Overview

Senior Development Manager Jobs in Johannesburg at Nedbank

Job Classification
Senior Development Manager(146281)
Closing date: 26 June 2026
Job Family
Information Technology
Career Stream
It Application Development
Leadership Pipeline
Manage Managers

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
  • Manage project execution and IT technical delivery of Domestic/RealTime Payments projects, providing day-to-day project leadership
  • 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
  • Manage, facilitate, and create enterprise level visibility of the overall progress, dependency, issues, and risks across the various projects
  • Participating in Quality Reviews of Conceptual Designs, Detail Designs, Detail Test Plans
  • Collaborating with project leadership teams and change control committee(s) to monitor dependencies and schedule impacts as they relate to project deployments
  • Supporting IT leadership with issue, risk and defect resolution/escalations as appropriate
  • Participation – Facilitation/leading of detailed requirement sessions
  • Define and sequence activities wrt planning for execution
  • Work with subject matter experts to estimate activity resources and durations
  • Manage project skills and staffing plan and identify resource gaps and contention issues
  • Participate and provide relevant information to audit
  • Manage Technical Lead’s, Technical Specialist and Developers
  • Manage daily operations of Domestic Payments:
  • Manage standby roster
  • Chair daily standby sessions
  • Ensure hardening and incident fixes are planned, executed, and deployed
  • 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
  • Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
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
  • Budgeting
  • Business administration and management
  • Change management
  • Client service management
  • Diversity management
  • Employee training/development
  • Financial Accounting Principles
  • Governance, Risk and Controls
  • Operations planning
  • Principles of project management
  • Relevant regulatory knowledge
  • Service level agreements
  • Staff resource planning
  • Strategic planning
  • Business writing skills
  • Management information and reporting principles, tools and mechanisms
  • System Development Life cycle(SDLC)
  • ITIL
  • IT Architecture
  • General Communication Skills
  • Joint application development
  • Organisational structure
  • IT Assets management processes
Behavioural Competencies
  • Aligning Performance for Success
  • Earning Trust
  • Customer Focus
  • Guiding Team Success
  • Building Talent
  • Driving for Results
  • Planning and Organizing
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Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566

Title: Senior Development Manager

Company: Nedbank

Location: Johannesburg

 

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