Technical Lead at BET Software

About the job

BET Software is one of the most diverse betting software providers in Sub-Saharan Africa, providing ground-breaking software on a global scale while supporting incredibly large transactional volumes in a fast-paced industry. Our multiskilled team is passionate about pushing boundaries to create world-class solutions. We offer a dynamic work environment that supports learning and growth, a place where you can flourish amongst like-minded individuals. Currently, on an exponential growth path, we’re increasing our footprint with the objective of establishing BET Software as a leader in global markets. Interested? There’s a lot we can’t predict in this business, but one thing is certain: you’ll never be bored.

BET is seeking a Technical Lead, the purpose of the Technical Lead is to plan, design, lead, and execute technical solutions and improvements within the respective software development team. The Technical Lead is a technical expert with a strong understanding of technology, systems architecture, data structures, and data sources.

Minimum requirements:

• Relevant Degree or Diploma.

• A background in Development in a commercial environment.

• At least 5 years experience in software project delivery and managing a team.

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 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 that 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 that 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 that 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 the team and to the wider group.

• Incorporates the new abilities into the day-to-day operational activities to improve the performance of products and systems.

• Ensure techniques, technologies, tools, and processes used are in line with industry best practices.

Knowledge Share

• Identify team members requiring 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 the transfer of the knowledge.

Skills and competencies:

• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)

• Strong levels of adaptability and decision-making capabilities.

• Capability to work under pressure and in a fast-paced growing environment.

• Resilience and forward-thinking mindset (ability to be resourceful)

• Must have attention to detail and take accountability.

• Excellent problem-solving capability.