Senior Technical Lead at FinSense Africa

Key Responsibilities

• Assess the current state of engineering performance, DevOps maturity, platform reliability, and AI readiness, and establish improvement priorities.
• Lead the design and execution of initiatives that improve software delivery performance, quality, reliability, and developer productivity.
• Provide technical leadership and design authority across engineering, platform, DevOps, and AI enablement initiatives.
• Establish and strengthen CI/CD, testing, observability, release management, and reliability practices aligned with industry best practices.
• Define and implement governed AI enablement frameworks, including security, access controls, auditability, knowledge retrieval, and responsible AI practices.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, security, risk, compliance, operations, business stakeholders, and external partners to drive aligned execution.
• Develop and monitor engineering performance metrics and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure measurable business outcomes.
• Mentor internal teams and embed sustainable engineering standards, governance, and knowledge transfer to build long-term capability.

Requirements

Experience

• Minimum 7 years' experience in software engineering or platform engineering.
• Minimum 5 years in senior technical leadership or principal engineering roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise DevOps transformations.
• Experience improving engineering performance using DORA metrics or equivalent frameworks.
• Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience leading cloud platform modernization initiatives.
• Experience implementing observability and reliability engineering practices.
• Practical experience delivering enterprise AI solutions with governance and security controls.
• Experience working within regulated or enterprise environments is highly desirable.