Engineering Manager

• Manage the transition from development to operations, ensuring a smooth rollout, deployment, and transfer to the operational and support in production.
• Drive automation of the development pipeline to visualise key metrics such as code quality, test coverage, code review, application security scans, threat analysis results and build health.
• Enablement of the data platform through a scalable base foundation that can be scaled across the cluster.
• Support and collaborate with the Architecture CoE to advance the data architecture and in some cases establish data architectural capabilities, provide input towards architectural design governance and oversight, and deliver the enabling data platform.
• Support Architects in ensuring that the team follows architectural best practice.
• Ensure quality through the adherence to organisation Quality Assurance (QA) practices, requirements, traceability, and reporting from delivery teams in accordance with organisation standards set by central QA practice guild.
• Advocate the teams needs and facilitate process to ensure team has the required resources to deliver effectively and efficiently to meet/exceed the agreed upon delivery and production SLA’s.
• Manage team delivery against prioritised work items, backlogs, and timelines, identify obstacles to delivery and take appropriate action where required.
• Contribute to crafting of departmental business plan to ensure delivery of focus areas for the year in support of IT strategy.
• Support the development and presentation of business cases in support of key business initiatives.
• Manage the entire technology lifecycle of the area of responsibility, including alignment to the strategic objectives through appropriate application portfolio practices and roadmap planning and execution.
• Apply cost effectiveness principles in planning and delivery to contribute to achievement of divisional financial targets.
• Provide input into the formalisation of the divisional budget.
• Manage allocated budget by tracking costs.
• Champion the reliable delivery of software through continuous improvement of the software development practice.
• Enable the DevSecOps philosophy by collaborating with Cyber Sec, IT operations and business operations teams to build software that is secure and maintainable.
• Schedule and coordinate solution design reviews as part of the sprint planning using agile architecture teams in accordance with Architecture guild practices.

• Degree in Computer Science/Computer Systems Engineering.
• 8 – 10 years’ experience in Software engineering.
• 8+ years .NET and C# development experience.
• 8+ years Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
• 3 – 5 years’ experience in architecting data platforms hosted on a public cloud provider (i.e. Azure or AWS) or with the latest hardware and software engineering competencies.
• 4+ years in a successful Agile environment with hands-on experience working with Agile principles and practices.
• Experience in leading an IT Engineering team.
• Experience in managing engineering teams in a Financial Services company and capital markets experience will be advantageous.
• Experience with test automation, gated commits, continuous integration (CI), and continuous deployment (CD) patterns.
• Experience in SOLID, GRAS, and Other Basic Principles of Object-Oriented Design.
• Significant experience running teams responsible for building and running micro-services, API Gateways, enterprise service bus (ESB) architectures including messaging systems, and RESTful API’s.

• R1 567 658 per annum.

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