Software Development Manager at Capitec Bank

The Role:

• We're looking for a Software Development Manager who will provide strategic technical direction, manage multiple teams, and ensure our technology platforms are resilient, scalable and secure. You'll be a strategic partner to the product head, providing end-to-end technical leadership, building high-performing teams, and driving product and platform architecture.
• This is an opportunity to shape a critical technology environment, influence modern engineering practices at scale, and lead teams through a meaningful cloud and platform transformation journey.

What you’ll do:

• Provide end-to-end technical leadership across product/platform delivery, system health, engineering standards, support and maintenance.
• Build and lead high-performing software teams, create the conditions for predictable delivery and drive continuous improvement.
• Set the standards for how code is deployed across pipelines, ensure system reliability and drive modern engineering and platform practices
• Work closely with architects to shape solutions and define how those solutions need to be implemented — while architecture remains a specialist discipline, you will need the technical depth to challenge, guide and shape implementation decisions
• Oversee IT governance across the teams
• Drive technology modernisation across the team
• Through cloud computing, AWS, event-driven architecture, automation and platform engineering practices.
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across the business

What we’re looking for:
Technical skills:

• Our technology modernisation requires a thorough understanding of cloud computing, AWS, event-driven architecture, automation and platform engineering practices.

Specifically, you'll need:

• Strong cloud computing knowledge — AWS is our enterprise platform, so AWS experience makes the biggest difference)
• A solid grasp of event-based architecture, the patterns used, how distributed systems work and observability
• An understanding of architecture and technical strategy — enough to shape solutions and engage with architects at a senior level

Leadership and management:

• Proven ability to lead, develop and grow multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Strong delivery management — you set the pace and remove the blockers
• Experience driving reskilling and team transformation
• Confident stakeholder management, with the ability to engage across technical and business audiences

Experience:

• You'll need at least 8 years of software engineering experience, with 3–5 of those in an engineering leadership or technical management role.
• You should have experience leading multidisciplinary teams, delivering cloud-native solutions (preferably AWS), working with event-driven architecture and managing stakeholders.​
• Demonstrated experience with event-driven and distributed architectures in high-volume or highly integrated environments.
• Experience improving engineering maturity through DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, Infrastructure as Code and platform practices.

Qualifications:

• Minimum: Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related Engineering discipline.
• Certifications: AWS Cloud Practitioner or equivalent cloud foundation certification.
• AWS Solutions Architect strongly preferred.
• Preferred Honours degree or relevant postgraduate qualifications
• FinOps, DevOps, Security, TOGAF, SAFe and Kubernetes certifications advantageous.

Conditions of Employment

• Clear criminal and credit record