Head: Application Development

Head: Application Development | Centurion, Gauteng | Permanent

Drive the strategic evolution of enterprise applications at a critical national institution. This is a role for a seasoned technology leader who can elevate systems capability, enable business performance, and shape the future of a complex, multi-platform application environment.

As the Head of Application Development, you will lead the delivery, enhancement and optimisation of business-critical software systems, including SAP and bespoke applications. You will own the full application development lifecycle, set the strategic direction for application capability, and guide a team of onshore and offshore engineering specialists. Your work will directly support the organisation’s ability to continuously improve, remain operationally resilient, and deliver modern, data-driven services across the business.

Our client is a respected national financial institution within the agricultural sector, playing a long-standing role in enabling sustainable growth and supporting emerging and commercial farmers across South Africa. The organisation is modernising rapidly, with a strong focus on systems optimisation, process improvement and data-driven decision making.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and execute the application development and delivery strategy.

• Oversee planning across people, process and technology for all enterprise applications.

• Advance software quality by strengthening development practices, skills and tooling.

• Collaborate with Infrastructure and Architecture teams to ensure appropriate hosting and system readiness.

• Lead testing and deployment services, including data migration, release management and compatibility assurance.

• Analyse business requirements to design testing strategies that reduce risk and minimise system defects.

• Manage and mature the organisation’s Business Intelligence environment, ensuring data availability for authorised users.

• Drive continuous improvement across business processes and ensure alignment with SAP and other core systems.
  

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