Sabenza IT

Engineering Lead

Sabenza IT  •  Gauteng, ZA (Onsite)  •  18 hours ago
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Job Description


Role Summary


Senior delivery role requiring strong technical fluency, stakeholder integration capability and disciplined execution through the build phase. Although titled as an Engineering Lead, the role carries broader responsibility for coordinating delivery readiness across business, product, architecture and build stakeholders. Leads the build phase of technology initiatives by aligning business, product, architecture and engineering stakeholders, ensuring technical specifications are delivery-ready, and driving the build team to execute against agreed scope, quality and timelines.


Responsibilities


  • Drive end-to-end technical delivery through the build phase, ensuring work is sequenced, controlled and aligned to agreed priorities, scope and delivery milestones.

  • Coordinate Business Product Owners, Technical Product Owners, the Chief Architect and engineering teams to maintain delivery clarity, decision-making and momentum.

  • Oversee the development, review and readiness of technical specification documents and supporting build artefacts before engineering execution starts.

  • Manage delivery risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and decisions across multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups.

  • Provide governance, status reporting and escalation management to support quality delivery, issue resolution and timely decision-making.

  • Act as the practical integration point between technical design intent and build execution, ensuring the build team has sufficient clarity to deliver.

  • Translate business and product intent into a coordinated technical execution plan for the build team.

  • Ensure technical requirements, specifications, dependencies, interfaces and acceptance criteria are sufficiently defined before build starts.

  • Direct and coordinate build activities across development and supporting teams to deliver against scope, timeline and quality expectations.

  • Facilitate alignment between architecture decisions, technical design, backlog priorities and engineering execution.

  • Track progress against milestones and intervene where blockers, design gaps, resourcing issues or delivery risks arise.

  • Support readiness for testing, release and implementation by ensuring build outputs are complete, controlled and traceable.


Requirements


  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field preferred

  • 10+ years of experience working in software development teams

  • Agile delivery certification (e.g. Scrum, or equivalent) – practical application preferred over theory

  • Proven track record leading large, multi


    disciplinary engineering teams across complex enterprise programmes

  • Strong background in modern application architectures, including:

  • Cloud


    native and distributed systems

  • API


    first and microservices architectures

  • Event


    driven and integration


    heavy platforms

  • Demonstrated leadership across the full software development lifecycle, from design and build through to release, HyperCare, and stabilisation

  • Experience collaborating closely with:

  • Strong exposure to DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, and production release governance
Sabenza IT

About Sabenza IT

Sabenza iT Recruitment is a Level 2 BBBEE company with more than 23 years of expertise in Information Technology recruitment. Our team comprises 20 recruiters dedicated to providing top-notch services in recruiting for sectors such as SAP, IT Developers, and IT Security, among others. Sabenza iT is proud to be a wholly South African-owned company.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Natal, Cape Town, Gauteng, ZA
Year Founded
2013
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