McKinsey & Company Technical Lead - Africa Jobs in South Africa
McKinsey & Company Technical Lead - Africa Jobs in South Africa
McKinsey Digital brings together the best of McKinsey’s digital capabilities to help our clients use digital technology to transform their businesses. As part of this group, you’ll join a global team working on everything from IT modernization and strategy to agile, cloud, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. You’ll typically work on projects across all industries and functions and will be fully integrated with the rest of our global firm.
Who You'll Work With
You will join McKinsey Digital as a Technical Lead based in our Casablanca, Johannesburg or Nairobi Office
McKinsey Digital brings together the best of McKinsey’s digital capabilities to help our clients use digital technology to transform their businesses. As part of this group, you’ll join a global team working on everything from IT modernization and strategy to agile, cloud, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. You’ll typically work on projects across all industries and functions and will be fully integrated with the rest of our global firm.
You’ll also work with colleagues from across the firm to help our clients deliver breakthrough products, experiences, and businesses, both on technology and non-technology topics.
Our office culture is casual, fun, and social, with an emphasis on education and innovation. We have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment and are expected to be constantly learning and growing. There is also a strong emphasis on mentoring others in the group, enabling them to grow and learn.
What You'll Do
You will work collaboratively in small teams and iteratively through design and development to deliver fully functioning web-based and mobile applications.
In this role, you will employ agile methodologies to quickly provide our clients with the solutions they need. You will help combine the latest open source technologies together with traditional Enterprise software products.
As a Technical Lead, you will be a core member of the team with responsibilities that range from driving the architecture design and technology decisions for shaping the next generation products for various internal teams to ensuring that we stay on the leading edge of
technology.
You will also be responsible for leading multiple development teams while delivering best-in-class enterprise-grade software solutions across a breadth of different platforms and technologies.
You are a flexible and adaptive tech lead, who effectively communicates across a broad range of stakeholder groups from engineers to business users, as well as effectively leads a project workstream.
Qualifications
Post Grad or master’s degree; or equivalent work experience
5-8 years of experience in software development, including leading a team and a project workstream
Strong application development knowledge of any of the following technologies: JavaScript, React, Android (Kotlin/Java), Swift, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Java, .Net core, HTML, CSS
Engineering practice experience such as code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, continuous integration, building highly scalable applications, application security, secure coding practice
Demonstrated track record of successfully understanding the business requirements and designing realistic and effective solutions
Knowledge of Agile software development process
Knowledge of agile testing approaches such as unit, integration and end-to-end testing
Familiarity with testing frameworks such as RSpec, JUnit or Selenium
Good working knowledge of at least one cloud based hosting platform such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
Working knowledge of continuous integration and delivery/deployment tools like CircleCI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Services, Bamboo or TeamCity
Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and effectively with people at all levels in an organization.
Skills to communicate complex ideas effectively.
Willing to travel up to 80%.
Fluent in English. Additional languages is a plus.
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; McKinsey & Company Technical Lead - Africa Jobs in South Africa
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