IT Development Manager

Job description

As an IT development manager, you will lead a team of developers in building new solutions, enhance existing systems, and ensure great architecture and coding standards.

Key Responsibilities:

Project scoping

• Work with the business systems to scope a project, respond to a request for proposal complete with deliverables, timeline and budget

Managing relationships

• Develop open relationships with business systems team, project stakeholders
• Participate in regular status updates and have good visibility on the development team activities
• Develop and manage vendor partnerships to build and maintain products.

Project execution and process

• Take ownership of the establishing agile process and to keep adoption on track.
• Create the list of backlog items and prioritize them based on the overall strategy and business objectives
• Assist the scrum master in facilitating, obtaining resources and clearing obstacles

• Establish a “Definition of Done” for the team and guide the team to maintain this standard
• Oversee Development stages
• Maintain and report on team performance measures to keep helping the team improve

Technology, architecture and development standards

• Act as architecture owner and is responsible for facilitating architecture decisions and is part of the group that is responsible for overall architectural direction.
• Technical lead in AngularJS, LAMP and MVC (Yii) frameworks
• Ensure that coding standards are followed
• Provide feedback to developers through a structured peer review process

Automated testing

• Coach team on automated testing
• Responsible for increasing the automated testing code coverage
• Coordinate with the business systems team on quality assurance

Release & code management & Deployment

• Own and improve automated deployment procedures by working closely with AWS lead engineer
• Prepare technical release notes

Team staffing and administrative functions

• Participate in preparing budgets

• Manage staff and related activities such as recruitment, supervision, performance evaluations.
• Develop progression plan for each staff member and provide individual coaching and support

Preferred qualifications

• A proven track record with at least four (4) years of experience in a similar role
• Experience using agile principles, tools and techniques
• Global mind-set and ability to think across cultures, functions and scenarios
• Self-starter, strong initiative & leadership
• Demonstrated success in managing projects and development teams
• Be highly organised and able to balance individual tasks with the needs of the team, stakeholders and the wider business
• Great written and oral communication skills.
• Prior experience in higher education industry
• Ability to drive large multi-functional projects
• Degree in Information technology (Information Systems…) or equivalent practical experience