Tech Lead

Job Purpose

Provides technical expertise across the various streams in the software development domain. Contributes to the architecting, design, development, implementation and ensuring the quality automation standards of ISA software products. Assists in the delivery of software projects and implementation of technologies. Understands industry best practices and adopts the emerging technologies agreed.

Key Result Responsibilities

Contributes to the delivery of software products and components for ISA provides technology expertise 
and supports in the management of technology life cycle. Investigates and analyzes applications 
architecture, technology stacks, design, development, deployment and automated testing. 
In collaboration with product team, project managers, and IT solutions managers, contributes to 
translating business needs into technical implementations in line with the architectural principles laid 
down for ISA products. 
Assists in testing and implementation of technical solutions,reviews technical documentation, user 
guides, training manuals, and system specifications ensuring quality, compliance and completeness. 
Assists in reviewing,giving feedback on specifications and information of the architectural design 
provided by product team. 
Co identifies the technical tools and languages needed for the design execution in line with the adopted 
technical and quality standards. 
 

Key Result Responsibilities-Continued

Assists in establishing efficient continuous delivery process and production operations process creates 
deployment architecture based on open source technology stack for automation. Monitors the User 
Interfaces used for the product in line with requirements. 
Assists in identifying and implementing best practices, new trends, and emerging technologies that bring 
best value to ISA clients partners with cross functional teams to explore ways and means to adopt such 
technologies. 
Assists in implementing agreed remedies and preventative measures in specified area. Ensures 
compliance of the implementation with the architecture. Assists ISA teams to meet agreed service levels
provides needed status reports to specialists, users, and managers. 
Installs and maintains security patches in production and non production environments and provides 
technical governance and sign off on engineering team deliverables. 
Guides other technology experts internally ensures there is proper, sufficient and continuous knowledge 
sharing within ISA. 
Maintains effective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including project managers, 
product, operations, governance and enterprise development teams. 
Contributes to and influences thinking and decision making with respect to technology to the best of ISA. 
Performs any other additional responsibilities as directed by the line manager.

Qualifications (Academic, training, languages)

Bachelor's degree in IT Engineering,Computer Science,Information Technology or equivalent. 
Agile development certifications. 
Fluent in English Language. 

Work Experience

Minimum 5 years in software development and management out of which at least 2 years in a DevOps Architect or Software Architect. 
Holistic IT Knowledge of heterogeneous technology environments experienced with different types of end to end technology stacks. 
DevOps principles and stages of CICD process from source code management, to build, deployment and test automation, finishing with production deployment 
Hands on designing solutions for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS based set-ups, managing vendors and service providers. 
Experienced in core system configuration and systems testing. 
Experienced in networking concepts like Routing, Web Application Firewalls, Load Balancing and VPC in a cloud 
environment. 
Hands on production operations and site reliability engineering principles
Hands on technical leadership, technical solution design. 
Capable of analyzing data, identifying pitfalls and recommending cost effective solutions. 
Cost oriented, possesses effective problem solving and decision making skills. 
Employs technical and interpersonal skills to execute new initiatives and achieve companys objectives. 
Demonstrates the ability to contribute and successfully deliver against business strategy and set KPIs.