Engineering And Data Lead (Pb Tech - Core Banking Modernisations)

Investec; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 900 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company in Gauteng is looking for an Engineering Lead to oversee engineering efforts within the business unit. Responsibilities include driving technical initiatives, ensuring high-quality software development, and fostering a culture of excellence. Candidates should have principle level engineering expertise and experience with modern practices such as CI/CD and cloud technologies.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scale architectures in banking.
• Ability to identify high-calibre technical candidates.
• Commitment to developing and sharing engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Oversee engineering efforts and high-quality software development.
• Drive technical initiatives and enhance engineering practices.
• Explore new technologies in line with engineering strategy.

Skills

Principle level engineering expertise

Familiarity with modern engineering practices and data store design

Experience with Continuous Delivery, CI / CD pipelines, and Azure DevOps

Knowledge of Cloud (Azure / AWS)

Container orchestration (like Kubernetes)

In-depth knowledge of Data engineering architecture

Strong technical analysis and problem-solving skills

Effective communication skills

Agile mindset

Job description

Description

The Engineering Lead will be responsible for overseeing the engineering efforts within their specific business unit, ensuring high-quality software development and fostering a culture of excellence.

This role involves driving technical initiatives, exploring new technologies, and enhancing engineering practices within the business unit in-line with the group engineering strategy.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

Technical Experience Required :

• Principle level engineering expertise
• Familiarity with modern engineering practices and data store design
• Experience with Continuous Delivery, CI / CD pipelines, and Azure DevOps
• In-depth knowledge of Cloud (Azure / AWS), containerisation, container orchestration (like Kubernetes) and streaming architectures
• Experience with Data and Data engineering architecture and best practice

Other Qualities :

• Deep technical architecture skills with experience designing scale architectures in banking in transactional and analytical domains
• Strong technical analysis, problem-solving skills, and the ability to make well-reasoned decisions
• Clear and effective communication skills, both verbal and written
• A history of delivering secure, testable, clean, and performance-oriented technology solutions
• A passion for tackling complex technical challenges
• An agile mindset with a focus on continuous improvement
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Skilled at providing constructive feedback to engineers and identifying security vulnerabilities
• Quick at diagnosing and resolving complex production issues.
• Competence in identifying high-calibre technical candidates during interviews
• Commitment to developing and sharing engineering best practices
• Ability to identify areas for improvement and drive positive change
• A broad perspective that considers both technical and business aspects

Core skills & knowledge

Regulatory Knowledge as applicable to role (compulsory)

To always act with integrity and embrace the philosophy of treating our customers fairly (compulsory)

Coaching & Assessment (compulsory for Line Managers and other Supervisors)

Additional attributes

• Participate in external (to Investec) technical forums & conferences
• Security aware development practices
• Approachable

What We Value

At Investec we seek creative, talented people with passion, energy and stamina, who collaborate unselfishly.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion when recruiting internally and externally.