Technical Lead - Africa at McKinsey & Company

About the job

As a Technical Lead, you will be a core member of the team with responsibilities that range from driving the architecture design and technology decisions for shaping the next generation products for various internal teams to ensuring that we stay on the leading edge of technology. You will also be responsible for leading multiple development teams while delivering best-in-class enterprise-grade software solutions across a breadth of different platforms and technologies.

You are a flexible and adaptive tech lead, who effectively communicates across a broad range of stakeholder groups from engineers to business users, as well as effectively leads a project workstream

What You'll Do

• You will work collaboratively in small teams and iteratively through design and development to deliver fully functioning web-based and mobile applications.
• In this role, you will employ agile methodologies to quickly provide our clients with the solutions they need. You will help combine the latest open source technologies together with traditional Enterprise software products.

Qualifications

• Post Grad or master’s degree; or equivalent work experience
• 5-8 years of experience in software development, including leading a team and a project workstream
• Strong application development knowledge of any of the following technologies JavaScript, React, Android (Kotlin/Java), Swift, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Java, .Net core, HTML, CSS
• Engineering practice experience such as code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, continuous integration, building highly scalable applications, application security, secure coding practice
• Demonstrated track record of successfully understanding the business requirements and designing realistic and effective solutions
• Knowledge of Agile software development process
• Knowledge of agile testing approaches such as unit, integration and end-to-end testing
• Familiarity with testing frameworks such as RSpec, JUnit or Selenium
• Good working knowledge of at least one cloud based hosting platform such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
• Working knowledge of continuous integration and delivery/deployment tools like CircleCI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Services, Bamboo or TeamCity
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and effectively with people at all levels in an organization
• Skills to communicate complex ideas effectively
• Willing to travel up to 80%
• Fluent in English. Additional languages is a plus