Technical Lead

5 days ago

Cape Town, South Africa Iress Limited Full time

**See yourself being part of a large, transformational change? This could be the role for you**:
**Who We Are**:
At Iress, we believe technology should help people perform better every day. Since our beginning in 1993, people across financial services have trusted us to take their performance to the next level. From the world’s most established financial brands to new and disruptive players, we help improve every aspect of our clients’ businesses so that they can work better, every day. Iress is one of Australia’s largest technology companies and employs more than 2,300 people across Australia, United Kingdom, South Africa, Canada, New Zealand and Asia.

**Role Purpose**:
The Tech Lead is responsible for providing leadership in all technical aspects of product engineering, from inception to deployment and production support. It is a technical leadership role performed by senior engineers who have expertise in several technical specialisations such as “Software”, “Data”, “Support & Reliability” and deep knowledge of at least one, but preferable several business domains.

This is a great advancement opportunity for Senior Engineers who have demonstrated the technical engineering capabilities and have the leadership attributes required to lead other engineers. The role will focus on driving and delivering on business outcomes as well as helping improve engineering capabilities and technical approaches within their team.

**Your objectives and responsibilities will focus on **
- Guides and coaches teams in the techniques used to write clean code. Ensures that PR's and code committed by less experienced team members are uplifted, with high-quality guidance and mentoring provided.
- Coach and lead other team members on approaches to ensure test quality that is consistent with broader Iress teams. Helps the ETL ensure there is a continuous improvement in software quality through improved and maintainable testing methods and execution.
- Perform, guide and lead teams in problem-solving and root cause analysis. Leads less experienced engineers in retrospectives and educational sessions to reduce reoccurring issues.
- Contribute to the development of effective and efficient observability within teams. Leads capability uplift related to observability within teams. Ensures the implementation of observability is consistent.
- Ensures loosely coupled architectures are designed and engineered in ways that enable clear boundaries and are done so in alignment with Iress' service-oriented architecture. Leads and guides the team to build software that is easy to automate (all levels of automation).
- Ensure security of software is effective and continuously fosters a mindset within teams, leading by example. Drives continuous uplift of software security and leverages automation and the pipelines to do so. Leads remediation of any security issues found post-commit.
- Leads the design and build of automation through build and deployment pipelines. Guides teams and advocates to consistent/common tooling to achieve automated CICD outcomes

**To be successful in this role you will
**Have proven ability to collaborate with wider Iress teams to ensure consistency of quality outcomes, comfortable with ambiguity. Driving software quality by utilising the test pyramid, leading other engineers in testing across the pipeline, including security, performance, load, functional and integration testing. You will have high EQ to be able to clearly communicate internally and externally in an engaging manner and have a growth mindset and excitement about tackling the next challenge. You will have experience in mentoring Junior Engineers, Involving others to build a sense of ownership and to demonstrate the confidence to act quickly, decisively and empathically, while balancing risk and considering Commercial impact.

You will have strong programming skills developed through working in an Agile-based environment with a 'DevOps' focus and experience in: Cloud based technologies, BuildKite, Jenkins, GoCD, Docker, Windows Containers, ECS or Kubernetes, Coding, Software and System Architecture, Multi-paradigm database/data-storage, database and caching technologies.

You will also be experienced in risks, issues and operational requirements of using third-party solutions as well as internally developed technology together with system architecture experience - designing for system integrations including clean integration to external software solutions

**Why work with us?**:

- Competitive base salary
- 6 paid days per year to extend your weekends + 25 days annual leave
- Annual Leave + (Purchased Leave)
- Hybrid & Flexible Working
- Life & Income Protection Insurance
- Global opportunities
- Provident Fund Membership
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave
- Annual Profit Share (Triggered when annual profit targets are met)
- Access to various learning and development programs
- 3 days’ leave per year for charity initiatives
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