Engineering Lead II

Job Purpose

To envision, lead and develop fit for purpose, integrated end to end technical solutions across multiple technologies for the organisation, throug inspirational technical leadership and visionary long-term thinking. Provid Leadership across multiple initiatives guiding engineering lead practitioners to achieve product/ programme alignment

Job Responsibilities

• Analyse poblem and formulate solution based on organisations boundaries, architectures and constraints: Needs to be achievable and operational, must push boundaries when required and continously push for improvement
• Take proposed solutions through relevant governance forums and obtain acceptance for solutions from relevent specialists (domain or technology)
• Collaborate and communicate and obtain buy in from key stakeholders
• Decomposition of the solution and assisting with the scheduling/ sequencing work and identificatio of resourcing needs
• Flesh out designs and contribute to functional and non-functional requirements
• Assist software designers with lower level designs
• Troubleshoot issues relating to technical delivery
• Design with a holistic, robust and sustainable midset
• Apply a product management midset (long term thinking)
• Mentor and coach software Engineering Practitioners
• Keep abreast of the technical landscape on how it fits together
• Understand constaints and risk and make the necessary trade-offs
• Influence and negotiate with key stakeholderss
• Craft the end to end solution taking into consideraton: people, technology, systems and data
• Future proof end to end solutions as far as possible within the organisation constraints
• Continuously build and enhance te technincal assets that are touched by the solution to ensure long term sustainability
• Grow the engineering lead practice though contriibution to the engineering lead chapter
• Drive organisational alignment across areas of accountability
• Provided coachhing, mentoring and upskilling of other within area of expertise
• Support the achievements of the business strategy, objecives and values
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise
• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities
• Contribute to the Company Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc,)
• Participate and Support corporate responsibility initiaties for the achievement of business strategy
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, model and sytems though agile thinking

People Specification

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Diploma

Preferred Qualification

BSc (Computer Science), BCom (Information Systes). Professional Qualification Level 6

(Look at new degree naming conventions)

Preferred Certifications

Togaf Certification, ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) of Equivalent

Type of Exposure

• Mangement and integration of tooling related to DevOps Practices in a Cloud environment
• Accuracy of realisation of design
• Analysing and interpreting quantitative and qualitative data for accurate design and implementation
• Conceptual design and managing production of websites and portals
• Multiple operating systems. Application programmes; Operating Systems; IT infrasturcture and system analysis
• Working with relevant software development languages

Minimum Experience Level

• Min 8 Years experience in similar roles

Technical/ Professional Knowledge

• IT Architecture
• IT Concepts
• Systems Analysis and design