What Am I Worth? - IT development manager
The Job: Development manager, senior level, at a dedicated registry development company.
The Job: Development manager, senior level, at a dedicated registry development company.
The Job: Development manager, senior level, at a dedicated registry development company. Essentially running a ‘cost centre’ within the company, delivering IT reliable products to clients.
Responsible for areas in human resources, managing and developing products produced by the company, making sure products are essentially making money rather than losing it.
The Profile: Began their career as a programmer, completed a BSc in computer science, has spent around eight years in various programming jobs, the last 19 years various management roles including project managing. No formal education in terms of management training.
The Salary: Within a range of $130,000 - $160,000 dependent on the size of the organisation. Recruitment and IT specialist Stuart Maxwell, director of Alexander James, explained they would have to demonstrate a significant level of experience as a development manager in the past.
The Upgrade: In order to move up in the ranks, the ability to network and promote yourself within the industry is an essential step towards self-promotion. “There’s a whole raft of parameters that come into promoting yourself into achieving a higher ranked role within the industry,” says Mr Maxwell, “Talking at relevant seminars, what you’re trying to do in order to get ahead of the curb in terms of innovation and what you’re doing in terms of delivering projects respectively within the right budgets all fall into the outcome of a possible promotion within the company or industry.”
Looking at a role within a professional services organisation, a need to bring on new business is key along with maintaining relationships with existing clients.
“An upgrade into a CTO rather than a CIO position would be more favourable, as a CTO role is more IT orientated and technologically focused rather than primarily having a commercial focus,” Mr Maxwell added. “In this day and age, CIO roles consist of more business leadership roles and not necessarily all about technology, which would be highly beneficial for somebody in a technologically oriented position.”