About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Centurion: Application Development Team Leader to lead our web and mobile development teams. As a seasoned professional with 6-10 years of experience in leading Agile Development environments, you will be responsible for guiding technical teams, establishing priorities, and successfully managing deliverables. Your strong customer-facing skills and ability to positively influence peers cross-organizationally will be essential in driving team collaboration and innovation.

Key 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.
• 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.
• Manage the planning process to derive delivery timelines.
• Effectively communicate a detailed understanding of business expectations by the team, to the team, including 3rd parties, as defined in specifications throughout SDLC.
• Adhere to prescribed quality standards during all phases of 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 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.
• Provide documentation of enhancements and modifications performed as part of software maintenance/enhancements.
• Build, manage, and maintain productive business relationships.
• Manage 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science (ideally an Honours Degree).
• Certifications 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.
• 6-10 years relevant experience as a web and mobile development team leader.

Qualifications

• Formal education/certifications not specified.

Salary & Benefits

• Salary information not provided.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Centurion: Application Development Team Leader to lead our web and mobile development teams in designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software solutions. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, excellent leadership skills, and the ability to drive team collaboration and innovation.

Key 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science (Ideally an Honours Degree).
• Certifications 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.
• 6 -10 years relevant experience as a web and mobile development team leader.

Qualifications

• Formal education/certifications.