Lead, Technical

Join to apply for the Lead, Technical role at Standard Bank Group . Company Description Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa, bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you. Job Description We are seeking a talented and innovative Salesforce Technical Lead to join our team in Johannesburg, South Africa. As the Salesforce Technical Lead, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality Salesforce Solutions against required standards and timelines, that meet our clients' needs and drive our organisation's success, through the team of Salesforce Software Engineers / Developers that you will be responsible for. Working closely with various architects you will design fit-for-purpose Salesforce solutions, which you will be responsible to get support for through our governance process. As a hands‑on senior developer and configurator, you will: Be responsible for the end-to-end technical delivery of the solution. Be responsible for the technical design of the solution. Be responsible for attaining support and approval of the solution through the bank’s governance process. Ensure configurations and code follow our approved standards. Drive standardisation and reuse of solutions. Ensure necessary refactoring of solutions to ensure they remain performant, secure, reusable, maintainable and in line with our architectures. Be responsible for the overall quality of the solution. Interpret business requirements. Define technical tasks. Perform end to end testing. Supporting and troubleshooting technical questions, software and database issues. Lead, manage and mentor Salesforce software and quality engineers across your delivery teams to build and improve the engineering capability. The Salesforce Technical Lead will be accountable for end-to-end delivery of all technical solution delivery (engineering aspects) in the identified delivery teams, adhering to set standards, practices and quality expectations: Adopt and adhere to suitable and agreed development methodologies and principles through work outputs and behaviours that enables continuous delivery and development across the production environment as well as ensuring effective collaboration with all colleagues and stakeholders to meet required targets and therefore deliver value to the customer. Build, code 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 to ensure they are as per agreed specification. Conduct quality assurance and approve developed code linked to supplied specifications for production deployment. Construct, interpret and execute end-to-end system and program tests to verify correct operation of completed systems. Prepare test cases for unit testing purposes and review test cases as produced by other developers for unit testing purposes as required. Qualifications Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Information Technology. Post Graduate Degree: Information Technology. Salesforce Certifications Platform Developer I Platform Developer II Platform App Builder Experience Cloud Consultant Copado Fundamentals 1 and 2 Experience Required 5-7 years of proven experience leading and developing salesforce solutions; 1-2 years as a manager running a portfolio of 10+ technical experts. 8-10 years experience translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create solutions. Mandatory experience 3-4 years Salesforce development experience (can be concurrent with the above experience timelines). Experience with Salesforce Experience Cloud and Salesforce Service Cloud, and customer-facing solutions. Experience as a Salesforce Team lead and ability to do code reviews/QA of team members’ code. Familiarity with Salesforce DevOps tools such as Copado and non-production environment deployments. Knowledge of Salesforce coding best practices and automated code‑review software. Ability to foster a learning environment for continuous improvement of code quality and solution integration. Additional Information Behavioural Competencies Team Leadership Fostering Teamwork Leading by example Adopting practical approaches Articulating information Developing expertise Producing output Risk management Technical Competencies Agile engineering API engineering Automation Cloud computing Continuous deployment Continuous integration (CI) Data engineering Design thinking Lightening Web Components Infrastructure as code (IaC) Scalability and reusability Microservices Non-abstract large system design (NALSD) Observability (application and web analytics) Post-incidence analysis Reliability and resilience, including web security knowledge System integration Test-driven design (TDD) Seniority level Mid‑Senior level Employment type Full-time Job function Engineering and Information Technology #J-18808-Ljbffr