Engineering Lead (API) at Nedbank

To envision, lead and develop fit for purpose, integrated end- to end technical solutions across multiple technologies for the organisation, through inspirational technical leadership and visionary long-term thinking. Provide leadership across multiple initiatives guiding engineering lead practitioners to achieve product / programme alignment. To play a technical lead role in the solutioning and delivery of disruptive cloud Nedbank driven Fintech solutions

Job Responsibilities

• Analyse problems and formulate solution based on organisations boundaries, architectures and constraints: Needs to be achievable and operational, must push boundaries when required and continuously push for improvements.
• Take proposed solutions through relevant governance forums and obtain acceptance for solutions from relevant specialists (domain or technology).
• Collaborate and communicate and obtain buy-in from key stakeholders.
• Decomposition of the solution and assisting with the scheduling/sequencing work and identification of resourcing needs.
• Flesh out designs and contribute to functional and non-functional requirements.
• Assist software designers with lower level designs.
• Troubleshoot issues relating to technical delivery.
• Design with a holistic, robust and sustainable mindset.
• Apply a product management mindset (long term thinking).
• Mentor and coach software engineering practitioners.
• Keep abreast of the technical landscape on how it fits together.
• Understand constraints and risk and make the necessary trade-offs.
• Influence and negotiate with key stakeholders.
• Craft the end to end solution taking into consideration: people, technology, systems and data.
• Future proof end to end solutions as far as possible within the organisation constraints.
• Continuously build and enhance the technical assets that are touched by the solution to ensure long term sustainability.
• Grow the engineering lead practice through contributing to the engineering lead chapter.
• Drive organisational alignment across areas of accountability
• Provide coaching, mentoring and upskilling of others within area of expertise
• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise
• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities
• Contribute to the Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking
• Ability to function and execute with minimum inputs and adjust direction based on new information.

Essential

Qualifications - NQF Level

• Diploma

Preferred Qualification

• BSc (Computer Science), BCom (Information Systems). Professional Qualification Level 6 (Look at new degree naming conventions)

Preferred Certifications

• Cloud Certification – AWS/Azure/Google/IBM/Oracle

Type of Exposure

• Management and integration of tooling related to DevOps practices in a Cloud environment
• Accuracy of realisation of design
• Analysing and interpreting quantitative and qualitative data for accurate design and implementation
• Conceptual design and managing production of websites and portals
• Multiple operating systems. Application programmes; Operating systems; IT infrastructure and system analysis
• Working with relevant software development languages

Minimum Experience Level

• 6 to 8 years line management or in a team lead capacity.
• 10 years IT Industry experience
• Experience in using cloud technologies in solving problems, namely Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud etc

Skills

• Demonstrating a proficiency across a number of diverse technologies. I.E. Java, Python, .NET, Ruby, Perl, etc.
• Demonstrating an understanding of clustered application containerization technologies, i.e. Docker Swarm, Kubernetes.
• Discuss where you have incorporated a custom or off the shelf analytics engine (Google Analytics, Omniture) into a greater solution to gather customer insights.
• Demonstrating an understanding of Dev-Ops and has experience with one or more tools within a continuous digital delivery lifecycle. These can include Jenkins, CircleCI, Bamboo, Buddybuild, Testflight, HockeyApp etc…
• Maintain awareness of opportunities provided by new technology to address challenges or to enable new ways of working
• Hands on operational experience in a (Kubernetes, Docker) containerized environment
• Project delivery using agile methodology
• Integration experience – working with REST/SOAP interfaces
• Project delivery with an offshore delivery team
• API Design – definition of swagger
• Development experience – API Gateway (IBM API Connect, AWS, Azure); NodeJS/Java/Go
• Documentation – system analysis and design
• Microservices Architecture

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• IT Architecture
• IT Concepts
• Systems Analysis and design

Behavioural Competencies

• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
• Decision Making
• Collaborating
• Innovation
• Influencing
• Managing Work
• Continuous Learning
• Coaching