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Job Title: TECHNICAL MANAGER II: INTEGRATION, I.T. APPLICATION INTEGRATION, CAPE TOWN
Location: Cape Town

Job Summary:
Duties & Responsibilities:
Job description
• Build and maintain an appropriately motivated skilled team

o Build a sustainable team capability

o Develop and maintain effective relationships across business, suppliers and IT.

o Collaborates with several Vendors who supply technical resources to effectively manage the relationship, understand resource capacity and drive quality delivery

• Contribute to the on-going improvement of processes, technology and architecture.

o Ensure operational sustainability of technology and technology based solutions

o Technology management, maintenance, support and level 3 standby

o Technical systems management, maintenance, support and level 3 standby

o Technology implementations and upgrades in accordance with agreed technology management and architecture standards and methodologies

o Ensure technology lifecycle requirements including upgrades & decomissioning are included in the IT Capital Plan and Integration Strategy

o Works with the Technical Specialist, Delivery Manager and Operations Manager to ensure digitally relevant DevOps automation and process adherence.

o Utilise problem solving skills & techniques to drive the resolution of issues

o Accountable for delivery and maintenance of sustainable complex or multiple technical systems/components.

o Understand complex software licencing models and ensure deployments do not impact software licencing

o Use strong analytical and technical skills to provide input into the design of solutions and problem solving.

• Understand your Technical Architecture and Ensure the right infrastructure is in place for integration

o Understand Enterprise Architecture and collaborate with EA on solutions

o Accountable for the team’s adherence to the Woolworths testing & QA practices and processes

o Ensure systems conform to IT governance and information security requirements

o Responsible for addressing risks raised by audit (internal and external)

• Provide input into technology related Risk Management Strategies and risk mitigation

o Accountable for alignment to IT BCP and formulating individual application BCP

• Maintain a 3 year Technology Roadmap

o Contribute to Business Case formulation: resources, infrastructure, software

o Contribute to the assessment and selection of technologies, solutions and services

• Coach, mentor and share experience to improve competence and performance of team.

Minimum requirements:
• 3 year IT Qualification

• 5-7 years’ experience (may be specialist)

Additional Criteria:

• Technology management skills

• Software Management skills

• Project management skills

• Relevant business knowledge

• Relevant Integration Technology knowledge in any of the following technologies would be preferable:

o IBM MessageBroker\IBM Integration Bus (IIB)\IBM App Connect (ACE), ESQL, MRM, DFDL

o IBM MQ and MFT

o IBM Datapower

o Java

o AWS Cloud Services such as S3, VPC, Glue, etc.

o Observeability tools such as AWS CloudWatch, ELK(Elastic, Kibana), etc.

o DevOps tools such as Jenkins, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Git-based code repositories (i.e BitBicket, GitHub, etc.)

o Event Streaming tools such as Kafka, Confluent, etc.

• Ability to research technology-related concepts, trends and best practices, and apply findings

• Looks beyond symptoms to uncover root causes of problems to be solved

• Presents problem analysis and a recommended solution rather than just identifying and describing the problem itself

• Anticipates potential obstacles and their impact on the accomplishment of goals and timelines and propose/ take corrective action where required

• Monitors and tracks progress to ensure delivery of all planned commitments, and keeps the appropriate people informed

• Prepares written reports and briefs and communicates ideas clearly.

• Speaks fluently in team meetings when presenting information.

• Manages existing partnerships within established agreements or contracts; negotiates adjustments when mutually beneficial to do so.

• Discusses issues and exchanges information with partners to identify areas of mutual interest and benefit.

• Demonstrates resourcefulness in acquiring necessary knowledge, skills and competencies to adapt to change

Desired Experience & Qualification:
TECHNICAL, MANAGER, II, INTEGRATION, I, T, APPLICATION, INTEGRATION, CAPE, TOWN

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