Principal Technology Engineering Lead

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Barrett's Recruitment Workhouse Full time

**Purpose of the Role**:
The company continues to question if we are as effective as we can be, we seek ways to improve efficiency and reduce duplication of effort. For this reason we have created this new exciting opportunity within the Tech team.

As the Principal Engineering Lead you will be tasked with reviewing the way of work within the Engineering teams. Understanding the needs of our business and aligning our teams in a way that enables them to rapidly deliver on business requirements with mínimal cross team dependencies.

Maintaining a tight partnership between Architecture and Engineering will be a critical expectation to ensure we realize our target architecture consistently throughout all teams. By embracing the goals of our elastic enterprise, where products remain loosely coupled we will further enhance our ability to achieve true team autonomy.

Working closely with the Technology Head, the focus will be on people management, engineering execution, technical leadership and strategy development.

This new position will form part of the Technology leadership team who will continue to work tightly as one team with a primary focus on meeting the needs of our business both on new innovative ideas, incremental product improvements, operational support and reduction of technical debt.

One of our other goals will be to improve the ability for business partners to configure our systems allowing our engineering teams to focus on building new functionality, always exploring the possibility of utilizing off the shelf solutions to reduce custom development time.

**Duties include, but not limited to**:

- Co-develop the Technical Strategy alongside the Head of Technology and drive the successfully execution of this strategy within the engineering teams.
- Establish incremental steps to progress the organization towards our desired architectural state, allowing for temporary concessions to maintain momentum and ensure ongoing advancement.
- Work closely with the Project Management Office to ensure successful and timeous delivery of technology driven projects.
- Act as an ambassador for the company and its culture by leading the engineering teams in a humble respectful manner, fostering a positive constructive working environment where we have fun while working hard, encouraging innovation.
- Knowing both the Business and Technical goals define a roadmap that is achievable and realizes both
- Successfully transform the company into an elastic computing world working closing with the Head of IT to achieve this in a secure and cost-effective manner.
- Identify, compare, select and implement technology solutions to meet current and future needs
- Oversee the management of designing/development and coding of new and current business systems as required
- Manage the enforcement of technology standards and practices especially focusing on the SDLC that includes our Architectural and Information Security goals
- Consolidate technology platforms in a way that aligns with our Business Service teams and strategies.
- Optimize the use of technology products by aligning with the greater Group, embracing the Group Tech Radar and Tech Adoption process looking for opportunities of re-use or collaboration.
- Track, analyse and monitor technology performance metrics, aligning with the DORA metrics and creating a performance culture where targets are set against these metrics and achieved
- Oversee the management of all system design and changes in system architecture
- Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in the technology landscape

**Essential Criteria**:

- At least 7 - 10 years technical experience
- Proven Leadership experience in managing multiple teams.
- Knowledge of Technology Trends to build a successful strategy
- Proven Solutions Focused approach able to turn problems into opportunities
- Excellent communication skills and able to present confidently to large audiences
- Proven experience in Stakeholder management and ability to nurture positive collaborative relationships
- Excellent stress management skills with the ability to absorb and deliver consistently and positively
- Experience and successful workforce planning and employee retention strategies

**Person Specifications**:

- Adaptability
- Building Relationships
- Organizational Awareness
- Communication
- Continuous Renewal
- Critical Thinking
- Customer/Stakeholder Orientation
- Decision Making
- Efficiency & Effectiveness
- Information Monitoring
- Initiating Action
- Integrity
- Organization & Planning
- Ownership & Accountability
- Problem solving
- Quality Focus
- Team Orientation
- Tenacity
- Stress Management
- Self-Awareness
- Business Acumen
- Influence
- Coaching for Success
- Conflict Management
- Facilitating Change
- Innovation
- Knowledge Transfer
- Resilience
- Presenting with Impact

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

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