Technical Team Lead – Pepkor Vacancies

Job Overview

The Technical Team Lead is responsible for leading high-performing software development teams while ensuring technology solutions align with business strategy and product-market fit. This role combines strong technical expertise, leadership, and strategic thinking to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-quality software solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with product leadership to ensure technical decisions support and sustain product-market fit across one or more squads

• Support and enhance a complex technology platform, including third-party system integrations

• Coordinate with Technical Product Managers, Solution Architects, QA, and cross-functional teams to deliver business requirements effectively

• Proactively identify scalability, performance, and strategic challenges, communicating risks and driving adaptive solutions

• Provide clear leadership and direction during critical incidents, ensuring calm, structured resolution

• Influence and guide teams to maintain clarity, focus, and disciplined execution

• Propose, champion, and align engineering strategies across teams and disciplines

• Delegate tasks effectively to balance workloads while mentoring and developing team members

• Drive continuous improvement of systems, processes, and engineering practices

• Plan and manage individual and team capacity to ensure timely and efficient delivery of objectives

Minimum Requirements

• 6 to 10 years’ experience in software development

Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency in C# and .NET Core

• Experience building and consuming RESTful web services

• Strong knowledge of MSSQL databases

• Hands-on experience with microservices architecture and design

• Proven leadership and mentoring experience

Advantageous Experience

• Java (Java / J2EE) and Kotlin development

• Identity Server authentication

• Experience with PHP and React

• Solid understanding of cloud-native architecture

• Oracle and MySQL databases

• CI/CD pipeline implementation

• Azure DevOps

• OAuth 2.0 authentication frameworks

• Agile methodologies

Competencies and Attributes

• Ability to resolve conflict and manage team dynamics effectively

• Strategic thinker with a focus on continuous improvement

• Proactive in identifying issues, performance bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities

• Quick learner with a strong knowledge-sharing mindset

• Effective team capacity planning and management skills

• High level of accountability and ownership

• Strong attention to detail with analytical problem-solving abilities

• Excellent reporting and documentation skills

• Clear, confident, and effective communication skills