Group Chief Technology Officer needed at takealot.com
Job title : Group Chief Technology Officer
Job Location : Western Cape, Cape Town
Deadline : May 09, 2025
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Your responsibilities will include:
- Establish the company’s technical vision and lead all aspects of technological development.
- Play a crucial role in driving technological innovation, shaping the digital roadmap, and ensuring the successful implementation of technology initiatives.
- Collaborating closely with product and business leadership to ensure the company’s technology requirements are aligned with the company’s vision, strategy, and roadmap
- Help steer the organisation toward greater efficiencies and better performance by adopting the right technology investments
- Identify technology trends to continuously scale up the products with a strong focus on AI capabilities to drive customer experience and resource efficiency
- Develop IT architecture strategies, partnering with the security team to implement changes to existing technology, keeping up to date with current and future levels of IT security, threats, vulnerabilities
- Demonstrate strong leadership traits to gain the trust & confidence of existing technology and product leaders and build a culture of growth, learning, and innovation
- Build a vibrant engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, teamwork, and curiosity
- Maintain rigorous performance management practices to uphold high standards of performance and accountability whilst maintaining, growing, and evolving our group’s technical talent and organisational structure.
- Ensure the technical budget is properly forecasted, monitored, and optimized.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Should bring 20+ years of experience, with the last 5-8 years in leadership roles in eCommerce or relevant industry will be beneficial
- The leader should be willing to get his hands dirty whenever needed and should have a strong desire to work with engineers at all levels.
- Proven track record of crafting and rolling out several technologies and products to fast-paced, dynamic businesses.
- Experience in working on complex systems and the adoption of new and state-of-the-art technologies is helpful.
- Expertise in large-scale application development, data engineering, mobile app development, and SAAS technologies.
- Hands-on experience in architecting distributed and big-data systems using the newest technologies.
- Should have a sound understanding of analytics systems. Should have built platforms/systems/applications supporting large numbers of users and transactions
- Should have been an integral part of the product management lifecycle from conception to delivery.
- A track record of owning products from start to finish would be an added advantage.
- Strong track record of leading managers and high-performing engineering teams. Should have demonstrated outstanding people leadership skills.
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