Technical Systems Manager (E-Commerce)

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; Presencial; ZAR 900 000 - 1 500 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Boardroom Appointments seeks a Technical Systems Manager (E-Commerce) to lead a product-focused tech team, shaping the technology strategy and ensuring robust, scalable Magento and PIM architecture. You will drive cross-functional collaboration, mentor engineers, and align system design with business goals.

The role requires deep IT management experience in product environments, strong stakeholder skills, and a track record of delivering value with Agile practices in e-commerce.

Qualificações

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or information technology
• 10+ years experience in an IT management role in a product-focused business
• Experience in managing budgets and resource requirements effectively
• E-commerce industry experience and knowledge
• 5+ years experience in an Agile environment
• 5+ years experience with a headless Magento and Akeneo PIM implementation

Responsabilidades

• Manage multiple business stakeholders
• Accountable for delivery of value as defined by Product owner and ensure quality solutions and system stability
• Define and maintain long term Product Technology Roadmap(s) and align with company technology strategy
• Provide subject matter expertise on best practices in the product team environment
• Apply product and organizational knowledge to lead the product team
• Accountable for overall system design & technology choices
• Identify and manage technical debt
• Provide technical mentoring to the team
• Accountable for team documentation
• Create User Stories and Technical documentation to expand on business requirements (including System interaction diagrams, Wireframes)
• Accountable for team time logging
• Hold team and individuals accountable to their commitments
• Evaluate performance of team members
• Provide technical status updates (also in cross-team projects)
• Represent scrum team at cross-team meetings

Conhecimentos

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Bachelor's degree in information technology

Ferramentas

Headless Magento

Akeneo PIM

Descrição da oferta de emprego

About the job Technical Systems Manager (E-Commerce)

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple business stakeholders
• Accountable for the delivery of value as defined by the Product owner and ensure quality solutions and system stability
• Define and maintain long term Product Technology Roadmap(s) and align with company technology strategy.
• Provide subject matter expertise on best practices in the product team environment.
• Apply product and organizational knowledge to lead the product team
• Accountable for overall system design & technology choices
• Identify and manage technical debt
• Provide technical mentoring to the team
• Accountable for team documentation
• Create User Stories and Technical documentation to expand on business requirements (including System interaction diagrams, Wireframes)
• Accountable for team time logging
• Hold team and individuals accountable to their commitments
• Evaluate performance of team members.
• Provide technical status updates (also in cross-team projects);
• Represent scrum team at cross-team meetings

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology
• 10+ years experience in an IT management role in a product-focused business
• Experience in having the ability to manage budgets and resource requirements effectively
• E-commerce industry experience and knowledge
• 5+ years experience in an Agile environment
• 5+ years experience with a headless Magento and Akeneo PIM implementation

Competencies and Skills:

• High attention to detail
• Have strategic, analytical and math skills
• Honesty and strong values
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation and communication skills to elicit cooperation from all enterprise levels.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts in an understandable, semi-technical way
• Ability to manage budgets and resource requirements effectively
• Mentoring employees that report to you
• Delegate, prioritize and manage a diverse workload which spans multiple concurrent products.
• Ability to motivate and influence cross-functional teams
• Ability to blend your technical understanding with business experience to drive product outcome
• Tech savvy and passionate about building products
• Effective time management skills to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced IT environment