Engineering Lead II

Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact

REQ: 136969

Talent Acquisition Contact: Lerato Sithole

Cluster: Nedbank GT

Location: 135 Rivonia Road, Nedbank Head Office, Sandton

Closing Date: 09 December 2024

Job Family

Information Technology

Career Stream

Application Development

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Professional

Job Purpose

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

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

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field

Preferred Certifications

• Togaf Certification, ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) or equivalent
• SAP Certification
   

Minimum Experience Level

• Min 8 Years' experience in similar roles.

Type of Exposure:

Experience:

• Involved in and/or led Multi stack technology Implementations and SAP implementations.
• Deep experience in Solutions Architecture and Complex Technology designs and ability to showcase

Technology:

• Multi stack technology environment, SAP SaaS Cloud (Fieldglass, Ariba, SuccessFactors) 
• SAP PaaS – Business Technology Platform 
• Integration between SAP and non-SAP technologies 
• General understanding of solution architecture principles and patterns

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies

Disclaimer

Preference will be given to candidates from the underrepresented groups

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566