IT Lead - 2 year+

IT Lead - 2 years +

Job Description: IT Applications Lead

Duties of this position include but are not limited to:

• Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery.

• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.

• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.

• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.

• Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain business applications.

• Manage the collection and documentation of user's requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans.

• Prepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation, and maintenance of software.

• Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards.

• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related tools being used within the organisations

• Package and support deployment of releases.

• Manage the automation of processes within the organisation utilising varying technologies.

• Develop, refine, test and rollout upgrades to applications.

• Analyse and resolve technical and application problems.

• Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties.

• Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget.

• Provide support to business users for all application related issues.

• Research and evaluate a variety of software products.

• Monitor all team members and provide necessary advice and guidance.

• Perform periodic risk assessments and initiate risk control strategies.

• Review completed tasks to ascertain compliance with standards.

• Organize regular seminars and trainings to teach team members new techniques and methods.

• Keep up with trends in the constantly evolving information technology industry.

• Perform regular IT audit to discover areas of weaknesses and fortify them.

• Provide solution to any complex IT related challenges in the organization.

• Work alongside other business owners to achieve corporate goals and visions.

• Supervise all contracts and vendors for all major projects to ensure that time and cost is being managed.

• Maintain all solutions in line with the global IT standards

• Provide support to day-to-day operations

• Understand and support the varying areas within the technology department to come up with solutions for business requirements.

• Provide training assistance for users, applications programming team and other staff.

• Monitor application for compliance to IT standards and policies.

• Provide on-call coverage support as directed by the supervisor.

• Collaborate with cross functional teams to maintain efficiency, consistency and achieve successful implementation of application.

• Manage development of applications and information systems.

• Participate in all phases of project development life cycle

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years’ experience as a Software Developer

• 3+ Prior experience in a technical leadership position

• College or University degree in Computer Science or a related discipline