Johannesburg: Senior Tech Lead

Primary responsibility: Participate in new solution discovery and high level design sessions and document reviews representing both the ECW as well as the end to end solution from a more technical point of view (run time considerations, non functional aspects etc). Confirm ECW impact analysis in the high level design, often with consultation with ECW technical designer. Creation of ECW impact analysis “briefing” documents as input to formal ECW low level design process. Tracking and supporting delivery of the ECW low level design deliverable, reviewing and accepting ECW low level design deliverable. Facilitating alignment and acceptance of ECW low level design with impacted parties, typically the SOA and MAD API integration brokers. Tasking and tracking ECW system integration analyst to implement changes outlined in the low level design in the test environment (including unit testing) in preparation for integrated solution testing. Tasking and tracking defect investigation and resolution with ECW system integration analyst. Supporting ECW system integration analyst with raising CAB changes and with deployments. Typically present on solution deployment calls (about once a month). Overseeing operational (non project) forward schedule of changes (typically OS patches, DB patches) with dedicated ECW operations lead. Securing testing capacity with the squad. Collaborating with ECW project manager to align priorities and track all ECW deliveries. Ensure relevant documents are stored on network shares. Secondary responsibilities include: Driving cross-functional execution among other technical leads for Mobile and USSD channel applications, integration brokers and backend systems as well as testers, business analysts, product owner, UX designer and solution architects. Promote knowledge sharing, mentoring, and team development especially with other ECW technical leads that may have less experience. Oversee planning and delivery to ensure scalability, performance, compliance. For example yearly capacity planning and other ECW platform level improvements including annual platform version upgrades and infrastructure upgrades.