Cape Town City Centre: Development Lead (C#, ASP.NET Core, Azure) (CPT)

About the Role

Join our Digital Technology team as a Development Lead, where you’ll be responsible for driving engineering practices using AI and aligning with industry standards and business goals. As a visionary and disciplined professional, you’ll continuously seek to reinvent Engineering practices while ensuring alignment with strategic architectural direction.

Key Responsibilities

• Detailed Architecture Design, Oversight & Technical Governance
• Work with the Platform Solution Architect to provide hands-on oversight of detailed architecture and design across Engineering squads.
• Ensure alignment with strategic architectural direction while bridging the gap between high-level architecture and day-to-day Engineering decisions.
• Review and validate technical analysis outputs before development begins to ensure feasibility, alignment with standards, and accurate estimation.
• Work with Product Owners and external partners to align API capabilities with client needs and platform strategy.
• Provide technical leadership for external API integrations, ensuring secure, scalable, and well-documented interfaces.
• Engineering Enablement, Automation, Productivity & Quality at Scale
• Effectively manage Engineering impediments for Engineers.
• Continuously evaluating and managing access controls to maintain security and relevance.
• Champion Engineering best practices including CI/CD, automated testing, secure coding standards, and preventative quality tooling.
• Platform Security, Resilience & Availability
• Own the roadmap for addressing platform-wide technical debt, including vendor deprecations, mandated upgrades, and Cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
• Collaborate with InfoSec and Infrastructure teams to ensure timely remediation of risks.
• Plan and prioritize Engineering work that safeguards platform stability and compliance.

Requirements

• Qualifications: BSc Degree Level, or similar, in Mathematical, Computing or Engineering preferred.
• Experience/Skills:
• Minimum of 5 years actively working with micro-service architectures in a Full Stack capacity, including Azure technologies, programming languages such as C#, and databases languages such as T-SQL.
• Strong experience with .Net Core preferable, including C#, ASP.NET Core, etc.
• Strong experience with UI frameworks, e.g. Angular, React, Vue.
• Experience working in the Azure Cloud stack, including services like App Services, Function Apps, Redis, Service Fabric, API Manager, Azure SQL, CosmosDB, Databricks, Event Grid, Data Factory.
• Experience implementing automated Test-Driven Development approach and Continuous Testing.
• Experience working with a variety of database technology such as SQL, No SQL, file storage.

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