Manager IT Software Development & Delivery

In brief

**Overview** This role is for a Manager of IT Software Development & Delivery within Toyota Connected Africa (TCA), located in Sandton. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, the successful candidate will be responsible for establishing and leading TCA's in-house mobile application development team. They will take ownership of the customer-facing mobile application from its current external development partner, with a mandate to deliver secure, high-quality digital solutions that shorten time-to-market for customers across South Africa and other African markets. **What you will do** * Establish and lead the in-house mobile development team. * Drive Agile delivery practices, including sprint planning, backlog management, estimation, code reviews, and release activities. * Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support efficient, reliable, and scalable application delivery. * Leverage AI-assisted development tools and practices to improve productivity, quality, and delivery outcomes. * Own the handover of the mobile application from the current external development partner. * Manage the API and release boundary with the partner that continues to develop the platform and web applications. * Manage engineering-capacity vendors: statements of work, performance and escalations. * Uphold architecture, code-quality, security and data-privacy standards within the team. * Manage App Store and Google Play submission, release and monitoring processes. * Turn business demand into a deliverable roadmap with the Business Analyst, QA Engineer, UI/UX Designer and business teams. * Monitor and report on project delivery, key milestones, risks, issues, and resource requirements to the CTO and executive leadership. * Mentor, coach, and develop team members through ongoing support, performance management, and skills development initiatives. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * NQF Level 6 minimum 360 credits on level 8 framework qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline. * Project management certification PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent and Agile / Scrum certification PSM, CSM, SAFe or equivalent. * Minimum 7 years' experience in software / IT, of which 5 years managing development projects or teams through the full lifecycle. * Minimum 3 years' experience managing outsourced development partners or vendors, including statements of work and performance. * Working knowledge of the iOS and Android platforms and of App Store and Google Play release processes. * Sound understanding of the software development lifecycle, CI/CD and quality assurance. * Experience of delivering consumer-facing applications and of reporting at executive level. * Accurate information gathering and analysis. * Awareness and commitment to our mission. * Awareness of situations and decisiveness. * Communication and sharing of mid to long term plans. * Creation of innovative vision. * Establishing framework and systems for organisational learning. * Feedback of evaluation results and long-term development of others. * Perseverance. * Strategic reallocation of resources and review of work methods. * Suitable assignment and objective performance review. * Self-starter, able to build process where none exists. * Planning and organising. * Data gathering, analysis and interpretation. * Stakeholder management and negotiation. * Occasional international travel is required. * May be required to work outside normal hours for releases and critical production incidents, and to co-ordinate across Asia-Pacific time zones. **Who should apply** The ideal candidate is a self-starter adept at establishing new processes and teams where none exist. They should possess strong planning, organising, data gathering, analysis, interpretation, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills. Candidates will benefit from hands-on software development experience, practical use of AI-assisted development tooling, and mobile application delivery experience (iOS/Android, Flutter) or server-side development experience. Experience in establishing a new team or engineering process from scratch is also an advantage. The successful applicant will demonstrate accurate information gathering, decisiveness, commitment to the company mission, effective communication of long-term plans, an innovative vision, and the ability to foster organisational learning and develop team members. Perseverance, strategic resource reallocation, and objective performance review are key traits. Willingness to undertake occasional international travel and flexibility to work outside normal hours for releases/incidents, coordinating across different time zones, is essential. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/manager-it-software-development-delivery-toyota Source: myjobmag

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• At least 3 years of experience.

• Project management
• Agile / Scrum

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