Software Developer Coach at Africa Digital Media Institute (ADMI)

We are looking for a Software Developer Coach who is passionate about driving high-priority customer initiatives with a critical mindset to guide, design and coach junior developers. This is a technical coaching and customer-facing role that is accountable for the end-to-end customer solution development and deployment experience.

The Coach would own the technical engagement with partners, including architectural design sessions, specific implementation projects and/or proofs of concepts.

The ideal candidate will have experience in customer-facing roles and success leading deep technical architecture and application design discussions with senior customer executives.

Scope of Work

• Activity and resource planning of deliverables based on client brief. Facilitate product owner input and team interactions; ensure the communication of scope and requirement changes throughout the team.
• Organizing and motivating apprentice project teams
• Controlling time management and deliver projects on time.
• Ensure the satisfaction of project owners.
• Analyzing and managing project risk.
• Monitoring the progress of projects and apprentices.
• Document every aspect of an application or system as a reference for future maintenance and upgrades.
• Compile timely, comprehensive and accurate documentation and or reports as requested
• Instill project management best practices including risk management, cross-team interdependencies, scope definition, delivery objectives, and quality standards.

Eligibility

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• 5+ years of architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications (i.e. having an architectural sense for ensuring availability, reliability, etc.).
• 2+ years of experience in “migrating” on-premise workloads to the cloud.
• 5+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects (where necessary, managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solutions/projects).
• Solid understanding of modern authentication protocols and a background in cybersecurity.
• Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends.
• Deep technical experience in enterprise mobile, identity and access control, & security solutions.
• Working knowledge with AGILE development, SCRUM and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with one or more of the following: programming languages: PowerShell,
• Bash, .NET, C++, Java, JSON, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Responsive Web Design.
• Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts & ensuring follow-through.
• Communication and Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences.
• Prior work experience in a consulting/architecture position within a software & services company.
• Problem-solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources.

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