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Engineering Lead
Psybergate
South Africa · On-site Contract Lead Today
About the role
What you will be doing:
- Lead technical engagements with client stakeholders, acting as the primary interface between business and engineering teams
- Ensure architectural governance and technical standards are consistently applied across delivery teams
- Guide and oversee delivery across pods (±15 team members including developers and BAs)
- Translate business requirements into high-level and low-level technical designs
- Drive alignment between onshore and offshore (India-based) development teams
- Provide technical direction and mentorship to engineering teams
- Oversee delivery within fixed scope and tight governance frameworks
- Contribute to architecture definition, solution design, and implementation planning
- Ensure quality, scalability, and performance of solutions
- Collaborate closely with platform leads and senior stakeholders to manage risks and dependencies
- Support the rollout of a large-scale mobile banking application (iOS, Android, Huawei/Harmony OS)
- Contribute to documentation including architecture, design, and technical standards
What we are looking for:
- Relevant qualification in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- 8+ years’ experience in software engineering, with experience in a technical leadership role
- Strong experience in solution architecture, system design, and technical governance
- Proven experience leading engineering teams and managing delivery in complex environments
- Ability to engage with senior stakeholders and lead deep technical discussions
- Experience working in large-scale, enterprise delivery environments
- Understanding of Agile delivery and distributed team models
- Experience with backend technologies (Java, Spring Boot, Reactive frameworks)
- Exposure to event-driven architecture (Kafka)
- Understanding of API and integration layers (experience layer / proxy services)
- Basic understanding of mobile development (iOS/Android – Swift/Kotlin)
- Exposure to cloud-native and scalable architectures
Advantageous:
- Strong mobile development experience (iOS, Android, Huawei / Harmony OS)
- Experience in banking or financial services
- Experience working in global delivery models with offshore teams
- Exposure to GenAI or modern digital platform innovation
Please note if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.
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Skills
AWS LambdaAndroidAPIAgileCloud-nativeDockerEvent-driven architectureGenAIHuawei/Harmony OSiOSInformation TechnologyIntegrationJavaKafkaKotlinMobile developmentPostgreSQLReactive frameworksSolution architectureSpring BootSwiftSystem design
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