JOB PURPOSE:Provide technical direction and assist with the coordination of the delivery of solutions development, applications support, and database administration teams as per agreed or established practices and guidelines.KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS
Team coordination - coordinates tasks and work activities of the developers, database administration and application support teams including cross-functional teams.
Technical leadership - provides technical direction, guidance and recommendation on technology selection and design decisions on databases and applications, as well ensuring alignment with the best practices and appropriate design patterns.
Team collaboration - foster effective communication and collaboration within the development team and cross-functional teams, such as project managers, QA, etc. and promote knowledge sharing.
Project planning and estimation - develop project plans, breakdown tasks, estimate timelines and align the team's work with the project goals and deadlines.
Troubleshooting - lead and assisting the team with troubleshooting complex technical issues, providing solutions and encourage the culture of proactive problem solving.
Task management - assign technical tasks team members in development, database administration, application support and projects including reviewing the work of the team.
Codebase Maintenance - overseeing version control, codebase organisation, code review and enforcing standards.
Technical presentation - prepare and deliver technical presentations or training sessions for the team and other divisions.
Technical documentation - create and maintain comprehensive documentation of support procedures, code, designs and deployment details.
Security and compliance - develop and implement security controls based on the best practices and ensuring adherence to relevant regulations and standards.
Technology and solution evaluation - create proof of concepts to validate the feasibility of new technologies, approaches or solution before full-scale implementation
Performance Reporting - report on application development, database and application support performance.
Release Management - implement and maintain continuous integration/ continuous deployment pipelines to automate and enhance the development process and product quality to ensure smooth and reliable releases.
Mentoring and coaching - provides coaching, mentorship and guidance to junior resources, helping to develop their technical skills and development.
Data Governance - ensure compliance with ICT processes and standards.
Stakeholder management - provide updates on projects and operations tasks status and technical decisions as well as communicate progress and challenges to stakeholders.
EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
A relevant university ICT degree or a related NQF 7 ICT equivalent qualification
MCSD.Net or MCAD or Azure Developer Associate certification compulsory
Minimum six (6) year experience in designing software applications including integration solutions.
Minimum six (6) year experience in developing software applications including integration solutions.
Minimum six (6) year experience in software development project management using agile frameworks.
Minimum six (6) year experience using Microsoft development tools, such as Visual Studio .NET toolset, Power platform, MSSQL, etc.
Minimum six (6) year experience in developing medium-to-large scale web applications solutions.
