Software Technical Lead- JHB at BETSoftware

Skill Set

• Excellent communication, motivational and interpersonal skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Demonstrated mentoring/leadership skills.
• Proficiency in architectural design principles and fundamental concepts.
• Be able to Adapt to change.
• Time Management skills.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical leadership to the team through collaboration sessions and knowledge sharing initiatives.
• Engage regularly with software architects in order to ensure the development within the team is according to architectural guidelines.
• Work with other developers, designers/analysts, and architects to make sure that the solutions meet application requirements and performance goals.
• Ensure checked in code is reviewed to ensure standards are met and the code base is sound.
• Ensure that all technical solutions that are rolled out consider compatibility with other environments and dependencies; have a high usability factor; are reliable to reduce down time and perform at maximum efficiency during peak periods of usage; consider security at its highest level (third party attacks; data protection etc). 
• Drive the adoption of processes within the team which consider and meet the expectations of technical throughput rates and responses; processing times; effective resource utilization during operation and where the system or solution ensures maximum operational capacity requirements are met.

Quality of Software Implementation:

• Ensure rigorous testing of any solution before deployment and create standards and processes within the team to align to these.
• Ensure the delivery of a complete and technically appropriate solution which covers all the agreed specified tasks and user objectives and has been tested thoroughly.
• Ensure relevant documentation is provided to support teams to reduce development support load.
• Where possible work to develop and implement a quality mechanism for the solution to analyse its own faults and provide reports prior to a critical failure.
• Develop the solution in a manner which supports modification for future developers thereby reducing the numbers of defects or negatively affecting system quality.

Initiative and Innovation

• Implement improved processes that have a positive effect on the team’s performance and company bottom line. 
• Technical problems and opportunities are anticipated and dealt with immediately considering any technical dependencies. 
• Take an active involvement in problem resolution and where necessary works after hours to ensure that problems are resolved.
• Shows foresight to prevent errors or delays in projects.
• Demonstrate initiative by understanding, acquiring and implementing new knowledge and skills both within team and to the wider group.
• Incorporates the new abilities into the day-to-day operational activities to improve performance of products and systems.
• Ensure techniques, technologies, tools and processes used are in line with industry best practices. 
• Generates new ideas and challenges the status quo, takes risk, supports change and encourages innovation.
• Searches for opportunity to create new ideas and innovate or improve efficiencies wherever possible.
• Solves problems through questioning the status quo.
• Adapts to change by having a growth mindset, handling pressure well and demonstrating resilience. 
• Ensure quality decisions are made by collaborating with others, considering the possible short- and long-term implications, and basing decisions on a careful and systematic review of all the information. 

Knowledge Share

• Identify team members requiring a specific knowledge, skill or understanding and seek ways to impart or upskill the team members through coaching and mentorship 
• Verify the knowledge has been imparted successfully and if not, take steps to rectify gaps in transfer of the knowledge

Coaching/Mentoring

• Provides guidance, training, and problem-solving assistance to other Team Members from a technical point of view.
• Mentors and contributes to the growth of junior, intermediate and senior team members.
• Designs and delivers end-user training and training materials.

Living the Spirit:

• Actively drives a culture of collaboration and open communication within the team. 
• Actively promotes authenticity and drives the spirit of diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging within the team.
• Actively drives a culture of versatility and adaptability by modelling and encouraging team members to support each other not only within the department, but within the business as a whole. 
• Actively become a change agent and drive continuous learning within the team thus ensuring that the team approaches all tasks or challenges with enthusiasm and proactivity.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 7 years’ experience within a development environment.
• Proficiency in architectural design principles and fundamental concepts.
• Demonstrated mentoring/leadership skills.
• Detailed knowledge of the SDLC and management of software projects.
• Excellent communication, motivational and interpersonal skills.
• Strong attention to detail

Apply Before 11/28/2025