Technical System Leader

Bebeecloud Architect; Durban; On-site; ZAR 800 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Durban is seeking a Senior Architect to oversee the end-to-end system and application architecture. This role involves setting technical standards, managing a team of engineers, and ensuring cloud security and compliance with industry standards. Candidates must possess a degree in a relevant field and have strong experience in designing and scaling cloud-native systems. Excellent leadership, hands-on coding ability, and DevOps best practices understanding are critical for success in this position.

Qualifications

• Experience designing secure cloud-native systems is essential.
• Hands-on coding ability in modern back-end full-stack environments is vital.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD monitoring best practices is essential.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end system and application architecture.
• Set standards for code quality, documentation, testing, and design.
• Manage team resourcing, productivity, and performance.

Skills

Cloud-native system design

Hands-on coding ability

DevOps best practices

Infrastructure-as-Code

Strong leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

AWS

Job description

Job Description

This senior leadership role oversees the end-to-end system and application architecture, defining and evolving the technical roadmap to align with group strategy.

Key responsibilities include setting standards for code quality documentation testing and design, evaluating and selecting tools frameworks and platforms to optimize delivery.

The successful candidate will lead a team of engineers, fostering a culture of ownership collaboration and continuous improvement.

This involves managing team resourcing productivity performance providing technical coaching career development support.

In addition infrastructure security scalability cost optimization are critical aspects of this role including implementing Infrastructure-as-Code Ia C for repeatable automated provisioning ensuring robust networking IAM access control practices.

Infrastructure & Cloud (AWS) Owning AWS infrastructure architecture security scalability cost optimization is key in this role Security & Compliance (PCI DSS) E nsuring compliance with PCI DSS internal security standards is crucial in this position Requirements

Bachelor or Master's degree in Data Science Computer Science Technology related field required

Past experience designing scaling secure cloud-native systems essential hands‑on coding ability modern back‑end full‑stack environments vital strong understanding Dev Ops CI CD monitoring best practices essential