Design Practice Lead

SUMMARY:

JOB ANALYSIS REPORT: Design Practice Lead

One of the largest Retailers in Africa is looking for a dynamic and forward thinking individual to join the team. As an experienced Software Designer you will be responsible for ensuring that the Company has world class software design resources and practices. You must also  ensure the continued improvement of the design practice to keep pace with international design practices and technology evolution.

The Design Practice Lead is the main steward of the Company’s software design practices. This person is responsible for ensuring world class software design resources, practices and standards and that these practises and standards are properly executed when delivering software changes. The Design Practice Lead must ensure the continued improvement of the design practice to keep pace with international design standards and practices.

POSITION INFO:

JOB OBJECTIVES

• Define the software design standards, processes and tools to be
• Ensure adoption of defined software design standards, processes and tools with all stakeholders including other software engineering disciplines within the Group
• Drive the continuous improvement of Software Design standards, processes and tools with alignment to international best practices
• Ensure resources performing software design practices are appropriately skilled

1. Define the software design standards, processes and tools to be used.

• Define standards and guidelines with templates for software design artifacts in alignment with upstream and downstream disciplines. These must cover all aspects of software design (UI/UX, Application and database)
• Define the software design processes and activities necessary
• Identify and define the use of software design tools to facilitate the design

2. Ensure adoption of defined software design standards, processes and tools with all stakeholders including other software engineering disciplines within the Group

• Identify individuals and forums that will constantly communicate and drive the adoption of the defined and software design standards, process and tools to all stakeholders
• Identify individuals and forums that will conduct quality reviews to ensure adequate adoption of the defined and software design standards, process and tools
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure quality reviews are scheduled and executed in line with agreed processes and deliverables.
• Identify adoption issues and escalate to governance team where necessary
• Produce review reports where
• Provide oversight and guidance to artifact consumers to ensure high-quality solutions are created that conforms to the set standards.

3. Drive the continuous improvement of Software Design standards, processes and tools with alignment to international best practices

• Ensure the effectiveness of the various software design practices can be measured and that improvement areas can be identified and targeted for improvement.
• Ensure that international software design best practices are evaluated on a regular basis and adopted where appropriate for the Group
• Ensure that new/improved software design tools are evaluated on a regular basis and adopted where appropriate for The Group
• Identify individuals and forums that will constantly communicate the improved software design practices to all stakeholders and drive adoption of the changes.

4. Ensure resources performing software design practices are appropriately skilled

• Maintain an accurate list of all IT staff performing software design
• Identify skills gaps of IT staff performing software design
• Define training plans for filling any skills gaps
• Ensure execution of training plans to fill any skills
• Identify new training solutions to enable adoption of new software design practices
• Identify appropriate training providers and negotiate pricing for training
• Ensure recruitment of appropriately skilled staff software design
• Perform capacity planning to ensure we are able to meet demand for software design skills
• Create recruitment strategies that include identifying recruitment partners to ensure we are able to provide appropriately skilled software design resources when required.

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