Technical Team Leader - Wesbank at FNB South Africa

Job Description

• To provide strategic guidance in developing and enhancing technical practices, ensuring alignment with industry best standards and driving continuous improvement. This job leads, mentors, and develops a team of technical specialists to deliver high-quality operational, project, and technical support that fosters business efficiency, innovation, and sustainable growth.

Are you someone who can:

• Prepare applications for release days.
• Manage Code Review Sessions.
• Assist with Technical Design Sessions.
• Provide team leadership to a range of developers and provide guidance to Systems Analysts
• Implement processes, build customer service delivery excellence and encourage others to provide exceptional service.
• Create and maintain working relationships with a variety of stakeholders for purposes of expectation management, knowledge sharing and integration.
• Translate business IT requirements into implementable solutions and continuously monitor to ensure operational continuity and effectiveness.
• Ensure adequate unit, system integration and post implementation unit tests are performed for all configuration and development tasks. Ensure testing yields an acceptable level of performance for the changes being delivered.
• Assess, identify and mitigate potential risks within the IT function by complying with technology business policy and process requirements (SDLC and change / release management process definition) to ensure operational performance.
• Design relevant IT Solution and produce specification and architecture in accordance to agreed standards against the requirements and approved by the appropriate governance forums.
• Analyse and/or identify problems/requirements to determine impact, patterns and trends, best fit alternatives and best practice solutions. Determine the estimated resources and timelines required to deliver the required functionality.
• Oversee and manage all technical support request escalated and ensure effective resolution within the Service Level Agreement.
• Implements functional IT strategy in support of business objectives with particular focus on operational and service excellence.
• Participate in specialist communities of practice and contribute positively to own and organisational knowledge improvement.
• Support effective teamwork within the function. Participate and collaborate across teams.
• Plan and manage, team capacity, skills development, talent and culture of team in order to improve innovation, achieve efficiencies and increase competencies.

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• Matic and an IT related Degree or Diploma
• 7+ years plus related technical experience  
• 2 years plus experience managing complex technical specialist teams.
• Have 5 years + experience in programming and system design.
• Have System Design experience (advantageous).
• Have experience with Object Oriented Programming and Design Patterns.
• Experience in Java and Spring frameworks
• Experienced in Unit and Performance testing tools and metrics
• Full stack development experience is a plus
• AWS exposure is a plus
• Data Streaming exposure is a plus
• Experienced with Integration mechanisms and services.
• Knowledge of Design principles
• Understanding of Domain Driven Design
• Understanding of Queueing technologies

End Date: May 3, 2026