Title
Technology Lead
Job Description
As the Technology Lead, you will play a pivotal role in guiding the technical direction of projects and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software solutions. The ideal candidate is a technical assertive professional with an eagerness to lead tech teams, driving technical excellence and innovation, and is looking to take the next step in being more strategically involved in defining and implementing our software engineering technology vision.
This role ensures alignment of technical resources through established engineering frameworks, standards, patterns, and drives innovation and continuous improvement across software development, platform development and cloud offerings. This role will work together with the Management Team and reports into the Head of Software Engineering.
If you have a breadth of knowledge across the technical landscape, strong technical skills and leadership abilities, we invite you to apply for this role. We offer a people focused and a collaborative work environment, driving opportunities for professional growth.
Responsibilities:
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Provide technical leadership and guidance to team members, fostering a collaborative and supportive team culture.
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Design software systems, considering scalability, performance and security needs.
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Maintaining or where required Establishing and defining the engineering frameworks and tools to be used by the teamse
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Defining and maintaining the engineering standards and patterns to be used by the teams
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Drive innovation and continuous improvement within the technology function
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Identify technical debt and areas for improvement, implementing solutions to enhance code quality and maintainability.
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Stay updated on emerging technologies, industry trends and software development methodologies.
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Manage technical architects and technical leads ensuring accountability and standards are maintained for all platforms and applications.
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Work together with Pre-Sales to develop sales opportunities and solutions for clients.
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Represent our software engineering capabilities in customer engagements.
Experience required:
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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field
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5+ years of experience as a technical lead or a similar role in software development
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Proven and demonstrated experience architecting and working with development teams and delivering applications and solutions to the market
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Experience as a Technical Lead on large-scale integration projects involving multiple interfaces, agencies/departments and stakeholders
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Ability to interpret and document technical designs, physical architectures and logical system architectures
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Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration and delivery
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Experience with cloud technologies and architectures (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
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Experience with agile project management, development methodologies and tools.
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Ability to delegate efficiently
Beneficial Experience:
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Experience in leading multiple development teams delivering applications and solutions to the market
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Experience in leading distributed or remote development teams
Education
Bachelor's Degree (Required)
Languages
English
Top Skills
What We Do
Altron is a proudly South African technology group. We harness the power of data, technology and human ingenuity to solve real-world problems, from the everyday to the epic. A technology industry leader since 1965, we’re partnering with customers across all industries to help them grow, build a thriving economy and transform today into a simpler, safer and smarter tomorrow. Altron operates in six countries, employs 4,700+ people and reported revenue of ZAR 7.9bn for the 12-month period ended 28 Feb 2023.
