APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT TEAM LEADER

• Modernisation of Natural applications
• Maintenance and support of existing NATURAL /ADABAS systems
• Participating in the design and development of new systems throughout the entire project lifecycle
• Assist the team in defining and working from requirements and specifications to modify/enhance existing production software
• Development of new production software
• Monitor progress against agreed-upon timelines, including collaboration with the Project Manager.
• Liaise with relevant internal departments or stakeholders that might impact the ability to deliver quality software in a timeous manner to remove any issues and keep on track with delivery commitments.
• Manage the planning process to derive delivery timelines.
• Effectively and comprehensively communicate a detailed understanding of the business’ expectation by the team, to the team, including 3rd parties, as defined in the specifications throughout the SDLC.
• Adherence by the team to prescribed quality (as defined by IT Standards & Governance) during all the phases of the SDLC (i.e., functional design, technical design, code reviews and integration testing, etc.).
• Designing, coding, testing, debugging and documenting application features and changes
• Participating in activities that ensure the successful use of these systems
• Design, develop, and implement development standards and architecture principles.
• Modify existing programs as part of software maintenance.
• Responsible for adoption and enhancements in software modernisation
• Set in place tools, routines, processes and metrics for monitoring uptime and performance against contracted SLA.
• Implementation of agreed security standards within the software solution.
• Overall responsibility to ensure regulatory requirements are addressed according to agreed compliance standards.
• Involved in assisting developers with Entire/X and Natural development
• Provide documentation of enhancements and modifications performed as part of software maintenance/enhancements.
• Build, manage and maintain productive and beneficial key business and third party relationships.
• Responsible for empowering development team members to work across traditional organisational boundaries.
• Manage the changing people challenges such as fluidity of resources, remote working, different development needs.
• Promote team collaboration and innovation, sharing of knowledge, tools, code and practices.
• Build and develop a flexible and change accepting culture within the Software Development environment.
• Create a collective of shared knowledge and expertise and common identity through teamwork and experience sharing.
• Lead, manage and drive accountability and ownership amongst team members for personal development, including goal plans

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science (Ideally an Honours Degree).
• Certifications in Natural development
• Certifications in NaturalOne development
• Proficiency in developing software using NATURAL/ADABAS development tools in a Linux environment
• 6 -10 years relevant experience as a software development team leader
• Leading and working in an Agile Development environment

IT Ridge Technologies