Technical Solutions Lead: Architecting Integrations & Data

Ioco; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Ioco in Johannesburg seeks a Technical Solutions Lead to provide both technical leadership and hands-on expertise across the digital and internal systems landscape. The role combines oversight with active contribution to development, integrations, and reporting, ensuring secure, scalable, and future-ready solutions.

You will coordinate with infrastructure, operations, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure compatibility and long-term viability, while identifying risks and driving

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a hands-on technical role (e.g. Technical Lead, Senior Developer, Solution Analyst).
• Strong hands-on experience building and supporting enterprise systems, integrations, and data solutions.
• Proven experience writing SQL queries, developing stored procedures, and working directly with data structures.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical oversight of digital products, platforms, internal systems, upgrades, and solution changes.
• Contribute hands-on to development, integrations, reporting, data analysis, platform enhancements, and technical troubleshooting where required.
• Assess solution and vendor proposals from a technical, operational, data, security, integration, and long-term sustainability perspective.
• Coordinate internal systems upgrades, platform changes, integrations, and technical initiatives where deep business input is not required, including planning for testing, readiness, implementation, documentation, and handover.
• Help external developers, vendors, and implementation partners understand andBeyond’s systems landscape, data structures, integrations, constraints, and operating requirements so they can recommend and deliver fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Work closely with Infrastructure, Systems Operations, development specialists, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure solutions are compatible, supportable, and fit for purpose.
• Identify and escal risks relating to vendor lock-in, fragmented architecture, weak integrations, poor data structures, duplicated capability, unsupported tools, security gaps, or short-term solution decisions.
• Support a unified digital operating model by encouraging standardisation, reuse, integration discipline, and cohesive solution architecture across the business.
• Provide clear recommendations on solution risks, trade-offs, dependencies, compatibility, and long-term impacts.

Skills

5+ years hands-on technical

Enterprise systems

APIs & integrations

SQL queries

Power BI/SSRS experience

System integrations

Data solutions

Stakeholder communication

Education

Certifications in IT/IS (e.g. Agile, ITIL, TOGAF)

Tools

Power BI

SSRS

SQL Server

Job description

Ioco in Johannesburg seeks a Technical Solutions Lead to provide both technical leadership and hands-on expertise across the digital and internal systems landscape. The role combines oversight with active contribution to development, integrations, and reporting, ensuring secure, scalable, and future-ready solutions.

You will coordinate with infrastructure, operations, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure compatibility and long-term viability, while identifying risks and driving