The purpose of this role is to coordinate and manage the day to day responsibilities of the Development team. To translate complex requirements into maintainable code that can be adapted to the changing needs of the business.
Duties and Key Areas of Responsibility
This role will also have the responsibility to guide, mentor and train the team members to ensure operational excellence and effectiveness, as well as maintain strong relationships with service providers, suppliers and customers within the Company
Main Duties
? Keep abreast of changes in the standards, technologies or methodologies
? Give direction and guidance as well as coach and mentor team members
? Review assignments for accuracy and quality
? Delegate responsibilities
? Coordinate application of software releases
? Develop and execute company policies
? Liaison between other departments and IT
? Contribute to architectural discussions with architects and lead developers.
? Actively contribute lines of code (leading by example), as well as code reviews
? Communicate effectively with 3rd parties and when dealing with technical support queries
? Draft training material and manuals for new systems/updates
? Identifying areas for modification in existing programs and subsequently developing these
modifications
? Writing and implementing efficient codes and determining operational practicality
? Developing quality assurance procedures
? Deploying software tools, processes and metrics
? Maintaining and upgrading existing systems
? Training users
? Working closely with other developers, UX designers, business and systems analysts
? Ad hoc duties as required from time to time
Academic and Trade Qualifications
? Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent
? Management diploma or courses will be advantageous
Work Experience & Skills
? Minimum 5-7 years’ in native mobile development, with a keen interest in react style frameworks such as Flutter.
? 2-4 year experience leading a team of IT professionals
? Experience in a virtual team-leading across geographies
? Interest in new technologies and how to augment the existing platform to achieve scale and remain relevant
? Exposure to cloud platforms and a keen interest in leveraging cloud-specific technology to gain efficiencies and availability
? Insight in applying design patterns to complex problems
? Experience in architecting, developing, testing, deploying systems
? Solid understanding of integration and web services.
? Solid experience in caching, revision control, message queues,issue tracking, monitoring, database transactions, testing
? Demonstrated effectiveness in all the areas outlined in the roles and responsibilities
Desired Skills:
- Minimum 5-7 years’ in native mobile development
- with a keen interest in react style frameworks such as Flutter.
- 2-4 year experience leading a team of IT professionals
- Experience in a virtual team-leading across geographies
- Interest in new technologies and how to augment the existing platform to achieve scale and remain relevant
- Exposure to cloud platforms and a keen interest in leveraging cloud-specific technology to gain efficiencies and availability
- Insight in applying design patterns to complex problems
- Experience in architecting
- developing
- testing
- deploying systems
- Solid understanding of integration and web services.
- Solid experience in caching
- revision control
- message queues
- issue tracking
- monitoring
- database transactions
- Demonstrated effectiveness in all the areas outlined in the roles and responsibilities
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
- Information Technology
- or equivalent
- Management diploma or courses will be advantageous