Technical Development Lead

Lead a development team within Technology Services, combining hands-on development, technical guidance, and people management to drive cloud-based product delivery and support the strategic roadmap in a high-performance environment. Permanent role, Johannesburg. Reports to the Software Development Manager.

• Lead a team of 46 developers; provide mentorship, regular code reviews, and uphold architectural standards.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance web apps on GCP (Firebase / Firestore) with Angular; contribute ~5060% hands‑on coding.
• Address technical debt; champion modern technologies and sound software design principles.
• Act as a subject‑matter participant in the Architecture forum; ensure adherence to defined solution architectures.

• Plan and estimate work; drive sprints with product and QA; communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Oversee deployments, release management, and ongoing maintenance; troubleshoot complex issues.
• Ensure robust testing (unit, integration, performance) and optimize for performance, scalability, and cloud cost efficiency.

• Manage 46 permanent employees and contractors; foster a high-performance, quality-driven culture.
• Handle conflict resolution, motivation, coaching, and ownership of outcomes.
• Collaborate effectively with diverse, cross-functional, and remote teams (including where distance / language barriers exist).

• Drive platform modernization (especially cloud components) through sprint contribution, planning, and stakeholder engagement to deliver high-quality solutions.

• Tertiary technology degree strongly preferred.
• 8+ years in software development; 23 years in a leadership / mentorship role.
• Healthcare experience advantageous.
• Modern SDLC (Agile / Scrum / Kanban).

• Strong in GCP (Firebase / Firestore), Angular (v12+), HTML5 / CSS3, RESTful APIs, Git, CI / CD, and containerization (e.g., Docker).
• Broad architectural understanding (solution, business, information, and application architecture) and systems thinking.
• Familiarity with agentic AI in the SDLC is preferred now and will become a requirement.

• Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving; collaborative, adaptable, growth-oriented.
• Takes full ownership of outcomes and engages effectively across stakeholders and remote teams.

• The proposed salary for the role is R120k CTC per month, but the option remains with the client to offer any market related salary considering a candidate's qualifications, skills, and experience.