Tech Tribe Lead at Safaricom Kenya

Reporting to the Tribe Lead the role holder is the Senior IT expert leading the engineering craft, capacity management, coordination, and technology roadmap delivery of all technology related work within the Tribe. The lead provides leadership to all senior IT professionals and.  This role provides technical expertise within their business domain, including management of engineering competences needed to deliver & support business solutions efficiently.

He/ She will drive engineering practices, tooling, and craft towards best-in-class DevOps; ensure tech dependencies across squads and tribes are visible and squads own coordination of their work. They should be 100% dedicated role to lead engineering competency & practices within a Tribe, and to support the Tribe Lead in realization of business objectives (whether dual-hat or not)

Responsibilities:

• Participate in planning, definition and high-level design of solutions; explore software solution alternatives, assist Squads to identify the right technologies and ensure sound architectural decisions
• Work with CL and / or squad members to ensure support model is considered and modelled as part of the design process
• Support squads in adhering to architecture & engineering governance and control processes

Drive Engineering (DevOps) maturity

• Drive an engineering culture of continuous improvement (CI) based on data, e.g. IT Performance metrics.
• Manage cross-tribe technological interdependencies
• Support squads during release preparation and planning
• Ensure technical debt and associated impacts are visible to the tribe.

Manage expectations of all stakeholders, especially Management Exco and TL peers / equivalents

Develop people & craft.

• Determine the necessary technology competencies for Squads together with the Tribe Lead, TO and IT Chapter Leads
• Support the embedding of IT performance metrics to help squad members understand how they drive overall tribe performance
• Drive architecture, competences, and tooling to enable Cl/CD

QUALIFICATIONS

• University Degree in computer science or engineering 
• Cloud Computing Training and Certification
• Database Management Training and Certification
• DevOps Tools (Infrastructure Automation e.g Terraform, CI/CD – e.g Jenkins)
• Project Management Training
• 7 years in a Technology environment focusing in operational excellence.
• 4 years in a management position
• Leadership and coaching skills
• Knowledge of Linux and Unix Systems including Shell.
• Knowledge and use of config management systems like Chef
• Have strong programming skills
• Have experience with Nginx, HAProxy, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar technologies
• Ability to use GitLab