Head of Software Engineering

Full Time 2 weeks ago Gauteng, South Africa

Employment Information

Key Responsibilities:

 
  • Own the full SDLC from planning and requirements through development, QA, release, and ongoing support.
  • Provide clear, consistent reporting across delivery, quality, and support to ensure full visibility of progress and system health.
  • Design, build, and continuously enhance CI/CD pipelines to automate build, integration, and deployment.
  • Drive mature release management with predictable, low-risk deployments, rollback capability, and robust change control.
  • Champion a DevOps culture focused on shared ownership, automation-first practices, and strong feedback loops across teams.
  • Establish and embed unit testing as a core engineering practice.
  • Define and implement a comprehensive test strategy covering unit, integration, regression, and automation.
  • Lead QA resources and integrate quality gates into the pipeline, ensuring testing is continuous rather than a final step.

Job Experience and skill required 
  • Tertiary qualifications 
  • 9+ years in Software Development with a demonstrable progression into technical leadership. 
  • Hands-on experience of building SDLC processes from an immature baseline into a repeatable practice 
  • Experience with .NET / C# ecosystems, across both legacy and modern codebases 
  • Strong DevOps background: CI/CD pipeline design, release automation and configuration management. 
  • Cloud experience is highly beneficial, particularly the ability to plan and lead a migration 
  • Demonstrated experience defining and implementing test strategy, including unit testing and test automation 

Apply now!
 
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Monica de Wet 
Senior Recruitment Consultant 
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