Design Practice Lead - (PERMANENT) (N)

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POSITION INFO:

Purpose of the Job:

Working in a high performance software engineering environment that prides itself in attracting the finest talent, our IT teams are energetic, smart and motivated to create the best retail solutions satisfying our customers’ needs in an all-encompassing shopping experience. The Design Practice Lead is the main thought leader of the Company’s software engineering design practices with a solid track record of leading the successful adoption of software engineering design practices and expertise in software engineering, Cloud software design and Agile software delivery.

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Job Objectives

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

• Define standards and guidelines with templates for software design artefacts 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 activities.

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2. Ensure adoption of defined software design standards, processes and tools with all stakeholders

including other software engineering disciplines within the company:

• 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 required.
• Provide oversight and guidance to artefact consumers to ensure high-quality solutions are created that conforms to the set standards.

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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 Company.
• Ensure that new/improved software design tools are evaluated on a regular basis and adopted where appropriate for the Company.
• Identify individuals and forums that will constantly communicate the improved software design practices to all stakeholders and drive adoption of the changes.

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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 identified.
• Ensure execution of training plans to fill any skills gaps.
• 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 functions.
• 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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Qualifications:

• Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related; a combination of relevant education and experience will be considered

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Experience:

• 10 + years working experience within the IT industry
• 4+ years strong experience with Software Design modeling practices (UML, Activity diagrams, etc.)
• 4+ years Strong Experience with Software Design across all sub-disciplines (UX, Application and Database)
• 3+ years Strong Experience with software development
• 3+ years’ Experience with evolving and implementing software design practices and tools
• 3+ years’ Experience in Identification and formulation of Standards, Artefacts, and Processes
• 2+ years Demonstrated expertise in designing solutions to embrace micro services
• 2 + years Demonstrated expertise in designing solutions to embrace the use of containers and container management systems (Docker and Kubernetes)

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Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and logical skills with attention to detail
• Excellent team-working, interpersonal skills
• Delivery of compelling presentations to all levels of stakeholders and excellent communication and relationship-building skills
• Develop proposals and excellent written communication & presentation skills
• Excellent organization and facilitation skills
• Strong conflict management skills
• Software Design tools/suites
• Software Design methodologies and practices

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Kindly regard your application as unsuccessful if you have not heard from the agency within 2 weeks.

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