Technical Lead - Umhlanga
We are currently looking for a Technical lead, to work on a broad range of exciting current and new projects.
As a team, we are down-to-earth yet ambitious, highly-skilled yet casual, friendly yet professional, strikingly different from each other yet bound by our common human values. Proactive people who thrive on change and are driven to improve themselves and others everyday are the kind of people that will love working with us.
We’d love for our new addition to be authentic, driven, professional and filled with purpose, with excellent leadership, written and verbal communication skills.  The ideal candidate should have a love for open source technology and the internet, a strong sense of the latest online trends, and a desire to learn, adapt and grow.
If you are chosen, you will be accountable for consistently delivering quality products and services to our clients and stakeholders, whilst ensuring the development team is delivering as efficiently as possible.

Essential Competencies

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience having managed a development team of at least 15 developers working on multiple, and fairly large scale projects
• Architecture of software solutions within a variety of technology stacks using development tools
• Strong current or recent software development experience
• Strong understanding of the software development life cycle
• Demonstrated experience working with the leadership team of a business
• Proven track record in estimating project times against deliverables with consistent accuracy
• Ability to manage the creation of project specification documents, ensuring they meet user and business requirements
• Ability to capture requirements, perform analysis and develop process improvement approaches
• Ability to readily comprehend business expectations that affect the current architecture and future strategy
• Experience in adopting systems, procedures and methodologies in implementing and driving change
• A proven ability of establishing and monitoring the acceptable performance levels of individuals, and achieving growth in their productivity
• Ability to adjust schedule to meet business needs
• Experience writing daily internal status reports demonstrating excellent planning and organisation
• Experience in producing risk assessment and mitigation analysis for applicable projects

Personal Attributes

• A professional who understands that best results are achieved through collaborating with others, and not just in working alone
• A natural-born teacher who will do what it takes to up-skill the people around you, and has an opinion on what constitutes great work
• Broadly-skilled with the ability to adapt to different tools or workflows according to the deadline or output required
• Passionate about keeping abreast of changes in your chosen area of technology
• The ability to ingest constructive criticism and work with team input while staying true to the product
• The maturity to work purposefully and steadily under pressure with all kinds of clients
• The culture of imparting knowledge to co-workers, regardless of years of experience, and to constantly acquire and adopt knowledge from others
• A strong online presence (you share your interests on social media) and innate drive to share your knowledge (active participation in the community)
• Career-focused with the motivation to forge one’s own path to success within a high-performing team
• The drive to be the best in the industry in every task you undertake
• The diligence and discipline to get things done, no matter the level or perceived cachet of the task

If you are interested or would like more information, please email a copy of your CV to ****@*****.*** or call (***)-***-**** for more information. If you have not received a response within 1 week of applying, please consider your application unsuccessful.