Engineering Manager - Sandton at iOCO

Job Purpose:

As an Engineering Manager, the incumbent will be responsible for the enablement and management of a multi-disciplinary software and data platforms engineering team that works in two teams, namely: Enterprise Integration platforms: This is a full-stack team that builds and manages our enterprise integration services including the enterprise data access layer.

Data platform engineering: This is a full stack team (leaning towards modern engineering practices) that builds and manages the provision of a modern data platform in the cloud, including associated operations and architectural capabilities.

Skills and Experience

What you’ll do:

• Contribute to crafting of departmental business plan to ensure delivery of focus areas for the year in support of IT strategy.
• Manage the entire technology lifecycle of the area of responsibility, including alignment to the strategic objectives through appropriate application portfolio practices and roadmap planning and execution
• Champion the reliable delivery of software through continuous improvement of the software development practice.
• Enable the DevSecOps philosophy by collaborating with CyberSec, IT operations and business operations teams to build software that is secure and maintainable.
• Manage the transition from development to operations, ensuring a smooth rollout, deployment and transfer to the operational and support in production.
• Lead a team of software, quality, data engineers and business\systems analysts spread across two teams.

Your expertise:

• 8 -10 years experience in Software engineering.
• 8+ years .NET and C# development experience.
• 8+ years Object Oriented Programming (OOP).
• 3 – 5 years experience in architecting data platforms hosted on a public cloud provider (i.e. Azure or AWS) or with the latest hardware and software engineering competencies.
• 4+ years in a successful Agile environment with hands-on experience working with Agile principles and practices.
• Experience in leading an IT Engineering team.
• A track record of retaining, growing, and retaining great people.
• Experience in managing engineering teams in a Financial Services company.
• Capital Markets experience will be advantageous.
• Experience with test automation, gated commits, continuous integration (CI), and continuous deployment (CD) patterns.
• Experience in SOLID, GRASP, and Other Basic Principles of Object-Oriented Design.
• Significant experience running teams responsible for building and running micro-services, API Gateways, and enterprise service bus (ESB) architectures including messaging systems, and RESTful API.
• A combination of a highly technical hands-on software developer and an effective people manager.

Qualifications Required:

• Degree in Computer Science/ Computer Systems Engineering.
• Strong experience in building fast, robust, effective, and efficient analytics data pipelines with modern cloud development technologies covering data collection, transformation, storage, and exposure.