Engineering Lead II (Solutions Architect)

Job Classification

Job Family

Information Technology

Career Stream

Application Development

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Professional

Job Purpose

To actively own and be accountable for the overall evolution of multiple Technology or Domain assets while influencing and maintaining the health of the asset. Play a leadership role on the associated COE’s

Job Responsibilities

• Analyse problems and formulate solution based on organisations boundaries, architectures and constraints: Needs to be achievable and operational, must push boundaries when required and continuously push for improvements.
• Take proposed solutions through relevant governance forums and obtain acceptance for solutions from relevant 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 identification 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 mindset.
• Apply a product management mindset (long term thinking).
• Mentor and coach software engineering practitioners.
• Keep abreast of the technical landscape on how it fits together.
• Understand constraints and risk and make the necessary trade-offs
• Influence and negotiate with key stakeholders. 
• Craft the end to end solution taking into consideration: people, technology, systems and data. 
• Future proof end to end solutions as far as possible within the organisation constraints. 
• Continuously build and enhance the technical assets that are touched by the solution to ensure long term sustainability. 
• Grow the engineering lead practice through contributing to the engineering lead chapter. 
• Drive organisational alignment across areas of accountability Provide coaching, mentoring and upskilling of others within area of expertise Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives 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 Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.). 
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy 
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking

Required Technical Knowledge

• Security patterns
• Architectural patterns (e.g. MVC, MVVM, etc.)
• Design patterns (e.g. Creational Patterns, Behavioural Patterns, Builder Patterns, etc.)
• Load Balancer integration (e.g. F5 and cloud-based services), ISAM, AZP
• API integration platforms (e.g. IBM DataPower, IBM API Connect)
• Microservices
• Web Services
• CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment)
• Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Java (preferably Java 17 or higher)
• Spring Boot Framework
• .Net Framework
• MSFT C#
• XML and JSON
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• ELK Stack
• IBM Liberty Profile 
• IBM WebSeal
• AWS and Azure Cloud
• MS SQL
• Power BI
• Dynatrace

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

BSC Computer Science or other IT Qualification

Minimum Experience Level

• Min 10 years IT Experience
• Security technologies
• Cloud Experience
• Software development and application Integration 
• Middleware concepts and can associate most of the concepts into designs and argue them in context
• Exposure to Microservices
• Experience in IBM- FileNet P8 platform
• CmoD – Content Management

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies