Pretoria: Application Development Team Lead posted by IT Ridge Technologies

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of web developers while providing guidance on technical issues.
• Designing and developing front-end and back-end web architectures
• Maintenance and support of existing web and mobile applications
• 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 timely 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
  expectations 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
  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 integration and API management
• Monitor the ongoing performance of web applications
• 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.
• 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, and
  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.

Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science (Ideally an Honours
  Degree).
• Certifications in in Web technologies (HTML5, CSS 3, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap,
  JavaScript / AJAX, Responsive design) and Mobile technologies (IOS, Android), React Native.
• Certifications in Microsoft Web stack (MVC, C#, VB.net, razor, IIS, ASP.net, WCF/Web
  services, Web API, SOAP, REST, XML).
• Experience in Microsoft.Net Frameworks and Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL, and SQL server
  reporting services.
• Experience in Data Architecture and Database System Design.
• Experience in Agile Scrum and Waterfall SDLC methodologies.
• Experience in DevSecOps

Experience required for the position:

• 6 -10 years of relevant experience as a web and mobile development team leader
• Leading and working in an Agile Development environment
• Using technical skills to support and guide a technical team to establish priorities and
  successfully manage deliverables
• Experience in all phases of systems development and implementation (SDLC phases)
• Solid project management and analysis skills
• Team and customer service oriented
• Using leadership to influence other areas
• Write and maintain documentation, instruction, and procedure guides
• Work with customer(s) to correct errors and debug software and systems
• Strong knowledge/Experience of:
  o Natural
  o NATURALOne
  o Natural Engineer
  o Entire/X
  o Webmethods or Integration Server
  o Adabas
  o Online & batch processing
  o JIRA, GIT and Microsoft TFS are helpful