Published 2026-03-03
Our client in the fraud prevention industry is looking for a Technical Team Lead to join their team. The role is fully remote and can be performed from anywhere in South Africa.
The company combats fraud across the financial services industry by providing a shared database to member organisations, and offering the public a way to protect themselves against impersonation and identity theft.
Role Purpose
Lead the ongoing development, maintenance, and enhancement of a cloud-based anti-fraud platform, ensuring high security standards, stable delivery, and strong technical governance.
Key Accountabilities
Oversee the full software development lifecycle: development, deployments, enhancements, and support.
Lead and manage the internal development team (team lead plus front-end developers).
Maintain and enforce coding standards, quality practices, and technical governance.
Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for deployments to Azure.
Evaluate and prioritise service and change requests.
Provide 2nd and 3rd line technical support and problem resolution.
Manage technical resources and delivery within the SAFPS team environment.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Relevant tertiary qualification in IT / Computer Science / Software Development (or equivalent experience).
5–8 years' software development experience, with proven technical leadership or team lead exposure.
Strong experience designing and delivering secure, cloud-hosted systems (ideally aligned with financial services security expectations).
Technical Requirements
Core (must-have):
C# and. NET (including Entity Framework)
Secure authentication/authorisation (e.g., Identity Server or similar)
Azure cloud management (hosting, monitoring, and operational oversight)
Dev Ops / CI/CD pipeline management (Azure Dev Ops or similar)
Docker and containerised deployments
Microservices architecture with REST API creation and integration
SQL Server: database design/architecture, optimisation, and performance tuning
API documentation tools such as Swagger/Open API
Front-end exposure (advantageous):
Vue.js, Type Script, Webpack
Working knowledge (nice-to-have / not expert level):
MVC
Min IO
Rabbit MQ
Competencies
Strong technical leadership and ability to guide standards and best practices.
Delivery-focused with a structured approach to change, incident, and release management.
Strong problem-solving skills (hands-on, senior-level troubleshooting).
Clear communicator, able to align technical decisions with business and risk requirements.
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