WE ARE HIRING: SENIOR TECHNICAL DELIVERY LEAD
12 Months Contract
Johannesburg-Hybrid
We are looking for an experienced Senior Technical Delivery Lead to manage the end-to-end strategy, planning, organisation, negotiation, direction, and control of IT projects, ensuring successful implementation and alignment with the business cluster strategy.
The role requires strong technical understanding, project delivery expertise, stakeholder management, and the ability to work across complex IT environments.
Key Responsibilities
Drive delivery of tasks and align with various teams and stakeholders to facilitate decisions and deliver agreed solutions.
Drive closure of architecture gaps and develop supporting positioning papers where required.
Manage and deliver innovation and business-as-usual initiatives within agreed scope, budget, and timelines.
Monitor and report on delivery progress and delays through stand-ups and operational meetings.
Prepare weekly and monthly reports and dashboards.
Take responsibility for project governance aligned to project methodologies, processes, and disciplines.
Ensure project execution across the end-to-end project life cycle.
Manage escalated project issues, non-delivery conflicts, and integration matters.
Ensure end-to-end design aligns with architecture roadmaps through regular stakeholder engagement.
Act as a liaison for integration points between supported applications and internal areas.
Manage risks and audit findings to plan.
Manage support and maintenance, application health, and stability.
Establish effective relationships with stakeholders and vendors.
Conduct regular prioritisation and planning sessions.
Ensure adherence to IT change and release governance.
Navigate and coordinate with stakeholders at all levels to close out tasks and deliver them on time.
Technical Knowledge
SQL
APIs
Technical Architecture
Banking Applications
Qualifications
Essential Qualifications – NQF Level:
Advanced Diplomas / National 1st Degrees
Professional Qualifications / Honour's Degree
Preferred Qualification:
Matric and relevant tertiary qualification
MMP or equivalent
ITSM (IT Service Management)
Experience
10–15 years' experience in an IT environment across IT disciplines.
Technical Delivery Lead or management experience for a support team.
Technical / Professional Knowledge
Business Administration and Management
Business Principles
Business Terms and Definitions
Change Management
Client Service Management
Communication Strategies
Diversity Management
Employee Training/Development
Financial Accounting Principles
Governance, Risk and Controls
Organisational Behaviour Theory
Principles of Project Management
Relevant Regulatory Knowledge
Stakeholder Management
Strategic Planning
Talent Management
Business Writing Skills
Management Information and Reporting Principles, Tools and Mechanisms
System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Role-Relevant Technologies
ITIL
IT Concepts
Business Process
Products and Services
Behavioural Competencies
Building Partnerships
Facilitating Change
Inspiring Others
Business Acumen
Driving for Results
Technical Understanding of Complex Environments
Delegation and Empowerment
Enabling the Digital Enterprise
South African business leadership has always been early adopters and significantly used information technology to improve productivity, efficiency, reach new markets and optimize supply chains. What is significant in recent years is that customer expectations have changed radically from the past. The challenge facing all South African and global organisations for that matter is:
• How can they best respond to this paradigm shift?
• How can they take advantage of the opportunity to innovate and grow through technology adoption? And,
• How can they do all this as cost effectively as possible?
This in Ovations’ opinion is the highly strategic journey of Digital Enablement including the critical intersection with Cloud Adoption as the strategic enabler. We, at Ovations, believe that digital enablement incorporates the change associated with the application of modern technology in all aspects of business and society, whereby Cloud Adoption is the way in which all business will implement and accelerate digital enablement.
Ovations has core domain expertise in process automation, content services, data & analytics and financial crime and risk prevention solutions. As Ovations, we provide guidance to our clients through an entire lifecycle of the cloud adoption process including initiatives to mitigate strategic workloads to the cloud deployment models encompassing IaaS, PaaS, FaaS and SaaS. We provide the following summary core cloud adoption services in this regard:
• Enterprise architecture and cloud adoption
• Cloud adoption architecture design
• Cloud people structures, roles and change management
• Cloud governance models and business cases
• Cloud adoption platform and public cloud selection
• Cloud data security and privacy
• Cloud migration strategies
• Cloud operational SLA and platform management
• DevSecOps design and implementations
