Job Description

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.

• 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.