Platform Product Leader for Enterprise Apps

Dis-Chem; Midrand; On-site; ZAR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical aid

Provident fund

Staff account

Market related salary

Job summary

Dis-Chem Pharmacies is seeking a Head of Application Platforms to own end-to-end performance, stability, and delivery of application platforms across Retail, Customer, Core, and Integration domains. The role emphasizes a platform-as-a-product mindset, ensuring reliability, security, and reuse across business units.

The ideal candidate will lead multiple Agile tribes, govern platform ownership models, and collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to meet standards while enabling speed-to-market.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, or related field
• 10+ years’ experience in application or digital technology leadership
• Proven delivery and operation of large-scale enterprise platforms

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain platform strategies and roadmaps across Retail, Customer, Core, and Integration platforms
• Ensure platforms deliver reusable capabilities rather than bespoke point solutions
• Decide and govern platform ownership models in line with enterprise design principles
• Drive simplification, standardization, and technical-debt reduction
• Accountable for outcomes delivered through platform tribes and squads
• Ensure stable, secure operation of applications, including incident, problem, and lifecycle management
• Partner with Infrastructure and Security to meet availability, performance, and resilience targets
• Coordinate with Integration & Workflow platforms to enable reliable data flow and process automation
• Work with Enterprise Architecture to ensure adherence to technology standards and pattern
• Collaborate with business product owners to define value cases, outcomes, and success metrics
• Govern vendor delivery within platform accountability frameworks
• Lead, coach, and develop Platform Tribe Leads and their teams
• Set performance expectations and conduct performance reviews
• Manage team capacity, workload allocation, and capability development
• Support recruitment, succession planning, and organizational design

Skills

Platform leadership

Agile leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Vendor governance

Cross-functional collaboration

10+ years leadership

Delivery of large-scale platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in information systems / Computer Science

Job description

Dis-Chem Pharmacies is seeking a Head of Application Platforms to own end-to-end performance, stability, and delivery of application platforms across Retail, Customer, Core, and Integration domains. The role emphasizes a platform-as-a-product mindset, ensuring reliability, security, and reuse across business units.

The ideal candidate will lead multiple Agile tribes, govern platform ownership models, and collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to meet standards while enabling speed-to-market.