Team Lead CXT - Sandton, South Africa - Investec

    Investec
    Investec Sandton, South Africa

    Found in: Talent ZA C2 - 1 week ago

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    Description of the role

    Investec is looking for a Team Lead who will be responsible for managing the development, maintenance, and support of information technology solutions, that are required to meet the current and future technological needs of the business. The role is primarily focused on looking after the SA IFI team.

    Description of the skill and experience required

  • Drive the architectural roadmap and application lifecycle management for the set of applications in your portfolio
  • Refine and decouple application capabilities aligned with group Technical Functional Capabilities, including roadmap for the future state of those capabilities in line with the business strategy
  • Lead, mentor, coach and grow a team of scrum masters, developers, testers, and business analysts in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
  • End to end accountability for all aspects of the application lifecycle, target architecture, solution design, build and operations of the applications in the portfolio
  • Instill a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and quality in the team
  • Ensure that the architectural roadmap aligns with the broader Investec technical strategies and ownership of the My Investments capability roadmap
  • Facilitate and align the rest of CXT leadership, business partners and stakeholders beyond on the business and technical initiatives your team is working on.
  • Responsible for the management of all vendors providing applications / services to this portfolio
  • Overall cost management of the applications and vendor commercials including the creating and maintain of budgets.
  • Responsible to ensure that capacity planning is adequately allocated.
  • Responsible for the end-to-end procurement of new off-the-shelf products into Investec where necessary
  • Responsible for the delivery and the leading of a high-performing team. Including performance management where necessary
  • Skills needed to succeed in this role:

  • A self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit
  • A natural communicator who can engage with both engineers and business partners
  • Strong stakeholder and vendor management
  • Technical experience and familiarity with web and app development and technologies such as DotNet, Kubernetes, GitLab, Microsoft Azure etc.
  • Advantageous Skills / Exposure

    Frontend and back Web development technologies and frameworks such as

  • DotNet
  • Angular
  • Kubernetes
  • GitLab,
  • Dynatrace
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Investec Culture

    At Investec we look for dynamic, energetic people filled with tenacity, integrity and out of the ordinary thinking.

    We value individuals who in turn value our that is, a can-do attitude while challenging convention.

    Diversity, competency, and flexible leadership are respected in pursuit of the growth of our business.

    We are committed to diversity and inclusion when recruiting internally and externally.