Title:  Senior Development Manager

Job Classification

Senior Development Manager(146281)

Closing date: 26 June 2026

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

• Manage project execution and IT technical delivery of Domestic/RealTime Payments projects, providing day-to-day project leadership

• Manage multiple work streams of IT technical project delivery through close coordination/cooperation with Business Owners, IT Technical Leads, Technical Specialists, Business Integrator, EQA lead

• Manage, facilitate, and create enterprise level visibility of the overall progress, dependency, issues, and risks across the various projects

• Participating in Quality Reviews of Conceptual Designs, Detail Designs, Detail Test Plans

• Collaborating with project leadership teams and change control committee(s) to monitor dependencies and schedule impacts as they relate to project deployments

• Supporting IT leadership with issue, risk and defect resolution/escalations as appropriate

• Participation - Facilitation/leading of detailed requirement sessions

• Define and sequence activities wrt planning for execution

• Work with subject matter experts to estimate activity resources and durations

• Manage project skills and staffing plan and identify resource gaps and contention issues

• Participate and provide relevant information to audit

• Manage Technical Lead’s, Technical Specialist and Developers

• Manage daily operations of Domestic Payments:

• Manage standby roster

• Chair daily standby sessions

• Ensure hardening and incident fixes are planned, executed, and deployed

• After hour standby escalation manager

• Work closely with the Domestic Engineering Lead to ensure that all work is being done according to the architecture roadmap and security directives
• BankServ and PASA representative for Domestic Payments – engage with BankServ as and when required
• Manage all the Domestic Payments applications (Real Time Payments, Mag Tape, Account Verification, Corporate Payment System, Value Added Services, etc
• Manage DATA within all the applications and ensure ALFABET is updated with the necessary information (i.e., application owner, Disaster Recovery, Architecture, upgrades, etc)
• Manage the Disaster Recovery tests and ensure planning is done accordingly
• Manage vendors quality of code, delivery timelines, resources, etc
• Participate and provide Domestic Payments yearly budgets, recoveries, vendor resources, etc
• Create Purchase Orders, receipt invoices, manage budget as per purchase orders
• Manage vendor contracts and renewals
• Manage onboarding of contract and permanent staff (participate in interviews and participate in selection, source staff – head hunting when required)
• Manage performance reviews - conduct performance reviews for permanent and vendor resources
• Create monthly executive packs and TPO reports
• Support agile team transformation and encourage teams to adopt agile values and apply Scrum
• Remove impediments and distractions to optimize teams’ performance
• Promote Scrum / Agile principles in the Scrum teams and stakeholders and drive process improvements

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

Technologies used:

• Cloud technologies (AWS, AZURE)
• JAVA Framework (Spring, Spring Boot, Apache Camel, Apache Hadoop)
• ELP/KAFKA
• OPTIM
• DYNATRACE
• Connect Direct
• Volante
• RECS7

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies