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

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

  
  


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  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

  
  


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

  
  


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

  
  


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

  
  


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

  
  


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  Participation - Facilitation/leading of detailed requirement sessions

  
  


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  Define and sequence activities wrt planning for execution

  
  


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  Work with subject matter experts to estimate activity resources and durations

  
  


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

  
  


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  Participate and provide relevant information to audit

  
  


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  Manage Technical Lead’s, Technical Specialist and Developers

  
  


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  Manage daily operations of Domestic Payments:

  
  


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  Manage standby roster

  
  


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  Chair daily standby sessions

  
  


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

  
  


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  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