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  • Posted: Sep 19, 2023
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    We believe in hiring talented, hardworking and ambitious people from all over the world. In return, we ensure a supportive working environment, access to leading edge technologies and a commitment to social awareness and equity. Working in this unique and highly competitive industry means that we have to take risks and be innovative. The way we do this is...
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    Team Lead - Affiliates

    Purpose of the Role:

    • The Team Lead will be required to effectively lead and execute the Development portfolio and related activities within the relevant IGX: Affiliate Team. This is a key role for the business that requires an entrepreneurial individual who can direct software development activities in all aspects of the SDLC (QA + DEV). The successful candidate will gain much satisfaction from solving a wide variety of challenging problems while playing a pivotal role within a small and focused team. The successful candidate will report to the Product Delivery Manager.

    Duties include, but not limited to:

    Operating Duties

    • Management of a team including recruitment, appraisals, allocation of duties and other related management functions.
    • Support team building and team development by utilizing the abilities and skills of individuals and fostering a feedback culture.
    • Address team needs efficiently and effectively and expedite communication strategies to ensure impediments are resolved quickly.
    • Coordinate the on boarding process for new starters.
    • Work closely with Product Owners, Tech Leads and DevOps to ensure all aspects of software product requirements are covered.
    • Allocation of developers in accordance with the backlog prioritization.
    • Familiarize the team with the customer needs, specifications, design targets, the development process, design standards, techniques and tools to support task performance.
    • 1-to-1s with everyone in the team on a monthly basis.
    • Grow team competency on a business and technical level, individually and as a collective.
    • Interviewing of candidates, both internal and external for QA and Dev.
    • Creating a career growth plan for each member of the team using the skills assessment process.
    • Conduct performance reviews for all team members.
    • Roll out new processes and tools that will improve work processes within team.
    • Maintain healthy group dynamics and creating a positive, delivery focused team culture
    • Be the face of the team, accepting accountability for the team’s delivery.
    • Ensure that the team delivers high quality products within agreed upon time frames.
    • Prepare QA testing strategy relating to planning, design, implementation, execution and exit reporting.
    • Ensure developer and tester collaboration in order to deliver the best product possible.

    Support to Product Delivery Manager

    • Assisting the Product Delivery Manager to ensure the knowledge sharing and flow of information is actively happening throughout the team.
    • Understand the vision with the Product Delivery Manager and continually drive the vision within the team by creating goals and ensuring that they are met.
    • Remove impediments where possible and to raise the ones you can’t to the Product Delivery Manager and ensure they are dealt with.
    • Report on all aspects of team dynamics; growth, project progress, recruitment needs and other team needs.
    • Ensure that relationships with other teams are smooth and that in all aspects processes and expectations are well defined.

    Support to Technical Lead

    • Ensuring that the Architectural vision is implemented when building or maintaining systems and including such items within the product scope.
    • Assist in driving system and development methodologies as recommended by the Tech Lead & Architecture Team.
    • Ensure that deployed solutions operate according to architectural specifications and DevOps requirements.
    • Facilitate time allocation for developer up-skilling via Tech Lead, Architecture or consulted teams.
    • Support to Product Owner
    • Assist in the adoption and nurturing of Scrum methodology in the team; creating an iterative and “Agile” culture.
    • Ensure that the team are working accordingly to the backlog priority.
    • Assisting to ensure all projects are tracked and delivered upon customer expectations and within required timelines.
    • Assist the product owner in ensuring all individuals are properly briefed on project requirements.
    • Keep the product owner informed of task accomplishment, issues and status.
    • Ensuring the team commit only to what they can achieve within a sprint based on the teams known velocity.

    Essential Criteria:

    • At least 6 months experience within DigiTech
    • Knowledge and experience of working with Agile Scrum delivery methods
    • Relevant leadership/management qualification
    • Pervious leadership experience
    • Demonstrates behaviour aligned with Combiinedf values and DOS culture.
    • Desirable Criteria:
    • Computer Science related degree, diploma or similar qualification.
    • Technical leadership experience

    Person Specifications:

    • Accountability And Execution
    • Adaptability / Flexibility
    • Commitment and Effort
    • Control And Efficiency
    • Customer Focus
    • Initiating Action
    • Resilience
    • Stress Tolerance
    • Technical Knowledge
    • Planning & Organising

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    Product Delivery Manager - Affiliates

    Purpose of the Role:

    The Product Delivery Manager is a key member of the portfolio’s senior operational management team, working closely with the Head of Portfolio to develop and deliver a range of services in keeping with the portfolio’s operational functions and those of the wider business.

    As the Product Delivery Manager, you are responsible and accountable for the technical implementation and delivery of software solutions. This person will need to maintain detailed application and domain knowledge to support technical teams’ delivery, and swiftly responding to changing requirements through the effective management of multi-disciplined, cross-functional teams and work schedules.

    You are to clear any impediments that may slow down team progress on a project and set the timelines on which products will be delivered. This position reports into the Head of Portfolio.

    Duties include, but not limited to:

    • Collaborate with the Head of Portfolio, Engineering Lead and Product Managers in formulating and executing strategic and operational plans in partnership with other business units.
    • Work with the Head of Portfolio and other senior managers to ensure that all performance targets are met.
    • Fully accountable for delivery of product KPI’s
    • Fully accountable for all DORA metrics
    • Drive and promote passion and pride in products.
    • Responsible for regular delivery & tech demo sessions with DigiTech.
    • Ensure our people are being retained, motivated, and developed.
    • Monitor the delivery of performance development and modernisation plans.
    • Promote team/product delivery through frequent product demos
    • Promote continuous improvement in all areas of software development (productivity efficiency, policies, standards, best practices, upskilling).
    • Take an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of release/sprint goals
    • Assist in critical support issues where experience is required to ascertain issues quickly and to find more appropriate resolution  
    • Proposals and review of technical integrity, quantification of risk, and strategic direction
    • Track and frequently report on product capital expenditure & operational expenditure; continuously find ways to reduce CapEx & OpEx.
    • Responsible for maintaining and continuously reviewing product risk registers in accordance with ISO27001 standards

    This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities. The job holder may be required to complete any other reasonable duties in order to achieve business objectives.

    Essential Criteria:

    • Demonstrates consistent behaviour aligned to the Organizational Culture.
    • Be prepared to work in a 24/7 environment.
    • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a technology environment
    • Minimum of 1 years’ experience in Leadership
    • Strong Tech Development Skillset
    • Proven understanding of the software development life cycle
    • Strong business knowledge 
    • Track record of managing/leading multiple successful projects
    • Knowledge & understanding of statistics (ability to challenge & drive high performance from data)
    • Facilitate expertise and serve as subject matter expert for designated product areas.
    • Comfortable presenting findings in presentation and/or meetings

    Desirable Criteria:

    • Relevant certifications and qualifications
    • Strong business knowledge 
    • Track record of managing/leading multiple successful projects
    • Knowledge & understanding of statistics (ability to challenge & drive high performance from data)
    • Facilitate expertise and serve as subject matter expert for designated product areas.
    • Comfortable presenting findings in presentation and/or meetings
    • Be prepared to work in a 24/7 environment
    • Proven understanding of the software development life cycle

    Person Specifications:

    • Management, Motivation and Leadership
    • Stakeholder Management
    • Initiative
    • Building Relationships
    • Decision Making
    • Strategic Thinking
    • Organisation and Planning
    • Communication
    • Resilience
    • Results Orientation
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Tenacity
    • Team Orientation

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    Performance Test Engineer - Cape Town

    Purpose of the role

    The Performance Test Engineer (PTE) would take on some of the responsibilities of the current Performance Test Team (PTT), ensuring performance testing is carried out across our services & products.

    • You, as the PTE, will be assigned to a technology stream, where you will work closely with multiple development teams made up of Developers & QA’s to performance test features before they are released into production.
    • The PTE will be tasked with running end-to-end performance test projects with industry-standard tools and present the results back to agile teams to determine how these features and changes will impact the performance of our products.
    • You will also be tasked with working closely with Senior PTE’s and the Performance Test Architect to design, plan and implement features of the team’s annual strategy driving forwards innovation within the teams themselves and working with cutting edge technologies to streamline current processes.  Some features include implementation of infrastructure-as-code; automated performance testing with automated analysis and dashboarding; and implementation of performance testing within the products CI/CD pipelines.

    Duties will include (but not limited to):

    • Identifying upcoming features and projects which require performance testing in development teams
    • Running end-to-end performance test projects for different agile teams within the business in the Microsoft Azure cloud
    • Performance test environment implementation & optimisation (including costs & infrastructure-as-code) in the Microsoft Azure Cloud
    • Elements of building performance test environments, including performance test stubs (mocks)
    • Implementation of automated performance testing processes within development teams
    • Regular reviews of automated performance testing to ensure everything is running correctly and breaches of non-functional requirements (NFR’s) are thoroughly investigated
    • Working with and coaching Junior PTE’s to help them develop their knowledge across performance testing & project management
    • Promoting performance testing practices within the business
    • Presenting performance test results to development teams and providing recommendations to the teams to improve performance test processes & the application under test
    • Working with Senior team members to refine and improve processes within the team

    Essential Criteria:

    • Previous experience working in a dedicated performance test team
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
    • Excellent project management & stakeholder management skills
    • Previous experience using industry-wide performance testing tools (e.g. Microfocus LoadRunner, K6 or JMeter)
    • Experience of running performance test projects from requirements gathering to test reporting
    • Good stakeholder management skills to produce reports, talk through and present to non-technical audiences
    • Experience in Continuous Integration/Delivery
    • Experience in testing applications hosted in the cloud, particularly Microsoft Azure
    • The ability to manage you’re your own workload and backlog, handling stress effectively
    • Experience with an object-oriented programming language (e.g. C#)
    • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform)
    • Demonstrates consistent behavior aligned to the Combiined F and Organizational Culture

    Desirable Criteria:

    • Experience working with JSON
    • Experience using Jira
    • Experience working in Kanban environments
    • Experience working with build & deployment tools
    • Experience with Elasticsearch & Grafana
    • Experience in coaching and mentoring junior team members
    • Experience with the performance test tool K6

    Person Specification

    • Excellent attention to detail
    • Must have a passion for achieving excellence in product quality and reliability 
    • Ability to multi-task continuously, handling stress when required
    • Capable of working independently and as part of a team
    • Be very organised and able to define and follow processes
    • Ability to adapt quickly with methodologies, tools, best practices, and processes within specific area of responsibility
    • Proficient in utilising quality improvement tools and techniques.
    • Be extremely detail-oriented with respect to documentation and communication
    • Excellent initiative skills to identify projects and areas within the business that need their expertise and attention

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    Software Engineer

    Purpose of the Role:

    • The Senior Software Developer will form a vital part of a team of C# Developers who are responsible for creating cutting-edge software that supports critical business processes. This candidate will report to the Software Development Team Lead.

    Duties include, but not limited to:

    Primary Duties

    • Develop cutting-edge software using the latest development tools and frameworks.
    • Unit-test all software artifacts.
    • Maintain current systems (web/other) and develop new systems (web/other) using the latest technologies.
    • Collaborate with Product Owners and Test Analysts in developing, testing and deploying systems components.
    • Research and develop new technologies.
    • Provide second/third line support to IT for software deployed into company eco system.
    • Analyse and resolve complex and high impact production issues where required.
    • Monitor systems performance and ensure all SLA’s are met.
    • Assist technical writers with technical documentation and user manuals related.

    Support to Team

    • Transfer of business and technical knowledge to the greater team.
    • Technical guidance and mentoring of developers.

    Support to Technical Lead and Software Development Manager

    • Assist in enforcing Agile and Scrum methodology in the teams.
    • Assist in code reviews.
    • Assist in coordinating Pair Programming.
    • Assist in implementation of best practices, coding standards and relevant methodologies.

    This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities. The job holder may be required to complete any other reasonable duties in order to achieve business objectives.

    Essential Criteria:

    • A minimum of 5 years’ hands-on development experience.
    • Computer Science related degree, diploma or similar qualification.
    • Experience in working with agile teams and successfully delivering agile based software projects.
    • Proven experience in working with Azure or AWS, C# - .NetCore, NodeJS, ReactJS.
    • Be prepared to work in a 24/7 environment.
    • Experience in internet technology and web development.
    • Proven experience in coding.
    • Willing to research, learn and apply new technologies and languages.
    • Knowledge of OO, development methodologies and patterns.

    Knowledge of the following :

    •  Databases: T SQL knowledge
    • Software: C#; ASP.NET, Angular or React, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, Visual Studio

    Desirable Criteria:

    • Microsoft Azure
    • MVC pattern
    • Message Queues
    • NoSQL
    • Out of Memory Caching
    • Real time evaluations
    • Source control concepts (Merging, Branching, Publishing)
    • Continuous Integration
    • Docker & GraphQL

    Person Specifications:

    • Initiative
    • Learning, Collaboration & Knowledge Management
    • Priority Setting
    • Problem Solving
    • Resilience
    • Team Orientation

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