Takealot.com is the leading ecommerce retailer in South Africa and one of the largest, most innovative ecommerce retailers on the African continent.
Our mission is to be the most customer-centric online shopping destination in Africa, built around the simple concept that the customer comes first.
All of our focus is dedicated to improving the customer ...
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Establish the company’s technical vision and lead all aspects of technological development.
Play a crucial role in driving technological innovation, shaping the digital roadmap, and ensuring the successful implementation of technology initiatives.
Collaborating closely with product and business leadership to ensure the company's technology requirements are aligned with the company’s vision, strategy, and roadmap
Help steer the organisation toward greater efficiencies and better performance by adopting the right technology investments
Identify technology trends to continuously scale up the products with a strong focus on AI capabilities to drive customer experience and resource efficiency
Develop IT architecture strategies, partnering with the security team to implement changes to existing technology, keeping up to date with current and future levels of IT security, threats, vulnerabilities
Demonstrate strong leadership traits to gain the trust & confidence of existing technology and product leaders and build a culture of growth, learning, and innovation
Build a vibrant engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, teamwork, and curiosity
Maintain rigorous performance management practices to uphold high standards of performance and accountability whilst maintaining, growing, and evolving our group's technical talent and organisational structure.
Ensure the technical budget is properly forecasted, monitored, and optimized.
Qualifications & Experience:
Should bring 20+ years of experience, with the last 5-8 years in leadership roles in eCommerce or relevant industry will be beneficial
The leader should be willing to get his hands dirty whenever needed and should have a strong desire to work with engineers at all levels.
Proven track record of crafting and rolling out several technologies and products to fast-paced, dynamic businesses.
Experience in working on complex systems and the adoption of new and state-of-the-art technologies is helpful.
Expertise in large-scale application development, data engineering, mobile app development, and SAAS technologies.
Hands-on experience in architecting distributed and big-data systems using the newest technologies.
Should have a sound understanding of analytics systems. Should have built platforms/systems/applications supporting large numbers of users and transactions
Should have been an integral part of the product management lifecycle from conception to delivery.
A track record of owning products from start to finish would be an added advantage.
Strong track record of leading managers and high-performing engineering teams. Should have demonstrated outstanding people leadership skills.
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