Engineering Lead, Software Engineering

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

To shape, plan, lead Portfolio delivery providing expert Engineering skill, directing system capabilities, priorities, resources ensuring solutions are developed,maintained to standards, practices. To synthesize, mature Engineering Practices (Software -; Quality -; Change & Release; DEVOPS) across Portfolio delivery teams (5-12 teams).Lead, manage resources: software -, quality engineers, technical system team (50-80 resources), building capacity, capability, competencies in Engineering team.

Qualifications

Type of Qualification: Bachelor’s Degree

Field of Study: Information Technology/ Engineering

Experience Required
Software Engineering
Technology
8-10 years
Proven ability to work effectively as both a team leader and as a member of a small team of technical staff working in an agile development environment. Track record in capability and competency building and coaching of staff is required. 

• Individual is expected to lead the Renovite Platform  development team.
• Consistency and standardization: The individual is intended to define and maintain the frameworks, libraries, and tools that the feature teams will use. This also includes enforcing coding standards, architectural patterns (in consultation with the Architecture team), and best practices across the teams, leading to high-quality and maintainable code.
• Efficiency and Productivity: The individual is expected to lead the platform team intended to develop and maintain shared services that multiple feature teams can use, allowing feature teams to focus on configuring their core functions using standard components. Lead building CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and other DevOps practices are enabled and embedded to ensure scalability and reliability. Researching and developing new technologies and innovations into the platform, allowing feature teams to quickly adopt.
• Innovation and Agility: The individual is expected to focus on ensuring the platform is relevant, modern, secure and compliant with industry standards.
• Support and Maintenance: The individual is intended to ensure SRE practices are in place on the platform to ensure stability and service availability. Guide the team to ensure that the platform consumption tenant requirements are managed for consumers throughout the Group.

• Extensive hands-on experience in developing JAVA applications for a minimum of 7 years 
• Experiences in change deployment in a mid-to-large application 
• Experience in automated CI/CD builds  
• AWS Certified Developer Associate and/or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
• Technical exposure and hands on experience in managing an application platform  
• Managing a small to medium sized Development team with direct reports  
• Solution orientation – ability to make the Renovite Platform capable for the planned future feature implementations    
• Knowledge and hands on experience in Docker and Kubernetes   
• Familiarization to Angular development and implementations - Adventageous  
• Having an understanding of cost optimization in an application hosted in AWS (FinOps)  - Adventageous

Having an understanding of Renovite solution for ATMs -  Advantageous  

Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies:

• Articulating Information
• Challenging Ideas
• Developing Expertise
• Developing Strategies
• Embracing Change

Technical Competencies:

• Agile Engineering
• API Engineering
• Automation
• Cloud Computing
• Continuous Delivery (CD)
• Continuous Deployment
• Continuous Integration (CI)