Engineering Manager

• Own end-to-end delivery and execution across cross-functional teams within the product area
• Evaluate business and product requirements for technical feasibility and architectural alignment
• Translate requirements into EPICs and technical user stories
• Partner with Product Managers, UX Designers, and Engineers to refine, groom, and prioritize the backlog
• Plan and drive sprint execution, timelines, milestones, and dependencies
• Champion engineering processes and rituals supporting collaboration, accountability, and efficiency
• Monitor team velocity and capacity and optimize resource allocation
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and stakeholder alignment
• Guide design decisions, enforce sound design patterns, and participate in code reviews
• Ensure monitoring, alerting, observability, and defined SLIs/SLOs for owned services
• Define, track, and publish post-release product metrics with Product Managers
• Manage and mentor engineers, conduct performance reviews, and foster team growth
• Lead project status reviews and maintain communication between teams and leadership

• Lead a team of around 10 engineers in the Templating Domain
• Report directly to the VP of Software Engineering
• Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing engineering team
• Own hiring, onboarding, and team structure as the domain scales
• Provide technical leadership across architecture, engineering practices, and operational excellence
• Partner with Product and Design to define priorities and deliver business impact
• Own delivery, quality, reliability, and long-term domain health
• Drive technical direction and architectural decisions, balancing speed, scalability, and maintainability
• Remove obstacles, support engineers, and foster a high-ownership engineering culture
• Champion pragmatic AI adoption across engineering and product development
• Collaborate with adjacent teams to deliver seamless end-to-end experiences
• Lead production incident management and continuous improvement initiatives
• Participate in design reviews, incident discussions, and technical decision-making

Engineering Manager – Templating

• Lead the development, modernisation and maintenance of applications, systems and platforms
• Translate technology strategy into stable, secure, resilient, cost-conscious systems supporting digital, data and AI-enabled business outcomes
• Lead software and product engineering, platform/infrastructure and DevOps, data engineering and analytics, AI/ML and automation, security engineering, quality engineering and SRE
• Improve delivery speed and quality while maintaining production stability, security and governance across legacy platforms and complex integrations
• Set engineering standards, establish delivery discipline, build engineering capability and hold teams accountable for measurable outcomes
• Develop and maintain quality procedures, engineering standards, testing, certification of technology processes and quality controls
• Manage major engineering programmes and take accountability for business-critical projects
• Collaborate on the digital roadmap and lead execution of workflows, processes and enablers for rapid delivery while maintaining legacy applications and IT operations
• Grow engineering and digital talent through development plans, coaching, mentoring and improved employee experience
• Identify opportunities to improve digital products, services and user experiences
• Document current-state and target-state processes and define migration changes
• Translate function strategy into team actions and motivate people to deliver business goals
• Set objectives, manage performance, hold individuals accountable and take corrective action
• Define the business impact of security incidents and drive prevention recommendations with security and risk stakeholders
• Manage departmental budgets and ensure cost-conscious, value-led delivery and modernisation choices
• Assess capability gaps, prioritise development, implement development frameworks and strengthen the engineering talent pool
• Oversee complex existing and new applications and ensure they meet customer and business requirements
• Define and maintain application software roadmaps and prioritise engineering work
• Provide specialist advice to senior managers on policy, projects and change initiatives
• Drive organisation-wide adoption of AI-assisted development tools and measure impact on delivery speed, quality and engineering capacity
• Build and scale a self-service internal developer platform with golden paths, reusable components and automated guardrails
• Embed responsible AI, model risk management and data governance controls into engineering delivery
• Establish and report delivery and reliability metrics, including DORA metrics and SLOs/error budgets
• Establish and lead a Chapter operating model across Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Platform and DevOps, Quality Engineering and SRE, Security Engineering, and AI/ML
• Maintain competency frameworks and career ladders, close skills gaps, and monitor engagement, attrition, internal mobility and time-to-competency
• Ensure Chapter Leads drive AI-assisted tools and practices and measure their impact across engineering disciplines

Engineering Manager jobs in South Africa

Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager – Templating

Head of Engineering