Technical/Program Manager

Impronics Technologies; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Impronics Technologies in Johannesburg is seeking a hands-on Technical/Program Manager to align engineering efforts with system mission and product goals. You will work with system architect, product managers, and owners to define roadmaps, service ownership, and delivery quality across multiple platform teams.

The role emphasizes mentoring engineers, driving continuous improvement, managing vendor selection, and applying agile practices and testing to enable business capabilities for clients

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent is required.

Responsibilities

• Establish clear content authority in collaboration with system architect/engineer, product manager and product owners to align team to the system mission and vision, road maps and service ownership requirements.
• Collaborate with multiple platform teams and maintain continuous integration standards.
• Develop and mature the engineering team by training/mentoring members.
• Contribute specialist knowledge of technological landscape to the team.
• Direct the delivery and quality of the Technical solution.
• Drive a culture of relentless improvement.
• Influence Business Unit thinking and across the Technical landscape.
• Escalation point for improving performance and development of resources.
• Lead problem identification, root cause analysis and decision making.

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent

Job description

Job Description: Technical/Program Manager

We aspire to build a high-quality, innovative & robust software.If you are a hands-on platform builder with significant experience in developing scalable data platforms, look no further.

Your responsibilities as an Engineer:

• Establish clear content authority in collaboration with the system architect/engineer, product manager and product owners to align team to the system mission and vision, road maps as well as system service ownership requirements.
• Able to collaborate with multiple platform teams and maintain continuous integration standards
• Develop and mature the competency of the engineering team by training/mentoring the team members.
• Contribute specialist knowledge of technological landscape to the team
• Direct the delivery and quality of the Technical solution
• Drive a culture of relentless improvement
• Influence the thinking of the Business Unit and expert influence across the Technical landscape
• Escalation point for the management of improvement of performance and development of functional resources
• Listen and direct teams in problem identification, root cause analysis and decision making.
• Look actively for opportunities to short development timelines, improve skills of the teamand improve cost efficiency of application development activities.
• Spending 30-50% of the time leading engineering practice activities across all release trains within the program.
• Oversee the containment of Technical debt level and that re-factoring/ remediation/ simplification takes place on a regular basis.
• Set the parameter and guide the selection of most appropriate vendor with required expertise to meet the requirements for capacity and capability building
• Provide or make available, expert knowledge knowledge of prototype, creation, module and solution design, and development using agile methodologies and continuous testing to enable target business capabilities/ client/ employee journeys.
• Realize technology and operations strategic objectives by driving the implementation of new and relevant Technical capabilities.

Experience & Pedigree:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent