Engineering Lead

Johannesburg, South Africa | Posted on 11/08/2026

We’re looking for an Engineering Lead who’s part conductor, part translator, and full delivery force. This isn’t apure “write code all day” gig — it’s the senior role that sits right in themiddle of business ambition, product vision, architecture intent and the engineering team that has to turn it into working reality.

If you love being the practical bridge between “what we want to build” and “what actually gets built” — and you get akick out of driving clarity, alignment and execution through the entire buildphase — this is your stage.

Come lead the build. Make the complex feelcontrolled. Make the delivery feel inevitable.

Senior delivery role requiring strong technical fluency, stakeholder integration capability and disciplined executionthrough the build phase. Although titled as an Engineering Lead, the rolecarries broader responsibility for coordinating delivery readiness across business, product, architecture and build stakeholders. Leads the build phaseof technology initiatives by aligning business, product, architecture and engineering stakeholders, ensuring technical specifications are delivery-ready,and driving the build team to execute against agreed scope, quality and timelines.

• Driveend-to-end technical delivery through the build phase, ensuring work issequenced, controlled and aligned to agreed priorities, scope and deliverymilestones.
• Coordinate Business Product Owners, Technical Product Owners, the Chief Architect and engineering teams to maintain delivery clarity, decision-making andmomentum.
• Overseethe development, review and readiness of technical specification documents and supporting build artefacts before engineering execution starts.
• Managedelivery risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and decisions across multiple work streams and stakeholder groups.
• Providegovernance, status reporting and escalation management to support quality delivery, issue resolution and timely decision-making.
• Act asthe practical integration point between technical design intent and buildexecution, ensuring the build team has sufficient clarity to deliver.
• Translate business and product intent into a coordinated technical execution planfor the build team.
• Ensure technical requirements, specifications, dependencies, interfaces and acceptance criteria are sufficiently defined before build starts.
• Directand coordinate build activities across development and supporting teams todeliver against scope, timeline and quality expectations.
• Facilitatealignment between architecture decisions, technical design, backlogpriorities and engineering execution.
• Track progress against milestones and intervene where blockers, design gaps,resourcing issues or delivery risks arise.
• Supportreadiness for testing, release and implementation by ensuring buildoutputs are complete, controlled and traceable.

• Bachelor'sdegree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field preferred
• 10+years of experience working in software development teams
• Agile delivery certification (e.g. Scrum, or equivalent) – practical applicationpreferred over theory
• Proven track record leading large, multi‑disciplinary engineering teams across complex enterprise programmes
• Strong background in modern application architectures, including:
• Cloud‑nativeand distributed systems
• API‑firstand microservices architectures
• Event‑drivenand integration‑heavy platforms
• Demonstrated leadership across the full software development lifecycle, from design andbuild through to release, Hyper‑Care, and stabilisation
• Experience collaborating closely with:
• Strongexposure to Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD pipelines, and production release governance