Lead, Software Engineering

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.

To shape, plan, lead Portfolio delivery providing expert Enterprise Engineering skill and knowledge, formulating and directing system capabilities roadmap, priorities, resources ensuring solutions are developed, maintained to standards and best practices. To synthesize, mature Engineering Practices (Software -; Quality -; Change & Release; DEVOPS) across Portfolio delivery teams (2 teams - 5 to 12 team members).   To work closely with RTE and Scrum Master providing relevant Enterprise Engineering knowledge, standards, best practices and governance to the table. 

• Post Graduate Degree in Information Technology or related
• 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 with minimum of 3 years experience as a senior manager running a portfolio of 10+ technical experts
• 10+ Years’ experience in full lifecycle design and development covering solution design, application design, development, testing and maintenance, network software, operating systems, multi-tier environments, desktop and workgroup software, middleware, server technology, fault tolerant environments, development tools.
• 10+ Years’ experience dealing with a broad spectrum of stakeholders including senior executives and working with cross-functional teams fostering collaboration and teamwork
• Knowledge of or exposure to GenAI, Microsoft Azure and Salesforce Marketing Cloud will be advantageous.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Articulating Information
• Challenging Ideas
• Developing Expertise
• Developing Strategies
• Empowering Individuals
• Making Decisions
• Team Working

Technical Competencies:

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