Lead Product Engineer

@Optimus-Convergia is Hiring

#Lead_Product_Engineer

• Preference will be given to South African Based Resources

Job purpose

The Lead Product Engineer (GPA) will be responsible for building high performing, scalable, enterprise grade applications. This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver. This role will be residing at the Glacier Office in Rosebank, Johannesburg, reporting directly to the Development Lead in GPA.

Key outcomes

The following outcomes will be expected to be achieved by Lead Product Engineer

DevOps:

•    Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions leveraging C# (.NET), SQL Server, JavaScript/Typescript, ReactJs, Jenkins, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Git

•    Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process

•    Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions

•    Develop high quality software / application design and architecture

•    Enable the team to quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions

•    Leverage troubleshooting skills and underlying knowledge of technology to solve technical challenges during the design, implementation and support phase of the project.

•    Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience

•    Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions

•    Create & Maintain Sophisticated DevSecOps CI/CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and AzureDevOps for deployment to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)

•    Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application using AppDynamics, Instana and OpenTelemetry.

•    Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, Powershell, Groovy

•    Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.

•    Work with guilds and other technical SME's to improve and evolve technical products and services

•    Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing using Moq

and MsTest

•    Managing branching and merging in support of project delivery. Setup quality gates to ensure conformance to team best practices

•    Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines

•    Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.

•    Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
•      Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting

languages, containerization etc.

People

•    Coach & mentor other engineers

•    Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team

•    Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization

•    Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team

•    Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

•    Monitor, address and escalate any performance concerns with team members

Risk & Governance

•    Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment)

•    Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks

•    Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals)

•    Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents

•    Deliver on time & on budget (always)

Qualifications and experience

•    Relevant qualification in IT, preferably a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Informatics or Equivalent

• years' experience in development lifecycle

•  Experience in an agile environment

•    Experience in coaching and mentoring other engineers

•     Experience in solution design

•    Experience in reading code written in C#, SQL Server, JavaScript/Typescript, Groovy, JSON/YAML
•     Experiencing in translating business problems into technical solutions

•    Understanding of relational databases including stored procedures and ETL

•  Understanding of modelling language such as UML and BPMN

•    Experience in investments/LISP would be advantageous

CVs should be Directed to: Zweli.- or -