Software Engineering Manager

Boardroom Appointments; Pretoria; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking a Software Engineering Manager in a hybrid role based in Pretoria. You will lead the software engineering lifecycle, coordinate with product, business and tech teams, and drive delivery excellence across multiple projects.

You will mentor engineers, manage backlogs and roadmaps, and ensure high-quality software aligned with business goals while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.

Qualifications

• Experience leading end-to-end software development lifecycles.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration across business and tech teams.
• Ability to mentor, coach and develop engineering staff.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end product/project lifecycle stages as applicable.
• Drive customer-oriented mindset within the team and align strategy with business needs.
• Define and track product/business benefits and ensure regulatory/compliance adherence.
• Prioritise backlogs, plan roadmaps and manage delivery with risk mitigation.
• Bridge business and technical stakeholders to remove bottlenecks and accelerate delivery.
• Manage budgets, recruitment, performance development and team growth.

Job description

About the job Software Engineering Manager

Hybrid position

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for each phase of the end-to-end Product/Project life cycle as applicable.
• Where applicable this includes inception, requirements, analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, infrastructure, capacity, performance, support, monitoring, and decommissioning as appropriate.
• Customer orientation - Responsible for creating and propagating a customer-orientated attitude within the team, whilst identifying and understanding the needs of all customers, and managing their expectations.
• Aligning product/project strategy with the business, customers (internal and external), and technology through collaboration.
• Ensure products/projects are compliant as required and remain relevant where applicable.
• Define, track and measure product business benefits realisation
• Maintains technical understanding and product(s) knowledge as well as general group product knowledge.
• Accountable for the reporting and analysis of the relevant performance metrics.
• Prioritisation and planning of Backlogs / Demand Pipelines and, where applicable, Product Roadmaps
• Ensures that company standards and processes are adhered to
• Understand the business requirements and plan what is to be implemented and when
• Removes any bottlenecks preventing software delivery
• Bridge the gap between the business and the technical stakeholders
• Ensure risk mitigation plans are in place.
• Accountable for the software engineering life cycle
• Participates in the recruitment of new staff, when necessary
• Manages direct and indirect reports
• Ensures that the team is appropriately resourced and members are equipped with the requisite skill set required for both current and future projects
• Developing a training and career development plan for each team member
• Facilitate regular performance development conversations and drive agreed actions to support team members' growth as well as their contribution to the team and company culture
• Facilitates mentoring and coaching, as required
• Manage relevant team budgets
• Ensures that the team is aligned with the company strategy and working towards achieving the strategy
• Provides feedback to your manager on a regular basis, regarding team performance as well as product and project progress as applicable
• Leads with a software engineering mindset
• Continuously reviews processes (including inner sourcing) to maximize team and company wide efficiencies
• This would include software engineering maturity best practices
• Continuously aim to improve the quality of the software and team effectiveness
• Continuously aim to automate as much of the development, testing, deployment and monitoring aspects of our software
• Stay abreast of software engineering best practices in the market to inform opportunities for improvement.
• Drive and communicate with peers and other active parties to drive the improvement of processes
• Continuously align with stakeholders to ensure adoption of change, integration and collaboration between dependent teams, products and services
• Effectively resolve escalated issues to ensure delivery and good stakeholder relationships
• Manage issues with appropriate urgency which includes resolution and communication with stakeholders in conjunction with the support process.
• Create and execute product/project technical and operational strategy that aligns with portfolio and group taking into consideration Products, Markets, Customers and Services.
• Facilitates an understanding of competitor analysis and market research to identify areas of opportunity and risk
• Aligns with other teams as required to achieve objectives