Exciting Opportunity for a Development Manager at Entelect Elevate your career at Entelect, where we prioritise people and nurture a culture of growth, collaboration, and innovation. Join a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment that encourages versatility, and provides individual attention to career development, including intentional and regular one-on-ones with leadership. Tackle complex challenges and make a meaningful impact alongside passionate professionals who inspire and support each other. What You'll Be Doing: Delivery : Status tracking of project tasks, milestones, deliverables, or key dates. Risk and expectation management resourcing, deliverables, requirements, and at times budgets. Taking high-level responsibility (planning and leading) for software project delivery management. These projects are not SAP v4 to v5 upgrades, they are custom builds with a fair bit of tact and problem solving required. They are also not 3 years; typically, projects will be 6-18 months. Working closely with 5 or more teams operationally. Performing business analysis/problem solving on the fly, and rapidly context switching. People : Forming and norming software delivery teams, including onboarding, offboarding, and team member rotation. Building team cohesion and managing team identity. Closely coaching software teams on practice, communication, and culture. Identifying opportunities for personal growth and provide one-on-ones, performance reviews, and personal career mapping. Customer: Managing customer accounts, building relationships, and handling commercials, financials, and administration, often as the main point of contact. Composing, delivering, and tracking customer status reports. Facilitating and managing customer feedback during demos, meetings, and calls. Seeking opportunities to strengthen customer partnerships. What You'll Get from Us: A competitive compensation package with twice-yearly salary increases and guaranteed bonuses. Tenure-based loyalty leave. Access to employee wellness programs and rewards for professional development. Commission incentives for successful business development leads and employee referrals. Hands-on support from leadership through regular one on ones and quarterly reviews. Continuous development programs offering training in leadership and technical skills. Exposure to enterprise projects across multiple domains and problem spaces for South Africas most esteemed organisations. What To Expect from the Recruitment Process: Our aim is to make the recruitment process as efficient as possible, keeping you informed every step of the way. The first step is an initial conversation with our talent team to get to know you better and introduce you to Entelect and what we have to offer. The next step will be an in-person coffee chat with someone from our leadership team to discuss the role expectations in detail. Following the coffee chat, we will invite you back for an in-person case study presentation where we will give you the opportunity to showcase your leadership skills. Finally, if we are both aligned, we wrap up the process with salary discussions and present you with an offer of employment. Not quite ready but eager to learn more? Head to the Culture Site and complete the form to set up an exploratory chat. Our team understands that good things take time and are happy to wait until that time is right for you. What We Need from You: A BSc, BIS, BCom, or BEng degree in Computer, Software, Information, or electronic related Sciences. Minimum 8 years' experience in the IT industry as an Analyst/PM/Software developer with experience in consulting. Minimum 5 years' experience leading and managing teams in all aspects of coaching, performance management and driving team culture. Strong collaboration and communication skills with a drive for continual improvement. A hunger to continually improve those around you through mentorship, guidance and awareness of what drives those on your team. Pro hybrid working model working from the office on average 2 3 times per week. A strong customer-facing ability. Flexibility to work across a variety of different environments and tooling.
