients and stakeholders.
• Build and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with clients and stakeholders.
• Deliver on service level agreements made with clients and stakeholders in order to ensure that expectations are managed.
• Participate and contribute to a culture which builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional client service.

People

• Create a positive work climate and culture to energise employees, give meaning to work, minimise work disruption and maximise employee productivity.
• Demonstrate exemplary leadership behaviour, through personal involvement, commitment and dedication in support of organisational values.
• Assist with recruiting suitably qualified talent in line with Employment Equity principles and Momentum Metropolitan values.
• Drive a culture that guides and directs best practice, fostering an environment of continuous learning, improvement and cohesiveness.
• Enable a learning and growth culture whereby information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared between team members.
• Assist in effective workforce planning practices to ensure that staffing requirements are accurately forecasted.
• Identify employee growth and development needs and schedule interventions to enable ongoing development, training and personal growth.
• Effectively manage performance within the team in order to ensure business objectives are achieved.
• Encourage innovation, change agility and collaboration within the team.

Key Competencies

• Providing Insights
• Making Decisions
• Directing People
• Team Working
• Meeting Timescales
• Managing Tasks
• Taking Action