Head of IT - Cape Town - PartnerUp (Pty) Ltd

PartnerUp (Pty) Ltd; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Software Development Manager to provide strategic direction and oversee technical product delivery and team management. This role demands extensive experience in software development management, budgeting, and stakeholder engagement, in an agile environment to ensure product excellence.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years' experience in software development management.
• Experience in an agile development environment.
• Skill in crafting roadmaps, managing budgets, and leading technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee efficiency, optimisation, and innovation in team environments.
• Manage third-party relationships and budget control.
• Deliver system changes and enhancements to products.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal & relationship management skills

Decision making skills

Negotiation skills

Influencing skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Commerce or Information Technology - Computer Science

Honours Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science

Job description

Purpose Statement:
Provide strategic technical direction and manage multiple technical teams responsible for the technical delivery of the full product lifecycle; all product features and support and maintenance related tasks in respect of the product.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee the ongoing drive to increase efficiency, optimisation, innovation and people development in these environments.
• Provide software services to a product by delivering system changes and enhancements
• Risk and control / compliance
• Third party relationship management
• People management
• Budgeting, control and reporting

Job Requirements:
Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Commerce or Information Technology - Computer Science. Ideal: Honours Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science Information Technology - Systems Engineering.
Knowledge & Experience: Minimum 5 years' experience in software development management. Experience of leading and working in an agile development environment, crafting roadmaps, managing a budget, using technical skills to support and guide a technical team, establishing priorities and successfully managing deliverables, utilizing communication and relationship management skills to engage with stakeholders, and using leadership to influence in other areas.

Detailed Knowledge and Understanding:
Functional knowledge particular to the product (e.g. Credit or App), people management and development practices and principles, stakeholder management, budgeting and accounting principles, business analysis and design, project management principles and methodologies, banking industry, central collections environment, Capitec Bank Systems Environment, Capitec Bank Business Model, agile development principles, and systems development life cycle (SDLC).

Skills:
Communication skills, interpersonal & relationship management skills, decision making skills, negotiation skills, influencing skills.

Competencies:
Deciding and initiating, leading and supervising, working with people, planning and organising, relating and networking, customer expectations, persuading and influencing, presenting and communicating, adapting and responding to change, writing and reporting, applying expertise and technology, achieving personal work goals and objectives, analysing, entrepreneurial and commercial thinking.