Johannesburg, South Africa On-site Contract ZAR 650 – 768 / hour

HelloKindred is hiring an Engineering Lead

Responsibilities

  • Lead full-cycle technical delivery during the build phase, ensuring tasks are properly sequenced, managed, and aligned with established priorities, scope, and deadlines.
  • Coordinate with Business Product Owners, Technical Product Owners, the Chief Architect, and engineering teams to ensure clear decision-making and consistent delivery momentum.
  • Supervise the creation, evaluation, and finalization of technical specifications and supporting build materials prior to development initiation.
  • Manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and decisions across multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups.
  • Provide governance oversight, deliver status updates, and manage escalations to ensure quality outcomes and timely resolution of challenges.
  • Serve as the bridge between technical design plans and implementation, ensuring development teams have clear direction for execution.
  • Convert business and product objectives into a structured technical delivery roadmap for engineering teams.
  • Ensure all technical requirements, specifications, dependencies, interfaces, and acceptance conditions are clearly defined before development begins.
  • Lead and synchronize build efforts across development and support teams to meet scope, schedule, and quality standards.
  • Align architectural decisions, technical designs, backlog priorities, and engineering activities to maintain consistency.
  • Monitor progress toward milestones and intervene when encountering blockers, design gaps, resource constraints, or delivery risks.
  • Support testing, release, and deployment readiness by ensuring build outputs are complete, properly managed, and traceable.

Work Arrangement

On-site

Other

  • Expected contract end date: ASAP through July 31st, 2027
  • Work setup: Onsite, with in-office presence required from Monday to Thursday
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HelloKindred
HelloKindred are specialists in staffing marketing, creative and technology roles, offering a range of talent solutions that can be delivered on-site, remotely or hybrid.
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Posted 2 months ago