Technical Lead

Travelbyinvestec; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Investec is seeking a Tech Lead in Corporate Banking Digital to provide technical leadership across multiple squads. You will drive modern software delivery, strengthen developer experience, and mentor engineers while ensuring alignment with business outcomes.

Role focuses on end-to-end digital client experiences, collaboration with architects and product owners, and maintaining high security and performance standards across front-end, back-end, and integration layers.

Qualifications

• Proven engineering expertise with modern practices and data store design.
• Experience with Continuous Delivery and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong grounding in at least one modern stack (C#, React, Angular).
• Nice to have: Azure, containerisation, Kubernetes.
• Proficiency using AI-enabled productivity tools like Copilot.

Responsibilities

• Drive Modern Software Delivery Practices across squads and ensure standards.
• Elevate Developer Experience and Efficiency by refining processes and tooling.
• Foster a Learning Culture and mentor talent within the division.
• Own Business Outcomes Through Technology by aligning with group objectives.
• Promote Security, Risk Management, and Compliance across delivery life cycle.
• Drive Platform Performance and Operational Excellence for scalable systems.
• Represent and Amplify Engineering externally through open-source or talks.
• Collaborate to Scale Impact with stakeholders and other tech leads.
• Demonstrate Continuous Improvement by refining processes and metrics.
• Own and Track Progress with the Group Engineering Lead to milestones.
• Embody the Leadership Philosophy: Build people, Collaborate boldly, Own outcomes, Amplify influence.

Skills

Engineering expertise

CI/CD

Azure

Frontend/Backend stack

AI tools

Communication

Tools

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

Copilot

Job description

Description

The CBD team is dedicated to enhancing the digital client experience for our corporate clients. We leverage our expertise in foreign exchange, deposits, and transactional banking to develop and manage innovative solutions that meet the unique needs of private companies. Our focus is on delivering seamless, efficient, and tailored services that empower our clients to thrive in a competitive landscape.

The Tech Lead operates across multiple squads within Corporate Banking Digital, providing technical leadership that ensures consistency, quality, and alignment of engineering practices across the business unit. This role is responsible for overseeing engineering efforts across the team, driving technical initiatives, exploring new technologies, and fostering a culture of excellence.

In the context of a channel-focused engineering environment, the role ensures cohesive, end-to-end solutions across front-end user experiences, backend services, and integration layers, with a strong focus on delivering performant, reliable, and seamless client-facing digital experiences. The role also supports alignment between front-end and backend engineering approaches to enable scalable and maintainable solutions.

The role also focuses on enhancing engineering practices in line with the Group Engineering strategy, ensuring teams are continuously improving and delivering high-quality, resilient solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive Modern Software Delivery Practices
  • Drive and embed up-to-date engineering methods, tools, and mindsets across the team and, where relevant, across the division.
  • Establish non-negotiable engineering standards that align with the group's strategic objectives.
  • Ensure alignment and consistency of engineering practices across squads, reducing duplication and increasing reuse of proven solutions.
• Elevate Developer Experience and Efficiency
  • Continuously refine processes and environments to help teams deliver high-quality software faster.
  • Identify and remove impediments that slow down or hinder software delivery teams.
  • Promote shared tooling, frameworks, and practices that improve developer experience across squads.
• Foster a Learning Culture and Mentor Talent
  • Provide guidance, coaching, and technical leadership to engineers within the division.
  • Encourage knowledge sharing within and across business units, ensuring best practices circulate freely.
• Own Business Outcomes Through Technology
  • Align engineering efforts with business objectives so that technical innovation has a clear, measurable impact.
  • Collaborate with Heads of, Group Engineering Leads, architects, GRC, InfoSec, analysts, product owners, and other stakeholders to ensure group-wide cohesion.
  • Work with the team and architects to design physical architecture for the area's Technical Platforms.
  • Translate Group Engineering strategy and objectives into actionable engineering plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes, and track progress against these.
• Promote Security, Risk Management, and Compliance
  • Integrate security and risk awareness into all stages of software delivery.
  • Ensure teams follow robust governance practices and meet regulatory requirements.
• Drive Platform Performance and Operational Excellence
  • Ensure systems are designed and operated with strong performance, scalability, and reliability characteristics.
  • Promote practices that improve observability, resilience, and operational readiness across platforms.
  • Support teams in identifying and addressing systemic risks, performance bottlenecks, and operational inefficiencies.
• Represent and Amplify Engineering @ Investec Externally
  • Encourage and drive open-source contributions where appropriate, showcasing the group's technical excellence.
  • Support teams (and yourself) in writing about (e.g. blogging) or speaking at conferences and sharing experiences, elevating both Investec's brand and the individual engineers' profiles.
• Collaborate to Scale Impact
  • Build effective relationships with other tech leads, engineering leads, architects, product owners, and business leaders to coordinate efforts.
  • Leverage the “One Investec” ideal to unify standards and approaches, reducing duplication of effort.
• Demonstrate Continuous Improvement
  • Continuously assess and refine engineering processes, tools, and metrics.
  • Champion a culture where experimentation, feedback loops, and iterative enhancements are the norm.
• Own and Track Progress
  • Work with Group Engineering Lead to translate group engineering goals into actionable milestones.
  • Regularly review team performance and make adjustments to keep progress on track.
• Embody the Leadership Philosophy
  • “Build people first”: focus on developing talent and fostering a growth mindset.
  • “Collaborate boldly”: break silos, share knowledge, and take on big challenges together.
  • “Own outcomes”: ensure that technical activities map directly to business value.
  • “Amplify influence”: go beyond internal duties to contribute to the broader technical community.

Experience Required

• Technical Experience Required:
  • Proven engineering expertise
  • Familiarity with modern engineering practices and data store design[MT1.1][RR1.2]
  • Experience with Continuous Delivery, CI/CD pipelines, Azure, and Azure DevOps
  • Strong grounding in at least one modern engineering stack (e.g. C#, React, Angular
  • Nice to have: Working knowledge of Azure, containerisation, and container orchestration (like Kubernetes)
  • Proficiency in using AI-enabled productivity tools, such as Copilot, to improve efficiency, generate insight and support decision-making. Applies critical thinking and sound judgement when interpreting outputs, remains accountable for the quality and accuracy of their work
• Other Qualities:
  • Strong technical analysis, problem-solving skills, and the ability to make well-reasoned decisions
  • Clear and effective communication skills, both verbal and written
  • A history of delivering secure, testable, clean, and performance-oriented code
  • A passion for tackling complex technical challenges
  • An agile mindset with a focus on continuous improvement
  • Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Skilled at providing constructive feedback to engineers and identifying security vulnerabilities
  • Quick at diagnosing and resolving complex production issues.
  • Commitment to developing and sharing engineering best practices
  • Ability to identify areas for improvement and drive positive change
  • A broad perspective that considers both technical and business aspects

Core Skills & Knowledge

• Regulatory knowledge as applicable to the role.
• Always act with integrity and embrace the philosophy of treating customers fairly.

Additional Attributes

• Actively contributes to the wider engineering community through knowledge sharing, including conferences, internal forums, blogging, technical writing or open-source contributions.
• Experience modernising legacy or on-prem systems into cloud-native architectures, ideally within Azure environments, including replatforming, decomposition or migration strategies.
• Security-aware development practices.
• Approachable, collaborative and able to build trusted relationships across teams.
• Competence in identifying high-calibre technical candidates during interviews.

What We Value

At Investec we seek creative, talented people with passion, energy and stamina, who collaborate unselfishly.