Our client believes in the possibilities and opportunities that abound within Africa. They are well known as being Africa’s biggest lender by assets. The Platform manager will manage backlog of defects, gaps and design features ensuring availability, reliability, performance and security to appropriate levels, enabling high quality customer services across the organisation. Execute technical, digital, data platform strategies, solutions and roadmaps that encompass the current and future needs of the business, technology and platforms ensuring the integrity, consistency and resilience of platform features and functions across geographies.

Details of Role:
Develop and maintain up to date conceptual, logical and physical architectures of the platform.
Develop Platform roadmap of key features and activities required for the platform based on architecture findings.
Monitor the delivery of platform features against the defined release plan by participating in daily stand-ups and report on the status of delivery.
Monitor the performance of the features in the live product and take remediation action if the feature is not performing as expected.
Plan and manage the release of formal versions of a combination of features developed across the platform.
Monitor progress of technical release activities by removing impediments to delivery.
Develop Service Level Agreement contracts to ensure availability, reliability and performance.
Implement the service strategy for platform services with overall client segment and solutions.
Monitor budgets against expenditure across the organisation.
Provide strategic direction of the technical, digital, data platform capability, identifying required platform capabilities.
Lead and direct the teams and manage Feature Analysts in a full time line management capacity

Location & Type
Johannesburg (Hybrid)

Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor degree in Computer Science/ IT
7 years Salesforce development experience
Salesforce certification
Apex certification
Salesforce design and architecture experience
Automation Testing experience