Tech Lead
Shoprite
Brackenfell
Salary not specified - Full-time
Job Description
About the Role
The Tech Lead provides strategic technical leadership across digital platforms by shaping and validating complex solution designs that meet evolving business needs. Ensures all solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, standards, and governance requirements to maintain consistency and control. Guides engineering teams in delivering scalable, secure, and high-performing systems that support long-term sustainability. Influences technical decision-making across cross-functional teams to optimise integration, performance, and reliability. Drives disciplined execution and quality outcomes by balancing innovation with risk management and operational efficiency. Job Description:
Requirements
- Collaborative partner
- Builds strong relationships with stakeholders while driving cross functional work teams and projects. Open, honest and direct, comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback. Thinks and acts independently as well as collaboratively.
- Technology expert, bringing top-quality expertise to drive priorities while introducing new tools and practices. Is curious and adaptable, finds agile and rapid ways of implementing solutions fast.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Integrates multiple data sources to apply strong judgment; applies expertise to execute functions in a competitive, evolving shopper landscape.
- Detail orientated
- able to identify process inefficiencies and proactively resolve performance or delivery concerns.
- Ability to work under pressure and under tight time constraints, managing multiple demands while organizing, prioritizing, and reordering workload in a rapidly changing and fast-moving environment.
- Highly organised with a focus on execution. An attitude of accountability with a strong drive for excellence
- Sets stretch goals for self and others while working tenaciously toward meeting and exceeding expectations.
- Innovative and solution-orientated
- Open to new ideas and possibilities and proactively contributes ideas and solutions that serve the flow of work and meeting deadlines.
- Results-driven - Proactively drives results, setting stretch goals for self and others, while remaining focused and working tenaciously to meeting and exceeding expectations within quality standards.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills. Able to simplify technical concepts and convey messages and ideas to users across organisational levels.
- Flexible and resilient
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment, balancing multiple and competing priorities while managing ambiguity and adapting as the business evolves.
- An independent, motivated self-starter, with the ability to take initiative and work under own direction.
- Business acumen - Understands how business operates and the issues and risks that drive technological success and impact commercial viability.
