Software Development Manager

Capitec Bank Ltd.; Milnerton; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Capitec Bank Ltd. in South Africa seeks a Software Development Manager to provide strategic technical direction across product and platform delivery, ensuring scalable, secure systems and resilient cloud infrastructure.

You will lead multiple engineering teams, set coding and deployment standards, and work with architects to shape solutions while maintaining hands-on depth in implementation. This role offers significant impact in a modern cloud-first environment.

Qualifications

• Strong cloud computing knowledge with AWS as enterprise platform
• Understanding of event-based architecture and distributed systems
• Ability to shape solutions and engage with architects at a senior level
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and driving delivery
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, and IaC 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, create the conditions for predictable delivery and drive continuous improvement.
• Set the standards for code deployment across pipelines, ensure system reliability and drive modern engineering and platform practices.
• Collaborate with architects to shape solutions and translate architecture into implementation decisions.
• Oversee IT governance across teams and drive technology modernization.
• Lead cloud-centric initiatives and platform engineering efforts (AWS, automation, event-driven) across the organization.
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across the business.

Skills

AWS

Event-driven

Observability

Software architecture

Leadership

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

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We're on the lookout for energetic, self-motivated individuals who share our passion for service in the banking industry. To be part of the journey, follow the steps below:

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.


• FinOps, DevOps, Security, TOGAF, SAFe and Kubernetes certifications advantageous.

Conditions of Employment

• Clear criminal and credit record

Capitec is committed to diversity, applications to this position will strictly be considered in support of our employment equity goals.

Capitec Bank is an authorised financial services provider (FSP 46669) and registered credit provider (NCRCP13). Capitec Bank Limited Reg. No: 1980/003695/06