Standard Bank Tech Lead - PBB IT Jobs in South Africa

Job Purpose

There are two primary facets to the job of Technical Lead.

The first, building the practice, is about acquiring (hiring), training and developing top class software engineers and technical experts. The second, capability building, is about defining, implementing and evolving the set of methods, practices, guidelines and frameworks that are required to continually improve the quality of technical solutions that are delivered

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities

Responsible for constructing the Engineering teams

• Ensures a common sense of purpose by establishing the vision, intent and desired outcomes of the practice.

• Hires skilled software engineers and top class technical experts (architects, software engineers, operations engineers, etc.).

• Ensures an appropriate supply of technical experts to fill available positions in the delivery portfolios (SAFe Portfolio, Program and Team levels).

• Builds relationships with the team, partners and the broader industry.

Management of the teams specifically through Performance management and career development

• Continually improves his/her own technical acumen and remains closely connected to changes in industry practices.

• Provides support in the form of training, mentoring, coaching, etc. for practice team members to allow them to attain mastery in their craft.

• Provides opportunities for team members to acquire adjacent skills (“T-shaped employees”) and actively drives cross skilling as a strategic initiative.

• Sets measurable goals and objectives and provides explicit guidance w.r.t. performance expectations.

• Measures performance continually (using feedback from a wide variety of sources) and provides honest and objective feedback to team members on a regular basis.

• Sets clear expectations for the achievement of quality goals.

• Encourages autonomy of decision making within clearly defined boundaries.

• Ensures that team members are rewarded fairly within the context of experience, performance and personal contribution.

Build and improve capability to ensure effectiveness of the software engineering practice against industry

• Through collaboration with team members, industry, community, subject matter experts, research houses, etc. establishes and continually improves the standards, methods, frameworks, etc. for the “way things are done” i.e., the way solutions are architected, designed, built and operated.

• Ensures that Security forms an integral part of all practice capabilities.

• Works with key stakeholders (e.g., Product managers) 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”.

• Drives a culture of relentless improvement.

• Regularly assesses the effectiveness of the practice against industry leaders.

• Does presentations at industry functions and actively contributes to the industry body of knowledge.

• Encourages the use of rituals and habits that help shape the effectiveness of the practice.

• Creates Guilds (“communities of practice”) to encourage in-and-across-practice collaboration, information sharing, etc.

Scope, Plan, Design and Review end to end solutions

• Render advice, maintain and implement the organisations system development standards, methods and procedures.

• Assist in the assessment and selection of suitable software packages and technologies to meet all or parts of specified requirements.

• Engage with Information Technology support teams and business stakeholders to scope plan and design end to end solutions.

• Formulate strategic plans which will have long term cost savings.

• Advise development staff on the evaluation and impact analysis of major design options.

Co-ordinate and participate in the delivery of application code

• Produce outline system specifications using solution designs, functional specifications or technical specifications as input,

including input into scope, constraints (such as performance or resources), hardware, network and software environments.

• Lead a team of developers in own or outside of own team to deliver on agreed solution.

• Produce specifications for systems functions, information flows, data loads, implementation strategy, phasing of development, requirements not met and alternatives considered.

• Produce component designs taking into account the solution design, performance requirements and existing systems.

• Review input into risk analysis and development plans in order to consider the impact of design decisions.

• Design and review user and system interfaces including menus, screen dialogues, inputs, reports, validation and error correction, processing rules, access, security, audit controls, recovery routines and contingency procedures.

• Work with data analysis colleagues to review, approve, produce or update system or object data models and correlate these with corporate models, when required.

• Review, approve and update or work with database design or database administration teams to translate object and data models into appropriate database schemas within design constraints.

• Assist less experienced colleagues with complex coding problems, where appropriate.

• Conduct quality assurance and approve developed code linked to supplied specifications for production deployment.

• Provide guidance to colleagues on any aspect of program component design, creation, testing and documentation.

• Ensure that applications are built in line with continuous delivery/ continuous integration standards.

Preferred Qualification and Experience

• IT and Computer Sciences Degree

• Agile Software development methodologies and associated practices such as Continuous Integration, Continuous delivery, Software Defined Infrastructure as code, Evolutionary Architecture, Domain specific certification etc.

• IT Certifications eg. SAFe, Scrum Master

• Information Technology

• Solution Engineering

• 5-7 Years Experience - Dependent on the specific engineering practice but the candidate will have come from a background of full lifecycle design and development covering solution design, application design, development, testing and maintenance, network software, operating systems, multi-tier environments, desktop and workgroup software, middleware, server technology, fault tolerant environments, development tools. Broad experience of application development methodologies, data base methodology, programming languages, data base concepts and IT infrastructure and operations. Experience using Agile Software development methodologies and associated practices such as Continuous Integration, Software Defined Infrastructure, Evolutionary Architecture, etc.

• Practice Management and Leadership - 3-4 Years 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 of 1-2 years’ experience as a managerrunning a portfolio of 10+ technical experts

• Business Partnering and Service Management

• 3-4 Years Experience - 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

Knowledge/Technical Skills/Expertise

• Business Process Improvement

• Business Analysis

• Organisation Change Management

• Stakeholder Management

• Research and Information Gathering

• Trouble Shooting Ability

• IT Knowledge

• Benefits Management

• DevOps Knowledge and Execution

• Customer and Client Focused Innovation

• Aligning Business to Strategy

• Inspiring Performance for Execution

• Influencing Others

• Purposeful Collaboration

• Growing Capability

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Standard Bank Tech Lead - PBB IT Jobs in South Africa

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