Lead Product Engineer - Johannesburg, South Africa - Edge Executives

Description

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions leveraging C# (.NET), Sql Server, Javascript/Typescript, ReactJs, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Kafka, Git
• Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including, eg. design process
• Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven and domain driven / cross domain environment
• Quickly produce well organised, optimised and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
• Ensure designs and solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability and resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Create and maintain sophisticated DevSecOps CI/CD Pipelines (authoring and supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins for deployment to multi-site environments supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
• Use and configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application using AppDynamics, Instana and Splunk
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting, eg. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets
• Work with guilds and other technical SMEs to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing using Moq and MsTest
• Managing branching and merging in support of project delivery. Setup quality gates to ensure conformance to team best practices
• Align all application development and development process to Group Architecture, Security and Infrastructure guidelines
• Work with project and programme teams (when required) to plan and manage the development lifecycle, eg. releases, risk management, testing, integration, etc.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring and ongoing optimisation and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices, eg. scripting languages, containerisation, etc.

• Coach and mentor other engineers
• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem-solving within and across the broader team
• Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organisation
• Participate as a subject matter expert in the development and development planning of the broader product engineering team
• Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee and 3rd Party Adoption)

• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during and post deployment)
• Update / design all application documentation aligned to the organisation technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
• Create business cases and solution specifications for various governance processes, eg. CTO approvals
• Participate in incident management and DR activity applying critical thinking, problem-solving and technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
• Deliver on time and on budget (always)