298 Technology Lead jobs in South Africa

We are not your average tech company. We're the rebels building the next-gen platform Think bleeding-edge tech, real-world impact, and a team that codes like jazz musicians: loose structure, killer solos, always in sync.

You eat legacy code for breakfast, architect scalable systems for lunch, and dream in APIs. You're a builder, a leader, a strategist, and maybe even a bit of a mad scientist . You know how to inspire a team without ever saying 'synergy.'

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
• Five-10 years of experience in a technical leadership role
• Strong development background in Java, Spring Boot, and microservices, with solid object-oriented
• Programming (OOP) skills. Familiarity with relational databases (e.g., MySQL or Oracle) is advantageous.
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks, cloud-based deployments, containerisation, and up to date
• Architectural and DevOps patterns (e.g., API gateways, integration layers, and secure authentication mechanisms)
• Experience with SDLC management, technical governance, and CI/CD best practices
• Experience managing vendor and partner relationships in technical delivery
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices, agile methodologies, and version control systems

Responsibilities:

• Define end-to-end solution architecture in line with business needs, current
• capabilities, and long-term evolution
• Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and technically feasible.
• Translate product requirements into technical implementation plans and
• collaborate on effort estimation.
• Apply up-to-date architecture and integration patterns, leveraging modern
• frameworks where appropriate

Reference number for this position is GZ60736 which is a permanent position based in Johannesburg offering a cost to company salary of R1.6m per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on or call him on to discuss this and other opportunities.

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We are not your average tech company. We''re the rebels building the next-gen platform Think bleeding-edge tech, real-world impact, and a team that codes like jazz musicians: loose structure, killer solos, always in sync.

You eat legacy code for breakfast, architect scalable systems for lunch, and dream in APIs. You''re a builder, a leader, a strategist, and maybe even a bit of a mad scientist . You know how to inspire a team without ever saying "synergy."

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Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
• 5-10 years of experience in a technical leadership role
• Strong development background in Java, Spring Boot, and microservices, with solid object-oriented
• Programming (OOP) skills. Familiarity with relational databases (e.g., MySQL or Oracle) is advantageous.
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks, cloud-based deployments, containerization, and up to date
• Architectural and DevOps patterns (e.g., API gateways, integration layers, and secure authentication mechanisms)
• Experience with SDLC management, technical governance, and CI/CD best practices
• Experience managing vendor and partner relationships in technical delivery
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices, agile methodologies, and version control systems

Responsibilities:

• Define end-to-end solution architecture in line with business needs, current
• capabilities, and long-term evolution
• Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and technically feasible.
• Translate product requirements into technical implementation plans and
• collaborate on effort estimation.
• Apply up-to-date architecture and integration patterns, leveraging modern
• frameworks where appropriate

Reference Number for this position is GZ60736 which is a permanent position based in Johannesburg offering a cost to company salary of R1.6m per annum

The Technology Operations Lead is responsible for ensuring the consistent, secure, and efficient delivery of IT services across the organisation. This role combines deep technical knowledge with a hands-on approach to managing day-to-day service operations, IT infrastructure, and vendor performance.

Reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), the role is central to maintaining high-quality support, operational uptime, and adherence to IT governance standards. The Technology Operations Lead works closely with internal teams, external service providers, and business stakeholders to ensure that systems and services perform reliably, securely, and in line with business expectations.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage all IT-related infrastructure and service delivery processes
• Oversee the daily delivery of IT services to ensure service quality, uptime, and responsiveness
• Act as the operational lead for IT service desks and user support teams
• Ensure adherence to ITSM practices, with processes documented and followed across providers and internal teams
• Manage and track IT assets, licenses, and support agreements
• Implement and maintain service-level agreements (SLAs) with internal users and vendors
• Serve as a key point of escalation for IT service issues and incidents
• Drive routine patching, monitoring, backup, and maintenance cycles
• Coordinate with external vendors for infrastructure services, support, and procurement
• Support ISO27001 compliance activities and ensure security practices are followed
• Monitor service delivery metrics and generate regular performance reports for review with the CTO
• Assist in the roll-out of new systems, tools, and operational improvements

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of experience in IT operations or infrastructure support
li>Solid technical experience across networking, servers, systems, backups, and endpoint management
• Experience working with managed service providers (MSPs) or in hybrid in-house/vendor environments
• Strong understanding of service management frameworks (e.g., ITIL)
• Prior responsibility for incident escalation, vendor management, and service desk performance 

WORKING HOURS

• Monday to Friday
• 08:30 – 17:00 (flexible hours)
li>Core hours: 09:00 – 15:00

REMUNERATION PACKAGE

• Basic Salary: Market-related
• Medical Insurance
• YouAssist (Emergency response, trauma, home assist)
• Internal LMS (online training & development opportunities) 

APPLICATION PROCESS

Due to high application volumes, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you don’t hear from us within two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful. Your CV will be kept on file for future opportunities.

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Make an impact with NTT DATA

Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it’s a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.

Make an impact with NTT DATA

Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it’s a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.

Your day at NTT DATA

The Global Compensation Technology & Enablement Lead will design, optimize, and deliver the tools and technology that power our rewards programs and processes.

In this role, you’ll ensure seamless execution of our compensation cycles, and enhancing the employee and manager experience through intuitive, efficient, and future-ready solutions. You’ll be constantly exploring opportunities to simplify and streamline processes using technology, automation, and AI, ensuring our systems and data infrastructure can scale with the business.

You’ll have the opportunity to use technology to amplify impact, and you will play a key role in shaping how our newly unified global company delivers compensation with purpose, precision, and ease.

What You'll Be Doing

Key Responsibilities:

• Partners with HRIS to define the strategy, design, and management of the technology, tools, and systems that support global Total Rewards programs and capabilities (e.g., HRIS compensation modules, data dashboards, predictive analytics, process automation, automated audits, etc).
• Partner with the Global Compensation team and across the Total Rewards COE to ensure systems effectively enable processes like, but not limited to, salary planning, benchmarking, market analysis, pay governance, and job architecture.
• Continuously seek opportunities to enhance efficiency and streamline processes through automation, self-service capabilities, AI, and emerging technologies.
• Drive system integration and alignment across global regions to support a consistent, scalable, and intuitive compensation experience.
• Partner with HRIS, IT, Finance, and regional Total Rewards teams to ensure systems are optimized for data integrity, user experience, and business insight.
• Own the roadmap for compensation tools and systems enhancements and upgrades, including vendor evaluations, implementation, and ongoing support.
• Develop and maintain high-quality documentation, tools, templates, and training to support effective system use and adoption across the company.
• Use analytics and insights to identify pain points and opportunities across the compensation lifecycle and recommend data-driven improvements.
• Ensure alignment with security, privacy, and compliance standards globally.
  
  

• 7+ years of experience in HR technology, compensation operations, or Total Rewards systems in large, global organizations.
• Proven experience with HCM and compensation planning systems.
• Strong understanding of compensation processes and how technology can enable and enhance them.
• A track record of leveraging automation, AI, and process design to improve efficiency and user experience.
• Experience managing global projects and navigating complex, matrixed environments.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and project management skills.
• Passion for innovation, problem-solving, and creating user-centered experiences.
• A global mindset and ability to balance enterprise needs with local nuances.
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Human Resources
• Industries IT Services and IT Consulting

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Job Description & Summary

Growing as a strategic advisor, you leverage your influence, expertise, and network to deliver quality results. You motivate and coach others, coming together to solve complex problems. As you increase in autonomy, you apply sound judgment, recognising when to take action and when to escalate. You are expected to solve through complexity, ask thoughtful questions, and clearly communicate how things fit together. Your ability to develop and sustain high performing, diverse, and inclusive teams, and your commitment to excellence, contributes to the success of our Firm.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Craft and convey clear, impactful and engaging messages that tell a holistic story.
• Apply systems thinking to identify underlying problems and/or opportunities.
• Validate outcomes with clients, share alternative perspectives, and act on client feedback.
• Direct the team through complexity, demonstrating composure through ambiguous, challenging and uncertain situations.
• Deepen and evolve your expertise with a focus on staying relevant.
• Initiate open and honest coaching conversations at all levels.
• Make difficult decisions and take action to resolve issues hindering team effectiveness.
• Model and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Responsibilities

• Day to day operational management of the legal tech team of professionals

• Mentoring and coaching of the team

• Ensuring high utilization of resources

• Building of relationship in the network (SA and UK) in the new law / legal tech LoS

• Fulfilling resource demand received from the SA and UK

• Driving and stimulating resource demand

• Performance management of the team

• Ensuring the right structures in place for optimum productivity

• Developing an inclusive culture and diversity

• Building strong alignment with the Alliances and Icertis

Experience

• At least 10 years of experience in managing and running a legal tech team (or similar) required;

• A good understanding of the Icertis platform;

• Experience in a account management / client facing role;

• Business development

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Canonical Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

As a pioneer global remote-first tech company with a product that inspires people globally, we attract a huge number of applicants to our organisation. We have created a hiring process that is totally unique empowering our business based Hiring Leadership team to lead talent selection. Our Talent Science team ensures that our processes are effective and that the business is able to hire high performing talent. This is an exceptional opportunity to join a team that is changing the way an organisation hires connecting performance outcomes to hiring.

Our Talent Science team has a mission to ensure that we follow objective, scientifically rigorous and efficient processes to select the very best new colleagues regardless of location, culture or background. We work closely with our key stakeholders to ensure that decisions are being made in the right way and that our hiring model supports the section of world class talent.

Our team works closely with the business to ensure they are selecting talent in a precise way. We develop best practice whilst offering an expert viewpoint on talent assessments. We are not recruiters; it's about the science of talent and performance, raising awareness and offering deep analytical insights across the business to enable them to select the best talent available from our global talent pool.

We have a brand new opportunity for an experienced Tech focused in-house search consultant to teach our senior executives how to source talent for their senior leadership roles. Your key skills will be:

• Professional experience of identifying and approaching senior leadership talent from either a professional search firm or from an in-house search function, working within the Technology industry.
• Experience of training senior stakeholders the art of identifying and approaching prospective talent.
• Excellent knowledge of tools used to identify future talent including market mapping.
• Strong grasp of using behavioural interviewing techniques (competency based and psychometric assessments).
• Strong analytical problem solving ability to identify trends and patterns from data.
• An exceptional academic background including a Bachelors or Masters degree in a Psychology or people based subject, with a good level of Maths at High school.
  
  

• Developing a search strategy for our business, ensuring processes enable headhunted talent to move smoothly through the pipeline.
• Coaching our senior leadership teams to drive hiring outcomes, enabling them to become expert at approaching and attracting exceptional talent for their management and leadership positions.
• Driving talent analytics to provide our business with real-time insight, partnering with the business to help them move through their hiring processes efficiently.
• Conducting in-depth behavioural talent interviews providing considerable insights into motivations and behaviours.
• Building key relationships with global stakeholders to ensure we deliver against our hiring agenda, closely monitoring hiring activities, driving results and ensuring that there is consistency in our operational processes.
• Considering our employer brand and how our interactions with a candidate impacts their experience.
• Seeking continuous improvement on hiring processes and outcomes.
• Bringing a passion for diversity and inclusion, ensuring we remove unconscious bias from our hiring process and ensuring our sourcing strategy underpins this.
  
  

• Professional experience of headhunting senior Tech talent from a reputable executive search firm or in-house search function, with an informed opinion of best practice strategies.
• Experience of working with senior stakeholders, creating learning programmes to develop their ability to successfully identify and engage with passive talent.
• Exposure or appreciation of psychometric assessments.
• Experience of conducting behavioural, competency based interviews with the ability to train stakeholders and advise on how to get the best out of an interview.
• An exceptional academic background including a Bachelors or Masters degree in a Psychology or people based subject and a good level of Maths from High School.
• Strong analytical problem solving ability to identify trends and patterns from data and proficient with LinkedIn talent modules.
• A high level of personal organisation to work remotely and be effective.
• Willingness to travel to company events 2-4 times a year, for up to two weeks each.
  
  

• Experience of more advanced analytical and statistical analysis to interrogate data i.e. SQL.
• Exposure to the following tools: Greenhouse ATS, Thomas International and DISC profiling.
• Psychometric validity and reliability metrics.
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Marketing and Sales
• Industries Software Development

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To manage the execution of IT projects in accordance with the specified and agreed upon scope, timeframe, budget, and quality requirements. To monitor adherence to project management governance, principles, standards, and methodologies.

• Define project plans incorporating scope, budget, and timeframes to ensure quality and successful project execution.
• Manage the delivery of multiple, large-scale, projects to successful completion in accordance with scope, budget, timeframe, and service level agreements.
• Monitor governance and quality of the projects, including adoption of PMO methodologies, principles, tools, standards, and processes.
• Provide onsite guidance for the project team to build and motivate team members to meet project milestones. Resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies, and critical path deliverables.
• Track and report on project status and performance, monitoring project overheads and capital expenses, project deliverables, dependencies, and timeframes.
• Identify and mitigate risks within the project and manage project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery.
• Contribute to process improvement initiatives to improve project delivery.
• Collaborate and facilitate optimum engagement between and within BCX Divisions and establish and enhance relationships and network with partners, customers and vendors in support of market dominance.

Project Management

Agile Methodology

Relationship Building

Budget Management

Job Match

Deciding & Initiating Action

Adapting & Responding to change

Planning & Organising

Writing and Reporting

Presenting and Communicating information

NQF 6: 3 year Degree/ Diploma/ National Diploma in Computer Science or Business

OR NQF 4: Grade 12

5 years’ relevant experience and relevant Project Management certification

OR

7 years’ relevant experience and relevant Project Management certification.

Agile

PMBOK

PRINCE 2

Span of Control

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Level of Engagement

Internal stakeholders and external clients