Senior Development Manager

Job Classification

Senior Development Manager - 141298

Closing date: 22 August 2025

Job Family

Career Stream

Leadership Pipeline

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

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

Behavioural Competencies