Santam Bursary – Development Manager

Job Description:

Santam has a unique opportunity for a Development Manager for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 environment.  This platform is being implemented across multiple companies within the Santam Group and 14 business units across more than 1200 users have been rolled on.

Job Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the planning of project execution to support concurrency balanced with business demand and prioritization.
• Work with Project Managers and Team Leaders for scheduling and allocation of development resources to projects and support teams
• Management of the Support and Maintenance Team leader.  The Development Manager takes accountability of the operational efficiency of this area with regards to Service Level Management of incidents and change requests, escalations, root cause analyses, and emergency and planned deployments
• Involved in management of the project deployments
• Accountable for daily health monitoring of the environment
• Collaborating through a healthy relationship with the Group Infrastructure teams, Business Demand managers, Scrum Masters, other IT Development Managers
• Ensure stable and performant production environment
• Manage performance and development of all direct reports
• Assist with the growth on performance, capacity and capability within the team through effective knowledge transfer
• Provide training, mentorship and leadership to direct and inspire a high-performance team
• Involved in annual budgeting cycles for development team resources, software licenses, TCO etc.

Job Requirements:

• Relevant B Degree or equivalent workplace experience
• 5 to 10 years at application development experience, certification in Microsoft products or specifically Dynamics 365 is advantageous
• Experience managing technical staff
• Experienced in dealing with external suppliers

Job Details:

Company: Santam Insurance

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Bellville, Western Cape , South Africa

Application Deadline: N/A

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