Technology Development Lead; Mobile Engineering Manager

Technology Development Lead

We are searching for an experienced Technology Development Lead at our Grayston Drive Sandton facility.

Responsible for the programming and development ofBlu Label Groups applications and supporting software. Provides advisory support through refining designs, practices, tools and processes to ensurethe delivery of quality products to internal and external customers. Fully accountable for software quality and technical excellence. Coaching and mentoring developers, and fully accountable for defining and driving maturity of practices and standards.

• Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable, event-driven transaction processing applications and database solutions.
• Provide effort estimates for projects, sprints, and development activities.
• Develop high-quality software in line with company standards, including testing, code reviews, and technical documentation.
• Collaborate with internal teams, clients, and vendors to troubleshoot issues, enhance products, and implement improvements.
• Resolve complex technical challenges, reduce technical debt, and ensure software security, compliance, and reliability.
• Lead technical design, architecture, coding standards, and software release processes.
• Drive automation, development efficiencies, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and constructive feedback to development teams.
• Ensure solutions align with architectural standards, business requirements, and future technology roadmaps.
• Oversee escalated technical support requests and ensure timely resolution within SLA requirements.
• Analyse business and technical requirements, recommend best-fit solutions, and determine resource and delivery estimates.
• Support knowledge sharing, collaboration, innovation, and capability development across teams and the organisations.

• Through effective inspirational thought leadership, facilitate the creation of accountable, full-service teams who understand and strive to meet the needs of all stakeholders.
• Role model behavior and motivate team members in line with the core values.
• Provide support and guidance on on-the-job training, coaching and mentoring to team.
• Facilitating and assisting new joiners with onboarding and getting up to speed with deliverables as mentors.
• Communicate and maintain trust relationships with shareholders, business partners and authorities.

• Build a culture of respect and understanding across the organisation
• Recognise outcomes which resulted from effective collaboration between teams
• Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication and collaboration across the organisation
• Facilitate opportunities to engage and collaborate with external stakeholders to develop joint solutions
• Set an example through personal quality and productivity standards and ways of working with others.
• Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures. Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands.
• Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change. Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organisational and team needs

• System architecture and design
• Software engineering best practices
• Cloud technologies
• Dev Ops and automation
• Problem-solving and decision-making

• Accountability and integrity
• Collaboration and teamwork
• Adaptability and resilience
• Initiative and customer focus
• Attention to detail and time management

• Strategic planning
• Risk and compliance management
• Customer service orientation
• Planning and organization
• Managing complexity