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  • Posted: Mar 10, 2023
    Deadline: Not specified
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    TalentintheCloud is a Specialist Recruitment Agency to the FinTech and Payments sector across Africa. We are Headquartered in London and have representatives in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya.
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    Head of Software Engineering

    A bit about the role:

    The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing and executing the strategy to implement a greenfield in-house software engineering capability. This capability will enable the company to transition from high vendor dependency to owning the development and release process of digital applications.

    Your daily adventures include:      

    • Setting technical standards, SDLC processes, defining standard toolsets covering high-level architecture, programming languages, application servers/platforms and integration
    • Defining approaches (SOA, Microservices, Brokers, Streaming etc); programming design patterns; programming standards
    • Development tools and tooling (IDEs, build tools, dependency management, source formatting, quality enforcement)
    • Source code management, branching, releasing, git flow procedures & processes; source code security, access control
    • Building artifact management, versioning and controls, building environments & developer productivity
    • API & code documentation (written & automated generation)
    • CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes/procedures
    • Containerisation, container registries and versioning
    • Code scanning & security controls
    • Coding standards & patterns for security, access, authorisation and accounting; coding standards for exploit mitigation (SQL injection, XSS, CSRF)
    • Configuration management
    • Capacity planning, monitoring, alerting and runtime visibility
    • Team skills assessments & training recommendations
    • Agile delivery processes & controls – epics, stories, tasks & backlog management and prioritization & associated tooling
    • Production environment topology, security, scalability, resilience & deployment/rollback processes & procedures
    • Business/Product ownership, quality assurance and quality gates
    • Using data and feedback from participants and peers to drive continuous optimization of cross-functional team structures and software development processes
    • Assuring that security and accessibility continue to be primary goals in the construction of any software

    What it takes to succeed:

    • Experience with modern data technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, Snowflake), relational database systems (MySQL) and ability to work with large databases including open source (MongoDB, MariaDB, Athena etc)
    • Experience in DevOps (inc DevSecOps) methodologies and CI/CD toolsets
    • Understanding and knowledge of scaling and proven track record of scaling systems
    • Experience profiling and optimizing code on all tiers of an application
    • Experience in managing container orchestration and serverless environments, and deployment across hybrid and public cloud scenarios

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to TalentintheCloud on talentinthecloud.io to apply

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