Head of Engineering: Customer

6 days ago

Parow, South Africa The Foschini Group Full time

**Job ID**:12184
- **Position Type**:Full-Time
- **Job Function**:Information Technology
- **Workplace Type**:Head Office
- **Division**:TFG Infotec
- **Province**:Western Cape
- **Location**:Cape Town North
- **Suburb**:Parow (Parow)

Position Description:
We're looking for a **Head of Engineering: Customer** to be part of our Customer & Insights team to build a strong team of engineers that will operate within the Customer Domain (Financial Services, Stores & Loyalty).

With a robust strategy focusing on People, Process and Technology, we believe that our culture and the quality of our people are our greatest strengths. As such, we need to employ top talent to support our key business functions.

TFG’s IT division provides innovative, strategic and cost-effective ICT solutions and professional services to TFG and its subsidiaries. Working for TFG means; working with highly talented professional individuals, who are passionate about collaboration, creativity and working towards successful customer service.
**The Key Performance Areas of this role will be as follows**:

- Lead engineering strategy for customer technology platforms, partnerships and other external relationships
- Provide engineering leadership in solutioning and design customer systems
- Define the way engineering gets done within customer function.
- Guide the selection and implementation of development methodologies, collaboration tools, code, and documentation standards, source control usage, and code review guidelines, etc.
- Responsible for feature deployment and stability of customer platforms
- Responsible for revisiting our foundational PoS design, re-architecting FS data chains and integration and developing a holistic cloud and open standard strategy.
- Ensure that all customer platforms are built in a scalable and stable manner, taking advantage of new integration patterns and enabling the future platform business.
- Negotiate cost-effective contracts for TFG. Coordinate and implement contractors’ work, and resolve any disputes over labour, scheduling, or payments.
- Recruit, interview, hire and train engineering team members. Oversee the strategic and tactical workflow of the customer engineering team. Accountable for internal SLAs

**Requirements**:

- Must have a relevant 4-year degree or equivalent in working experience
- Data Engineering certification or experience
- 7 years experience building enterprise software and consumer-facing products. Deep expertise in back-end and front-end development
- 7 years experience in project delivery and people management
- 5 years data management, data analysis, query processing, distributed processing, high availability, and operational excellence of production systems
- 7 years full stack architecture expertise familiar with.NET, ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript, Angular, HTML5, RDBMs with exposure to Xamarin, React and Python.
- DevOps implementation experience, and knowledge of cloud technologies / Kubernetes / Docker-based development
- Experience working with REST API’s, code packages, deployment tools

**Competencies and behaviours for success**:

- Strong conflict management skills
- Excellent written communication, presentation and negotiation skills
- A focus on delivering results and meeting customer expectations
- Sound judgement, decision-making, and problem-solving skills
- High resilience and agility with the ability to work well under pressure and deliver to aggressive deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- High emotional intelligence and experience in leading diverse teams and individuals
- Ability to drive change, persuade and influence both internal and external stakeholders
- Exceptional leadership skills including the ability to attract, hire, retain and motivate a senior team and a talent pipeline

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