Vacancy for a Software Development Manager in Dubai

Skills Provision is searching for a Software Development Manager.

The employing company require a person who has significant experience managing roadmaps and lifecycles for retail development products.

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Salary & Benefits

• AED 300,000 p/a tax-free
• Benefits package offered

The Role

• Drive and shape the delivery of software development for sets of applications to agreed cost, quality and timescales, in support of approved projects.
• Ensure strong and productive working relationships with business teams and other functions in IT.
• Measure, report and improve performance (internal and external teams)
• Long term planning to ensure resources and capability to meet annual plans and roadmaps
• Identify and mitigate risks to delivery. Provide a point of escalation and issue resolution. Identify and rectify any underlying issues or escalate as required.
• Recruit, lead, manage, coach and develop staff, and ensure consistent and good quality management throughout the function.
• Manage and develop effective working relationships with third party software development service and package providers.
• Manage the selection and establishment of new suppliers.
• Develop and deliver roadmaps for all active products in scope. Consolidate, ensure consistency across all areas and gain agreement for roadmaps, generating project work as required.
• Drive out duplication wherever possible.
• Collaborate with architecture and help develop the IT strategy. Identify and propose technology opportunities to allow IT to better meet the business objectives.
• Manage the cost-centre budget for defined area, in collaboration with Head of Solutions Delivery. Manage the build and test elements of Project budgets.
• Sign-off overall design and build estimates provided to Project Managers. Review and sign off of systems models and designs.
• Ensure standards, tools, methods and processes are in place and adhered to for building applications.

Requirements

• Track record of delivering application solutions on time, within budget and to agreed quality standards
• Retail/supply chain understanding
• Experience of managing applications development functions
• Leadership and management of internal staff
• Management of third-party vendors and contracts
• Commercial awareness
• Resource management
• Solid technical background and understanding
• Project management and planning experience

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