Engineering Lead II Mobile Lead Architect 138555

Job Classification

138555 Engineering Lead (Mobile Lead/ Architect)

Closing date 5 May 2025

Job Family

Information Technology

Career Stream

Application Development

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Professional

Job Purpose

To envision lead and develop fit for purpose integrated end to end technical solutions across multiple technologies for the organisation through inspirational technical leadership and visionary longterm thinking. Provide leadership across multiple initiatives guiding engineering lead practitioners to achieve product / programme alignment.

Job Responsibilities

• Analyse challenges / problems and formulate solution based on organisations Identify Boundaries architectures and constraints
• Needs to be achievable and operational must push boundaries when required and continuously push for improvements
• Take proposed solutions through relevant governance forums and
• Obtain acceptance for solutions from relevant specialists (domain or technology).
• Collaborate and communicate and obtain buyin from key stakeholders.
• Decomposition of the solution and assisting with the scheduling
• Sequencing work and identification of resourcing needs.
• Flesh out designs and contribute to functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Assist software designers with lowerlevel designs.
• Troubleshoot issues relating to technical delivery.
• Design with a holistic robust and sustainable mindset.
• Apply a product management mindset (long term thinking).
• Mentor and coach software engineering practitioners.
• Keep abreast of the technical landscape on how it fits together.
• Understand constraints and risk and make the necessary tradeoffs.
• Influence and negotiate with key stakeholders.
• Craft the endtoend solution taking into consideration: people technology systems and data.
• Future proof end to end solutions as far as possible within the organisation constraints.
• Continuously build and enhance the technical assets that are touched by the solution to ensure long term sustainability.
• Grow the engineering lead practice through contributing to the engineering lead chapter.
• Drive organisational alignment across areas of accountability
• Responsible for producing and facilitating solution architecture governance documents (Concept Design Highlevel Design)
• Define and communicate the technical and architectural vision
• Ensure that the system or solution is fit for purpose
• Play a critical role in aligning teams to a shared technical direction
• Ensure a viable endtoend technical solution which will deliver the required business value while ensuring the use and migration to target state technologies
• Responsible for leading the build of front end APIs and integrating with core backend capabilities.
• Coordinates work across the various technical teams to manage interdependencies and ensure aligned prioritisation
• Responsible for removing any technical blockers jeopardizing the progress of the journey
• Experience designing and building scalable digital experiences for mobile and web
• Experience in App Analytics and Instrumentation
• Must be able to work independently with less supervision.
• Must have lead solution designs of largescale programmes and integration across multiple technology platforms.
• Must be able to deal with challenges & issues across programme level.
• Must be able to support and lead technical stakeholders throughout the project life cycle.
• Must be able to collaborate lead in discussions with technical and business stakeholder to find appropriate solutions and opportunities for implementation

Required Technical Knowledge

• Mobile & Web Development Technologies
• Mobile Application Architecture Patterns
• Software Design Patterns
• Application Security Best Practices for Web and Mobile
• Performance Optimization
• Automated E2E Testing Frameworks and Technologies (Appium Detox Playwright Cypress etc)
• Microservices & EDAs

Essential Qualifications NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

BSc (Computer Science) BCom (Information Systems). Professional Qualification Level 6 (Look at new degree naming conventions)

Essential Certifications

Preferred Certifications

Togaf Certification ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) or equivalent

Minimum Experience Level

Min 8 Years experience in similar roles.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies