Engineering Lead, Systems Engineer, IT Project Manager

Sandton, South Africa | Posted on 24/04/2026

Senior delivery role requiring strong technical fluency, stakeholder integration capability anddisciplined execution through the build phase. Although titled as an Engineering Lead, the role carries broader responsibility for coordinating delivery readiness across business, product, architecture and buildstakeholders. Leads the build phase of technology initiatives by aligningbusiness, product, architecture and engineering stakeholders, ensuring technical specifications are delivery-ready, and driving the build team toexecute against agreed scope, quality and timelines.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end technical deliverythrough the build phase, ensuring work is sequenced, controlled and aligned toagreed priorities, scope and delivery milestones.
• Coordinate Business Product Owners,Technical Product Owners, the Chief Architect and engineering teams to maintaindelivery clarity, decision-making and momentum.
• Oversee the development, review andreadiness of technical specification documents and supporting build artefactsbefore engineering execution starts.
• Manage delivery risks, issues,assumptions, dependencies and decisions across multiple work streams and stakeholder groups.
• Provide governance, status reporting and escalation management to support quality delivery, issue resolution and timely decision-making.
• Act as the practical integration point between technical design intent and build execution, ensuring the build teamhas sufficient clarity to deliver.
• Translate business and product intent intoa coordinated technical execution plan for the build team.
• Ensure technical requirements,specifications, dependencies, interfaces and acceptance criteria aresufficiently defined before build starts.
• Direct and coordinate build activities across development and supporting teams to deliver against scope, timeline and quality expectations.
• Facilitate alignment between architecture decisions, technical design, backlog priorities and engineering execution.
• Track progress against milestones and intervene where blockers, design gaps, resourcing issues or delivery risksarise.
• Support readiness for testing, release andimplementation by ensuring build outputs are complete, controlled andtraceable.

• Bachelor'sdegree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field preferred
• 10+ years of experience working in software development teams
• Agile deliverycertification (e.g. Scrum, or equivalent) – practical application preferredover 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
• Demonstratedleadership across the full software development lifecycle, from design andbuild through to release, Hyper Care, and stabilisation
• Experience collaborating closely with:
• Strong exposure to Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD pipelines, and production release governance