Job Classification
Senior Development Manager - 141298
Closing date: 22 August 2025
Job Family
Information Technology
Career Stream
It Application Development
Leadership Pipeline
Manage Managers
Job Purpose
To manage the deliverables and development of software and/or maintenance; taking end-to-end enterprise ownership to address client requirements in line with Nedbank Business and Information Technology strategy.
Job Responsibilities
- Ensure operational cost are within budget by actively monitor team budgets and operational spend
- Deliver service to client expectations by managing the achievement of quality and turnaround standards for processes, products, systems or services reducing deviation
- Ensure the delivery of quality project/ systems by actively monitoring project progress against schedules and budget and raising any deviation
- Ensure self and team improve on productivity and efficiency month on month
- Improve client services, processes, products through the application of professional knowledge and skills
- Realise commercial value add in client businesses through the application of professional knowledge and skill
- Ensure client / business needs are met by providing advice and consulting on professional solutions
- Ensure professional solutions that demonstrate a balance of best of breed and return on investment for the client are delivered to client within agreed parameters and timelines
- Build commercially viable relationships with clients though advise provided
- Enable collaborative delivery by establishing as productive working relationships with staff, managers, peers and client
- Maintain effective and productive relationships maintained with vendors
- Maximise return on investment by ensuring that correct are Vendors selected and managed
- Communicate solution build progress by working with key Group Technology or business stakeholders
- Ensure skill development and performance improvement of staff by agreeing staff and resource plans with management and operationalised
- Ensure team work though the review of team work tasks and corrective action implemented when required
- Ensure team processes, systems, protocols, methods, technologies, standards implemented, audited and corrective actions taken when required
- Meet all agreed risk and compliance requirements and mitigate non compliance to standards, policies and regulatory requirements
- Ensure the implementation of strategy by translating activities across business unit
- Ensure delivery on projects though monitoring and providing progress reports on projects
- Enabled and monitor compliance by presenting deviations at relevant forums though project governance
- Ensure delivery of team projects meet customer expectations by managing deviations timeously
- Translate business requirements accurately into project schedules and ensure alignment to requirements
- Ensure satisfactory post implementation review
- Mitigate Project risks by identifying possible risks and raising it at the appropriate forums
- Ensure work delivery by effective planning of a programme of projects and related activities
- Actively institutionalises the organisation’s systems development standards, methods and procedures
- Participates in monitoring and reporting on the progress of systems development.
- Takes action to deal with exceptions, problems and unforeseen events in a timely manner
- Ensure that new systems developments are executed in alignment with system design through the monitoring of procedures
- Ensure that systems development projects are carried out in accordance with the agreed standards, methods and procedures by monitoring s quality assurance systems, processes and measures
- Ensures that adequate capacity is available to support the agreed programme of systems development and that they are optimally utilised and accounted for
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
- Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree
Preferred Qualification
Post-Matric degree in Information Technology or Business Management
Certificate: Management Development , Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
Minimum Experience Level
3 to 4 years in managing teams with experience across functional teams 7 -10 years Information Technology-related experience
Technical / Professional Knowledge
- Budgeting
- Business administration and management
- Change management
- Client service management
- Diversity management
- Employee training/development
- Financial Accounting Principles
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Operations planning
- Principles of project management
- Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Service level agreements
- Staff resource planning
- Strategic planning
- Business writing skills
- Management information and reporting principles, tools and mechanisms
- System Development Life cycle(SDLC)
- ITIL
- IT Architecture
- General Communication Skills
- Joint application development
- Organisational structure
- IT Assets management processes
Behavioural Competencies
- Aligning Performance for Success
- Earning Trust
- Customer Focus
- Guiding Team Success
- Building Talent
- Driving for Results
- Planning and Organizing
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Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566