752 Technical Delivery jobs in South Africa

Responsible for leading business projects from initiation to closure

Manage project scope, budgets, risks and issues while maintaining high quality delivery standards

Collaborate with stakeholders across the business

Drive business readiness and change

Minimum Requirements

Bachelor's Degree

Project Management Certification

Minimum 5 Years Project Management experience

Proven track in driving Agile methodologies

Between 5 - 7 Years

The suitable candidate's main responsibilities and duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

Project Planning & Strategy

1. Develop detailed project plans, timelines, and milestones for all national technical initiatives.
2. Align project objectives with organizational strategy and stakeholder requirements.
3. Identify project dependencies, risks, and mitigation measures.

Project Execution & Delivery

1. Oversee the technical execution of projects across all regions.
2. Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams including engineering, IT, and operations.
3. Ensure projects are delivered within approved budgets, timelines, and quality standards.

Technical Oversight

1. Provide technical guidance and decision-making support throughout the project lifecycle.
2. Ensure adherence to engineering standards, codes, and safety regulations.
3. Conduct regular technical reviews, quality checks, and audits.

Stakeholder & Communication Management

1. Act as the primary point of contact for all national-level technical project matters.
2. Maintain clear, timely communication between internal teams, external vendors, and stakeholders.
3. Prepare and deliver progress reports, dashboards, and executive summaries.

Risk, Compliance & Governance

1. Identify potential risks and develop proactive mitigation strategies.
2. Ensure compliance with national regulations, health and safety policies, and industry best practices.
3. Maintain accurate project documentation for governance and audit purposes.

Budget & Resource Management

1. Develop and manage project budgets, tracking expenditures against forecasts.
2. Allocate resources effectively across regional teams.
3. Approve procurement and vendor contracts in line with project needs.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

1. On-time project delivery percentage.
2. Budget adherence rate.
3. Technical quality and compliance score.
4. Stakeholder satisfaction rating.
5. Number of critical risks successfully mitigated.

Preferred qualifications/attributes/skills:

1. Grade 12 certificate.
2. Tertiary qualification preferable.
3. Valid driver's license and ability to travel as needed.
4. Strong leadership and team coordination skills.
5. Excellent technical knowledge in relevant engineering/IT domains.
6. Advanced project management expertise (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2).
7. Exceptional communication and negotiation abilities.
8. Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
9. Clear criminal record

• Develop and manage the project, communication, resource plans and processes.
• Analyze all management and technical processes to ensure they’re delivered as expected.
• Meet regularly with project stakeholders and define project goals and objectives.
• Lead budget and resource allocation through all project phases
• Generate regular reports to update stakeholders and manage projects.
• Establish and train teams on processes and strategies.
• Oversee day-to-day technical operations, including assignments and personnel review.
• Define roles and responsibilities of the team and determine clear deliverables.
• Research and evaluate new hardware and software technology and help make decisions on the cost-benefit analysis of new purchases.
• Update and maintain hardware and software systems as needed.
• Strong leadership qualities and ability to motivate a wide variety of teams associated with the project.
• Clear communication skills to guide project teams and coordinate with the management.
• Being able to solve problems.
• Having analytical skills
• Knowledge of new and established software systems and the ability to train others on them.
• Organizational and time management skills to keep teams and projects on schedule.

Engineering Team Lead - Remote in South Africa, Full-Time Contract
Lead a cross-functional engineering team to drive technical excellence, mentor developers, and deliver scalable software solutions. Oversee agile project execution, full-stack development, and DevOps practices, while fostering collaboration and professional growth in a balanced, innovative environment.

Requirements

• Leadership experience managing teams and complex projects using agile methodologies
• Expertise in .NET for full-stack development, API integration, testing, debugging, and DevOps (CI/CD, containerisation, cloud deployment)
• Proficiency with cloud services (AWS) and microservices architecture
• Agile/Scrum certification and project management tool experience

Preferred

• Experience in recruitment and mentoring
• Knowledge of emerging technologies and industry trends
• Background in stakeholder communication and technical strategy

This role is with a leading technology company specialising in innovative software solutions and trusted by global organisations for scalable tech excellence.

Our client based in Midrand is seeking the expertise of a Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Oversee all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including planning, organizing, monitoring, and delivery.
• Manage both the development of new strategic applications and the maintenance of existing systems.
• Facilitate regular discussions between business stakeholders and project teams to align on priorities and reach consensus.
• Serve as the technical owner for a portfolio of applications, ensuring their ongoing alignment with business needs.
• Maintain strong working relationships with business units to ensure technical solutions support broader business objectives.
• Lead and coordinate projects or programs within the application area of responsibility.
• Ensure applications evolve to meet changing client or business requirements over time.
• Develop or improve operational processes to support application performance and service delivery.
• Manage vendor relationships, including service delivery and commercial agreements.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and performance management for direct reports, including skill development and goal setting.
• Support the development of IT and business strategies.
• Promote continuous improvement in processes and operational practices within the team.
• Ensure security considerations are embedded in all technical solutions and operations.
• Oversee audit, risk, and compliance activities to meet internal and external regulatory requirements.

Minimum requirements:

B. Com Informatics/B. Engineering/ B.Sc.

Agile or equivalent contemporary development methodology certification

ITIL or equivalent certification

Demonstrated experience in managing scrum team

Proven experience as a Full Stack React Native Developer or similar role.

• Experience developing microservice based desktop and mobile applications.

• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML,

jQuery)

• Knowledge of multiple JavaScript frameworks with below as mandatory:

1. React Native

And below as good to have:

1. Angular

2. React JS

• Well versed with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX

design

• Excellent communication Skills

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, design and support infrastructure solutions with cloud managed service team help for solution implementation. This includes designing the cloud infrastructure and designing the security architecture e.g. data centers, AWS, Azure
• Translate client/product requirements into solutions, and confident with an ability to handle pressure in critical situations by always ensuring that client requirements are met i.e. solution design, POC verification, and traditional IT cloud solution design for public cloud projects
• Assist in project delivery from a perspective of architecting, designing and delivering capabilities to the existing environment from infrastructure through to systems and application
• Provide various technical support and advice especially on OS level.
• Support implementation of the cloud solutions for the various applications and help define operational procedures if needed for that application post go live, for the cloud operators
• Support and lead bids, presentations and PoC
• Ensure the efficient development of digital products in the portfolio
• Build strong and collaborative relationships with product, and business partners among others to ensure deep understanding of various systems and integrations
• Staying updated, researching, reviewing, and making recommendations on Software applications or innovations from a perspective of design, integration, and technical fit with other systems
• Translates functional requirements into the architecture for that solution and describing it through architecture and design
• Call out risks and issues appropriately and proactively to resolve blockers and ensure timely delivery of agreed business outcomes.
• Select, review, and efficiently handle external agencies and suppliers as required, including via blended internal/external delivery models
• Collaborate with digital partners on digital products roadmap
• To ensure Cybersecurity is a vital aspect considered in all stages of design

Required Qualifications:

• Good bachelor's degree, ideally in a relevant subject such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering and relevant Technology degrees
• Strong Software/Application/Platform and Cybersecurity understanding
• Have a strong acumen to fit portfolio/solutions to customer problems
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build positive relationships across diverse groups, translating technical concepts for business audiences, and business concepts for technical audiences
• Strong understanding of SDK, API and industry standards communication protocol.
• Keen interest in emerging technologies to support and improve consumer experience at interview and application
• Experience of B2B2C digital product development, including full product lifecycle, and development of multiple high-usage, high-profile digital products
• Detailed practical understanding of digital development technologies and subject areas e.g. UX, business analysis, UI design, architecture, testing, technology infrastructure
• Professional certifications in AWS and/or Azure Certified Solution Architect will be added advantage
• Experience in Smart building design and technologies will be added advantage
• Vertical exposure in Insurance will be added advantage
• Strong reading, writing and presentation skills in English is important
• Experience in Financial/Insurances industry is preferred.

We Want You
Our Platform Teams are driving the transformation of BETSoftware's core system – Leading innovation across integrated services and web-based products that power our global scale. As a
Technical Lead
, you won't just guide code – you'll lead architecture decisions, drive engineering excellence and mentor a Team of skills developers using technologies like C
#, .Net Core, Kafka, React, Docker and SQL
. You'll be the technical heartbeat of platforms that demand resilience, performance and rapid revolution. Apply today and be part of building something exceptional with the
Durban Team.
You Bring

• Minimum of 7 years experience within a development environment;
• 3- 6 years' SQL experience;
• 5 -8 years' C# experience;
• 5 -8 years' .NET core experience;
• 5 -8 years' RESTful API experience.

Nice To Have

• 1- 4 years' experience in document stores such as Couchbase / Mongo;
• 1- 4 years' experience in Message Brokers such as RabbitMQ / Kafka / Red Panda.

What You'll Do
Technical Leadership:

• Provide technical leadership to the team through collaboration sessions and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Engage regularly with software architects in order to ensure the development within the team is according to architectural guidelines.
• Work with other developers, designers/analysts, and architects to make sure that the solutions meet application requirements and performance goals.
• Ensure checked-in code is reviewed to ensure standards are met and the code base is sound.
• Ensure that all technical solutions that are rolled out consider compatibility with other environments and dependencies; have a high usability factor; are reliable to reduce downtime and perform at maximum efficiency during peak periods of usage; consider security at its highest level (third-party attacks; data protection etc).
• Drive the adoption of processes within the team which consider and meet the expectations of technical throughput rates and responses; processing times; effective resource utilization during operation and where the system or solution ensures maximum operational capacity requirements are met.

Quality Of Software Implementation

• Ensure rigorous testing of any solution before deployment and create standards and processes within the team to align with these.
• Ensure the delivery of a complete and technically appropriate solution which covers all the agreed specified tasks and user objectives and has been tested thoroughly.
• Ensure relevant documentation is provided to support teams to reduce the development support load.
• Where possible work to develop and implement a quality mechanism for the solution to analyse its own faults and provide reports prior to a critical failure.
• Develop the solution that supports modification for future developers, thereby reducing the number of defects or negatively affecting system quality.

Initiative And Innovation

• Implement improved processes that have a positive effect on the team's performance and company's bottom line.
• Technical problems and opportunities are anticipated and dealt with immediately considering any technical dependencies.
• Take an active involvement in problem resolution and where necessary works after hours to ensure that problems are resolved.
• Shows foresight to prevent errors or delays in projects.
• Demonstrate initiative by understanding, acquiring and implementing new knowledge and skills both within the team and to the wider group.
• Incorporates the new abilities into the day to day operational activities to improve the performance of products and systems.
• Ensure techniques, technologies, tools and processes used are in line with industry best practices.

Knowledge Share

• Identify team members requiring a piece of specific knowledge, skill or understanding and seek ways to impart or upskill the team members through coaching and mentorship.
• Verify the knowledge has been imparted successfully and if not, take steps to rectify gaps in the transfer of the knowledge.

Living The Spirit

• Actively drives a culture of collaboration and open communication within the team.
• Actively promotes authenticity and drives the spirit of diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging within the team.
• Actively drives a culture of versatility and adaptability by modelling and encouraging team members to support each other not only within the department, but within the business as a whole.
• Actively become a change agent and drive continuous learning within the team thus ensuring that the team approaches all tasks or challenges with enthusiasm and proactivity.

The Company We Keep
At BET Software, we don't just recruit talent, we cultivate it. Our learning and development programmes, our various opportunities for growth and our well-deserved incentives are what keep our All-Star Team the best amongst the rest.

Please note that only candidates who meet the stipulated minimum requirements will be considered. If you have not been contacted within 30 days, kindly find your application to be unsuccessful.