Senior Tech Lead

A 1 L; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading telecommunications company is seeking a Senior Tech Lead for a 6-month contract in Johannesburg. The role includes overseeing project execution, facilitating solution design sessions, and mentoring other technical leads. Ideal candidates have strong skills in administration, architecture, and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience in telecommunications projects at a senior leadership level.
• Ability to facilitate and drive cross-functional collaboration in projects.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and design.

Responsibilities

• Participate in new solution discovery and design sessions.
• Facilitate alignment and acceptance of design with impacted parties.
• Oversee operational schedule changes with the operations lead.

Skills

Administrative Skills

Facilities Management

Biotechnology

Creative Production

Design And Estimation

Architecture

Job description

Our client in the telecommunications sector is looking for a Senior Tech Lead on a contract duration of 6 months.

Primary Responsibility

• Participate in new solution discovery and high level design sessions and document reviews representing both the ECW as well as the end to end solution from a more technical point of view (run time considerations non functional aspects etc).
• Confirm ECW impact analysis in the high level design often with consultation with ECW technical designer.
• Creation of ECW impact analysis briefing documents as input to formal ECW low level design process.
• Tracking and supporting delivery of the ECW low level design deliverable reviewing and accepting ECW low level design deliverable.
• Facilitating alignment and acceptance of ECW low level design with impacted parties typically the SOA and MAD API integration brokers.
• Tasking and tracking ECW system integration analyst to implement changes outlined in the low level design in the test environment (including unit testing) in preparation for integrated solution testing.
• Tasking and tracking defect investigation and resolution with ECW system integration analyst.
• Supporting ECW system integration analyst with raising CAB changes and with deployments. Typically present on solution deployment calls (about once a month).
• Overseeing operational (non project) forward schedule of changes (typically OS patches DB patches) with dedicated ECW operations lead. Securing testing capacity with the squad.
• Collaborating with ECW project manager to align priorities and track all ECW deliveries.
• Ensure relevant documents are stored on network shares.

Secondary Responsibilities

• Driving cross-functional execution among other technical leads for Mobile and USSD channel applications integration brokers and backend systems as well as testers business analysts product owner UX designer and solution architects.
• Promote knowledge sharing mentoring and team development especially with other ECW technical leads that may have less experience.
• Oversee planning and delivery to ensure scalability performance compliance. For example yearly capacity planning and other ECW platform level improvements including annual platform version upgrades and infrastructure upgrades.

Required Experience : Staff IC

Key Skills

• Administrative Skills
• Facilities Management
• Biotechnology
• Creative Production
• Design And Estimation
• Architecture

Employment Type: Contract

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1