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

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Lead, Software Engineering to join our team in Johannesburg, South Africa. As a key member of our engineering leadership, you will drive innovation, mentor team members, and oversee the development of cutting-edge software solutions.

• Lead and manage a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define technical strategies and roadmaps aligned with business objectives
• 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree preferred
• AWS Certified Developer Associate and/or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Experience 

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

Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies:

• Articulating Information
• Challenging Ideas
• Developing Expertise
• Developing Strategies
• Embracing Change
• Empowering Individuals
• Examining Information
• Exploring Possibilities
• Interpreting Data
• Making Decisions
• Showing Composure
• Team Working

Technical Competencies:

• Agile Engineering
• API Engineering
• Automation
• Cloud Computing
• Continuous Delivery (CD)
• Continuous Deployment
• Continuous Integration (CI)
• Core Systems
• Data Engineering
• Design Thinking
• Error Budgets
• Incident Response
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Knowledge Management
• Microservices
• Non-abstract Large System Design (NALSD)
• Observability (Application and Web Analytics)
• Platform Engineering
• Policy as Code
• Post-incidence Analysis
• Reliability and Resilience
• Security Engineering
• Service Level Management
• Software Engineering Methods
• Software Engineering Tools
• Software Foundations
• System Integration
• Test-driven Design (TDD)
• Threat Modelling