Technical Lead at DigiOutsource

Purpose of the Role:

• Reporting to the Engineering Lead, the Technical Lead is part of a team that serves as the collective technical subject matter experts, responsible for the effective and efficient performance of products, providing technical direction and mentoring to the greater teams and ensuring innovation is at the forefront of development.

Duties include, but not limited to:

Leadership:

• Assist with mentoring on an individual and team level.
• Leading by example by following and enforcing best practices and standards.
• Building relationships with stakeholders.
• Conducting progression as well as external interviews.
• Assist with assessing technical competencies of the teams and individuals and providing guidance where required.
• Growing and nurturing talent.
• Familiarize the team with the development process, design standards, techniques and tools to support task performance.
• Together with senior developers, ensure there is an adequate onboarding process for new starters.

Execution on delivery:

• Ensuring that there is a solid SDLC in place for the teams to follow.
• Ensuring code reviews are done at an acceptable standard.
• Management of the technical execution and overall quality of the solution.
• Identify dependencies and designing technical solutions and transferring them to delivery teams.
• Auditing systems to have adequate monitoring and alerting.
• Analyse, detect, identify and assist in correcting technical problems and deficiencies.
• Acting as the last line of defence in Sev A-type (major) incidents.
• Ensure there is an adequate amount of documentation and automation coverage.

Innovation:

• Inspire and encourage innovation in teams.
• Assist with our cloud adoption programme.
• Looking towards new technology and changes in existing technology.
• Liaising with third-party vendors and creating POCs where applicable.
• Focus on the integrity of the systems with regards to quality, stability and scalability.
• Drive a development culture of innovation, ownership and efficiency.

Expertise:

• Constantly upskilling to keep up with the latest changes in technology.
• Able to quickly get up to speed with existing systems and products.
• Able to understand and deliver quality code.
• Able to provide solutions to complex tech and business problems.
• Ensuring that the Engineering Lead & Architecture Team’s vision is implemented when building or maintaining systems.

Duties to Engineering Lead:

• Highlight areas of innovation and improvement.
• Work with Engineering Lead on future state.
• Communicate the status and management of technical debt.
• Ensure general communication is open and honest and raise any concerns timeously.
• Ability to lead proactively and independently.

Essential Criteria:

• Computer Science related degree, diploma, similar qualification or demonstrated completion of courses.
• At least 5 years’ hands-on development experience.
• Proven knowledge of various development principles such as SOLID.
• Advanced knowledge of SDLC.
• Proven knowledge of CI/CD practises.
• Knowledge of DevOps tools such as Git, TFS, Jira etc.
• UML understanding.
• Understanding of OOP.
• Experience in working with Agile teams.
• Demonstrates consistent behaviour aligned to the Organizational Culture.

Personal competencies:

• Attention to detail
• Time and Self-Management
• Stress Tolerant
• Resilient
• Team Orientated
• Constant learner
• Problems solving
• Decision making