Standard Bank Group Engineering Lead, Digital Engineering Jobs in South Africa
Standard Bank Group Engineering Lead, Digital Engineering Jobs in South Africa
Job DetailsStandard Bank is a firm believer in technical innovation, to help us guarantee exceptional client service and leading edge financial solutions.
Our growing global success reflects our commitment to the latest solutions, the best people, and a uniquely flexible and vibrant working culture.
Job Purpose
Key member of the combined business and IT program team, synthesizing across all Engineering Practices (Software -; Quality -; Change & Release; DEVOPS), owning, leading, and driving the engineering practices across all delivery teams (5 to 12 teams) within the program.
The Engineering Lead plans and oversees delivery, ensuring that the appropriate number and required skills of resources are available for the demand across the program and solutions are correctly developed and maintained within Group IT standards and practices, acting as Technical Lead within the Program.
Oversee and maintain engineering quality and performance standards, directing the system capabilities and priorities.
Lead and manage the engineering resources: software engineers, quality engineers and technical system team members within the program (50 – 80 resources), building the required capacity, capability and competencies in the Engineering team.
Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities
Facilitate the successful delivery and management of business solutions and features, supporting the Chief Information Officer (CIO) with expert engineering skill as Technical Engineering lead on the Program Level
Mature the Software Engineering practices within Program by driving System Team capabilities (Change, Automation, Integration) and priorities on the program backlog
Works with key stakeholders (e.g., Product managers, CIOs) to ensure that work required to instantiate practice goals and objectives is properly prioritised and inserted into Portfolio/Program/Team backlogs
Has extreme focus on building capability that produces predictable, reliable and sustainable solutions. “Everything under version control” & “Automate all things”.
Drive a culture of relentless improvement
Provide, or make available, expert knowledge of prototype creation, module and solution design and development using agile methodologies, and continuous testing to enable target business capabilities / client/employee journeys
Work with the System Architect/ Engineer, Product Managers, and Product Owners to establish clear content authority, continuously assist in aligning teams to the system mission and vision i.e. system Future State Architecture strategies, roadmaps as well as System Service Ownership requirements e.g. system dependencies, required service levels etc.
Provide technical direction to the teams by leading and guiding their output in line with the delivery and business objectives in conjunction with the CIO
Drive continual engineering delivery improvement across all teams in the program
Contribute to and maintain the technical capability by implementing Software Engineering standards to maintain required stability, resilience and performance levels
Implement and mature the set of methods, practices, standards, guidelines and frameworks that are required to continually improve the quality of technical solutions that are delivered within the Program
Continually improve his/her own technical acumen and remain closely connected to changes in industry practices, in conjunction with the IT COE practices
Communicate the roadmaps for capability building & continuous improvement (e.g. Technical Debt refactoring, “Evergreen” technology stack, Platform roadmaps)
Ensure appropriate prioritisation of roadmap features, and inclusion in appropriate backlogs (Portfolio/Program/Team) by engaging and influencing Product Managers, the CIO communities: Release Train Engineers and Feature Teams
The voice for the technical backlog in the PI prioritisation i.e. % Supply for Feature backlog vs % Supply for Technical backlog
Responsible for constructing the Engineering Practice team within the Program
Lead, manage, and mentor the Software Engineers, Quality Engineers and System Team resources within Program, ensuring the development and maintenance of highly skilled and motivated resources
Responsible for recruiting, maintaining and growing appropriate engineering capacity and competencies to enable the target business outcomes within schedule and within budget on a Program level
Manage the finances and sourcing for
engineering on the Program level, working closely with the Program team (CIO, Architect) and IT COE Practices to define and plan future workforce growth and sourcing strategies, and budgeting accordingly
Maintain the competency of the Engineering team by coaching and growing the Practice Engineering Team members
Lead the setting of clear expectations for the achievement of quality goals and objectives in conjunction with RTE and CIO, providing explicit guidance about individual performance expectations
Oversee the provision of support in the form of training, mentoring, coaching, etc. for practice team members to allow them to attain mastery in their technical skills
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Collaborate and create opportunities for team members to acquire adjacent skills (“T-shaped employees”) and emergent skills as well as actively driving cross skilling as a strategic initiative in conjunction with other technology engineering practices
Ensure resource delivery quality assessments and drive the improvement of quality of resources (responsible for performance improvement/re-assigning/or managing out); acting as the escalation point for the management of improvement of performance and development of functional resources
Deals with technical escalations both for Change and Run the Bank
Set-up appropriate structure to allow for the continual measurement of performance of Engineering team members (using feedback from a wide variety of sources) and the provision of honest and objective feedback to team members on a regular basis
Preferred Qualification and Experience
Qualifications
Degree
IT and Computer Sciences.
Certifications in Agile Software development methodologies and associated practices such as Continuous Integration, Software Defined Infrastructure, Evolutionary Architecture, etc.
Experience
5 - 7 years' Business Partnering & Service Management. 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.
7 - 10 years' Solutions Engineering.
5 - 7 years' Practice Management and Leadership experience.
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.
Knowledge/Technical Skills/Expertise
The identification of new and alternative approaches to performing business activities.
The analysis of business processes, including recognition of the potential for automation of the processes, assessment of the costs and potential benefits of the new approaches considered and, where appropriate, management of change and assistance with implementation.
Knowledge and ability to analyse business requirements to be met by IT solutions.
Defining and managing the process of deploying and integrating IT capabilities into the business in a way that is sensitive to, and fully compatible with, business operations.
The coordination of relationships with and between key stakeholders, during the design, management and implementation of business change.
Ability to review and study relevant information from various sources to develop new information; Ability to identify primary and secondary authorities to validate the research.
Knowledge and understanding of IT diagnostic tools including the replication of errors in test environments.
Possesses a deep and broad knowledge base in fundamental IT technical skill sets. Stays informed on emerging trends.
Monitoring for the emergence of anticipated benefits (typically specified as part of the business case for a change program or project).
Action (typically by the program management team) to optimize the business impact of individual and combined benefits.
How to Apply
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