Engineering Delivery Lead — End-to-End Execution

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,100,000 - 1,700,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment, Johannesburg, is seeking an Engineering Lead to drive cross-functional technical delivery and align business, product and architecture teams. This senior role anchors the build phase and ensures readiness for release, with emphasis on clarity, planning and execution.

The role requires strong technical fluency, leadership across multi-disciplinary teams and a proven track record delivering complex enterprise initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in software development teams.
• Agile delivery certification (e.g. Scrum) – practical application preferred.
• Proven track record leading large, multi-disciplinary engineering teams across complex enterprise programmes.
• Strong background in cloud-native and distributed systems, API-first and microservices architectures.
• Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines and production release governance.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end technical delivery through the build phase, ensuring work is sequenced, controlled and aligned to priorities, scope and milestones.
• Coordinate Business Product Owners, Technical Product Owners, the Chief Architect and engineering teams to maintain delivery clarity and momentum.
• Oversee the development, review and readiness of technical specification documents and artefacts before engineering execution starts.
• Manage delivery risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and decisions across multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups.
• Provide governance, status reporting and escalation management to support quality delivery and timely decisions.
• Act as the practical integration point between technical design intent and build execution, ensuring clarity to deliver.
• Translate business and product intent into a coordinated technical execution plan for the build team.
• Ensure technical requirements, interfaces and acceptance criteria are well defined before build starts.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Technical fluency

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS

Tools

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Sabenza IT & Recruitment, Johannesburg, is seeking an Engineering Lead to drive cross-functional technical delivery and align business, product and architecture teams. This senior role anchors the build phase and ensures readiness for release, with emphasis on clarity, planning and execution.

The role requires strong technical fluency, leadership across multi-disciplinary teams and a proven track record delivering complex enterprise initiatives in a fast-paced environment.