Group Chief Technology Officer needed at takealot.com

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.