Engineering Lead

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 and lead portfolio delivery by providing expert engineering leadership, directing system capabilities, priorities and resources to ensure solutions are developed and maintained in line with agreed standards and practices. The role has a primary focus on managing third-party software suppliers responsible for delivering, supporting and evolving key platforms, with accountability for vendor performance, service quality, governance, commercial oversight and roadmap alignment. In parallel, the incumbent leads the internal support teams aligned to these platforms, building the capacity, capability and competencies required to govern suppliers effectively and sustain reliable service delivery across the engineering function.

Technology Capabilities

The incumbent should have a sound understanding of modern software development, platform engineering and delivery practices, with the ability to lead, challenge and guide teams and third-party suppliers across the technology landscape. While deep hands-on expertise in each technology is not required, the role requires sufficient technical breadth and credibility to oversee solution delivery, support decision-making, and manage teams working across the capabilities below.

Qualifications

• ost Graduate Degree in Information Technology

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. Minimum 3-5 years' experience as a senior manager running a portfolio of 10+ technical experts.

• More than 10 years - Come from a background of 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. Broad experience of application development methodologies, data base methodology, programming languages, data base concepts and IT infrastructure and operations.

• More than 10 years - Proven track record to a broad spectrum of stakeholders including senior executives. Knowledge of Agile and Lean frameworks, methods and practices and experience in being a catalyst for organisational change. Experience working with cross-functional teams fostering collaboration and team work. Exposure to broad business and financial management type experience, specifically within the banking sector. Good understanding of the Standard Bank IT environment

Cloud Platforms: Azure, AWS
Programming: C#, .NET Core, Angular, TypeScript
DevOps & Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitLab, CloudFormation
Databases: Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, NoSQL, Oracle, DynamoDB, MS SQL
Security & Monitoring: IAM, Secrets Manager, Application Gateway, CloudWatch, Splunk, API Management
AI/ML Tools: Azure ML Studio, AWS SageMaker, Bedrock
IDEs: VS Code, Visual Studio, IntelliJ
Reporting Tools: SSRS, Power BI

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