Senior Engineering Leader - Cloud, Data & AI

e-Merge IT Recruitment; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 1,170,000 - 1,430,000; Full time

Job summary

e-Merge IT Recruitment seeks a Lead Engineer for a premier management consulting firm with a global footprint. You will lead engineering practices, steer technical decisions and ensure delivery of scalable, high-quality solutions for major financial institutions.

The role combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, will involve travel to client sites, and requires strong stakeholder management and cloud/data platform experience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in technology consulting, software delivery, cloud, data engineering, AI or related fields.
• A hands-on engineering background: software, data, cloud or platform engineer, tech lead or architect.
• Strong grasp of modern delivery practice: cloud, CI/CD, IaC, platform operations.
• Experience leading technical professionals and managing stakeholders for client delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering practice and shape technical decisions across engagements.
• Drive delivery of scalable, high-quality solutions for financial services clients.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers and clients to align on architecture and delivery.
• Mentor and manage engineering teams and enable effective stakeholder communication.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud platforms

Data engineering

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Architect / technical lead

Stakeholder management

Travel to client sites

Software engineering

Education

Engineering degree

Computer Science

Postgraduate qualification advantageous

Tools

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

AWS

Azure

Job description

e-Merge IT Recruitment seeks a Lead Engineer for a premier management consulting firm with a global footprint. You will lead engineering practices, steer technical decisions and ensure delivery of scalable, high-quality solutions for major financial institutions.

The role combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, will involve travel to client sites, and requires strong stakeholder management and cloud/data platform experience.