Software Development Manager

Capitec; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Capitec is seeking a Software Development Manager to provide strategic technical direction and lead multiple engineering teams through a cloud and platform transformation. You will partner with the product head, shape architecture, and drive scalable, secure software delivery.

You will oversee governance, modernisation efforts and build high-performing teams, ensuring operational reliability and strong cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of software engineering experience with 3–5 years in engineering leadership or technical management.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams, delivering cloud-native solutions (AWS), event-driven architectures, and stakeholder management.
• Proven ability to drive DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, IaC and platform practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide end-to-end technical leadership across product/platform delivery, system health, engineering standards, support and maintenance.
• Build and lead high-performing software teams, enable predictable delivery and continuous improvement.
• Set standards for code deployment across pipelines, ensure reliability and modern platform practices.
• Collaborate with architects to shape solutions and guide implementation decisions.
• Oversee IT governance across teams and drive technology modernisation.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships across the business.

Skills

AWS

Event-driven

Leadership

Delivery management

DevOps

Education

Degree in Computer Science / Information Technology / Software Engineering

Job description

We're looking for a Software Development Manager who will provide strategic technical direction, manage multiple teams, and ensure our technology platforms are resilient, scalable and secure. You'll be a strategic partner to the product head, providing end-to-end technical leadership, building high-performing teams, and driving product and platform architecture.

This is an opportunity to shape a critical technology environment, influence modern engineering practices at scale, and lead teams through a meaningful cloud and platform transformation journey.

Job description:

The Role:

We're looking for a Software Development Manager who will provide strategic technical direction, manage multiple teams, and ensure our technology platforms are resilient, scalable and secure. You'll be a strategic partner to the product head, providing end-to-end technical leadership, building high-performing teams, and driving product and platform architecture.

This is an opportunity to shape a critical technology environment, influence modern engineering practices at scale, and lead teams through a meaningful cloud and platform transformation journey.

What you’ll do:

• Provide end-to-end technical leadership across product/platform delivery, system health, engineering standards, support and maintenance.
• Build and lead high-performing software teams, create the conditions for predictable delivery and drive continuous improvement.
• Set the standards for how code is deployed across pipelines, ensure system reliability and drive modern engineering and platform practices
• Work closely with architects to shape solutions and define how those solutions need to be implemented — while architecture remains a specialist discipline, you will need the technical depth to challenge, guide and shape implementation decisions
• Oversee IT governance across the teams
• Drive technology modernisation across the team
• Through cloud computing, AWS, event-driven architecture, automation and platform engineering practices.
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across the business

What we’re looking for:

Technical skills:

Our technology modernisation requires a thorough understanding of cloud computing, AWS, event-driven architecture, automation and platform engineering practices.

Specifically, you'll need:

• Strong cloud computing knowledge — AWS is our enterprise platform, so AWS experience makes the biggest difference)
• A solid grasp of event-based architecture, the patterns used, how distributed systems work and observability
• An understanding of architecture and technical strategy — enough to shape solutions and engage with architects at a senior level

Leadership and management:

• Proven ability to lead, develop and grow multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Strong delivery management — you set the pace and remove the blockers
• Experience driving reskilling and team transformation
• Confident stakeholder management, with the ability to engage across technical and business audiences

Experience:

• You'll need at least 8 years of software engineering experience, with 3–5 of those in an engineering leadership or technical management role.
• You should have experience leading multidisciplinary teams, delivering cloud-native solutions (preferably AWS), working with event-driven architecture and managing stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience with event-driven and distributed architectures in high-volume or highly integrated environments.
• Experience improving engineering maturity through DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, Infrastructure as Code and platform practices.

Qualifications:

• Minimum: Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related Engineering discipline.
• Certifications: AWS Cloud Practitioner or equivalent cloud foundation certification.
• AWS Solutions Architect strongly preferred.
• Preferred Hoours degree or relevant postgraduate qualifications
• FinOps, DevOps, Security, TOGAF, SAFe and Kubernetes certifications advantageous.

Conditions of Employment

• Clear criminal and credit record

Profile description:

What you’ll do:

• Provide end-to-end technical leadership across product/platform delivery, system health, engineering standards, support and maintenance.
• Build and lead high-performing software teams, create the conditions for predictable delivery and drive continuous improvement.
• Set the standards for how code is deployed across pipelines, ensure system reliability and drive modern engineering and platform practices
• Work closely with architects to shape solutions and define how those solutions need to be implemented — while architecture remains a specialist discipline, you will need the technical depth to challenge, guide and shape implementation decisions
• Oversee IT governance across the teams
• Drive technology modernisation across the team
• Through cloud computing, AWS, event-driven architecture, automation and platform engineering practices.
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across the business

What we’re looking for:

Technical skills:

Our technology modernisation requires a thorough understanding of cloud computing, AWS, event-driven architecture, automation and platform engineering practices.

Specifically, you'll need:

• Strong cloud computing knowledge — AWS is our enterprise platform, so AWS experience makes the biggest difference)
• A solid grasp of event-based architecture, the patterns used, how distributed systems work and observability
• An understanding of architecture and technical strategy — enough to shape solutions and engage with architects at a senior level

Leadership and management:

• Proven ability to lead, develop and grow multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Strong delivery management — you set the pace and remove the blockers
• Experience driving reskilling and team transformation
• Confident stakeholder management, with the ability to engage across technical and business audiences

Experience:

• You'll need at least 8 years of software engineering experience, with 3–5 of those in an engineering leadership or technical management role.
• You should have experience leading multidisciplinary teams, delivering cloud-native solutions (preferably AWS), working with event-driven architecture and managing stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience with event-driven and distributed architectures in high-volume or highly integrated environments.
• Experience improving engineering maturity through DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, Infrastructure as Code and platform practices.

Qualifications:

• Minimum: Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related Engineering discipline.
• Certifications: AWS Cloud Practitioner or equivalent cloud foundation certification.
• AWS Solutions Architect strongly preferred.
• Preferred Hoours degree or relevant postgraduate qualifications
• FinOps, DevOps, Security, TOGAF, SAFe and Kubernetes certifications advantageous.

We offer:

• We're passionate people who love what we do, and we work together to make banking simple and transparent — so our clients can live better.
• We welcome diverse thinking, promote a learning environment and encourage every team member to use the available opportunities to grow and unlock their potential to be their best