Engineering Lead II

Job Classification

138555 - Engineering Lead

Closing date - 24 April 2025

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 challenges / problems and formulate solution based on organisations, Identify 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
• Responsible for producing and facilitating solution architecture governance documents (Concept Design, High-level Design)
• Define and communicate the technical and architectural vision
• Ensure that the system or solution is fit for purpose
• Play a critical role in aligning teams to a shared technical direction 
• Ensure a viable end-to-end technical solution which will deliver the required business value while ensuring the use and migration to target state technologies
• Responsible for leading the build of front end, API’s and integrating with core back-end capabilities.
• Coordinates work across the various technical teams to manage interdependencies and ensure aligned prioritisation
• Responsible for removing any technical blockers jeopardizing the progress of the journey
• Experience designing and building scalable digital experiences for mobile and web
• Experience in App Analytics and Instrumentation
• Must be able to work independently with less supervision. 
• Must have lead solution designs of large-scale programmes and integration across multiple technology platforms. 
• Must be able to deal with challenges & issues across programme level. 
• Must be able to support and lead technical stakeholders throughout the project life cycle. 
• Must be able to collaborate, lead in discussions with technical and business stakeholder to find appropriate solutions and opportunities for implementation

Required Technical Knowledge

• Mobile & Web Development Technologies
• Mobile Application Architecture Patterns
• Software Design Patterns
• Application Security Best Practices for Web and Mobile 
• Performance Optimization
• Automated E2E Testing Frameworks and Technologies (Appium, Detox, Playwright, Cypress, etc)
• Microservices & EDAs

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

BSc (Computer Science), BCom (Information Systems). Professional Qualification Level 6 (Look at new degree naming conventions)

Essential Certifications

Preferred Certifications

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

Minimum Experience Level

Min 8  Years experience in similar roles.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies