Engineering Lead at Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

The Role

Ovations is looking for an Engineering Lead with Agile experience.

• Responsibilities include shaping, implementing and leading the delivery of strategic solutions ensuring that the customer stays on the leading edge of technology.
• Generate innovative approaches and solutions to complex issues.
• Design solutions that require creative investigations of alternative architectural solutions.
• Design architecture using new technologies in consultation with the pattern approval by Enterprise Architecture.
• Collaborate with the Architecture team to identify the right technologies to be used in the applications.
• Contribute across the technology stack, from database and DevOps infrastructure that supports continuous deployment.
• Demonstrate leadership in product quality, technical excellence and engineering practices.
• Provide guidance in Agile engineering practices and various software and web development technologies to rapidly develop creative and efficient solutions that enhance client’s customer, business partners and employee experience.
• Follow the role-model best practice engineering processes and Agile behaviour.
• Encourage team members to craft clear user stories, design tests for prototypes and solutions, and continuously deliver product enhancements.
• Liaise with other teams within and outside client digital unit to identify common deliverables and dependencies.
• Collaborate with various technical and architecture teams across the enterprise.
• Influence peers and technical staff within the team and collaborate with internal customers and work teams across departments.
• Collaborate closely with product owners and team members to identify and socialise product and delivery risks.
• Work closely with the technical lead/infrastructure teams from the organisation to ensure solution complies with organisational standards and policies.
• Balance strategic vision and strategy with the team to enable the execution of scalable and sophisticated solutions to solve common business needs.
• Act as the principal designer for the products.
• Design Architecture diagrams that will help the team and integration partners to understand the solution and vision.
• Adhere to the relevant Governance processes.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to propose changes to Principles, Standards and Reference Architectures 
• Contribute to the development of Detailed Business Cases in conjunction with Business and IT Solution and Service Providers.