Technical Delivery Lead

Johannesburg, South Africa | Posted on 27/07/2026

We are building MyGK, a new customer learning and booking platform with a three-phase strategy:
Unify, Extend, Transform. MyGK will unify fragmented customer journeys and legacy booking capabilities, extend through secure integrations and multi-country delivery, and transform how customers manage their learning experience. The immediate priority is to turn a pre-MVP 0-to-1 platform into a reliable, production-ready service ans do the work. Technology carries the weight. We are in the final stages of a 0-to-1 platform build and need to accelerate delivery within weeks, not months.

The platform is being developed by a small in-house team of junior engineers in India, supported by a part-time senior engineer. There is no dedicated Product Owner: the successful contractor will take clear high-level direction from the platform sponsor, turn it into an executable delivery plan, make sound day-to-day technical decisions, and ship working increments quickly. This is not a role for someone who needs a lengthy discovery phase, a fully formed backlog, or a large delivery team around them.

It is a hands‑on technical delivery role for an experienced contractor who can get productive rapidly, raise the engineering bar through the work, and bring junior engineers with them.

You will lead the final delivery phase of MyGK: a React and Node.js customer platform for course discovery, learner administration, enrolment and integrations. You will own the path from high-level priorities to tested, deployable outcomes, working directly with the platform sponsor and a distributed engineering team. You will balance delivery leadership with hands‑on engineering. You will clarify the minimum decision needed to move forward, break work into small deliverable slices, implement the difficult parts yourself, review and unblock the team, and keep quality high without creating unnecessary process.

Rapidly assess the current codebase, environments and delivery risks, then establish a practical, prioritised plan for the next two to six weeks.

Turn sponsor direction into a lightweight, ordered backlog with clear acceptance criteria, technical approach, ownership and release sequencing.

Deliver and complete critical platform capabilities across the web application, APIs, data layer and integrations.

Lead the integration of MyGK with the existing booking platform through secure REST APIs, without coupling MyGK directly to BAPS databases or internal systems.

Complete the BAPS-to-MyGK synchronisation path, including change-tracking delta feeds, reliable watermark handling, idempotent writes and operational recovery.

Drive the learner and administrator experience to a usable, coherent release standard, including course catalogue, enrolment, learning records and access‑management workflows as prioritised.

Make release readiness visible: working automated tests, meaningful health checks and logs, deployment checks, rollback awareness and a clear list of residual risks.

Pair with, review the work of and coach junior engineers. Leave the team able to maintain and extend what is delivered, rather than dependent on the contractor.

Provide concise, frequent status updates that distinguish completed work, current risks, decisions required and the next smallest shippable outcome.

The successful contractor must be comfortable operating across this stack:

Node.js backend services, REST API design, authentication and API integration patterns.

Azure:
Container Apps, Azure SQL, Key Vault, Container Registry, API Management, Application Gateway/Front Door, Azure Monitor and managed identities.

Microsoft Entra External  / OAuth and JWT-based API security.

SQL and PostgreSQL and relational data modelling, including migration‑driven schema changes, query performance and transactional consistency.

Git Hub-based CI/CD, Docker containers, automated unit/integration testing and practical production troubleshooting.

Integration with a legacy Microsoft SQL Server/SOAP booking estate through the new…