Engineering Director: Fulfilment

The role

This person will oversee three engineering teams responsible for the maintenance and development of fulfilment systems. They will drive technical strategy for efficiency, scalability, security, performance, and uptime while managing orchestration between warehousing and logistics systems.

What you will do

• Enable and empower engineering managers and senior engineering resources
• Build and retain multiple high-caliber engineering teams
• Define hiring objectives and support recruitment efforts
• Develop and monitor Key Performance Indicators for the division
• Provide coaching, guidance, and upskilling to team members
• Manage individual performance through reviews and feedback
• Maintain architectural oversight and build long-term roadmaps
• Accountable for the scale, reliability, efficiency, performance, security, and quality of systems
• Relate business and technical objectives to actionable work
• Manage risk and monitor budgets for systems and team expenses

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in IT, Engineering, or any related area of study or equivalent experience
• At least 10 years of experience
• 5 years of experience managing engineering teams
• Experience managing strategic technology roadmaps with customer focus
• Experience with building RESTful API web services and microservices
• Experience with relational databases
• Experience with event-driven systems
• Significant technical experience and a proven track record of architectural ownership and understanding
• Thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
• Experience in developing distributed, high-transactional and available systems
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience in supply chain and/or logistics

Before you apply

• Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference

About the company

Takealot Group is South Africa’s leading online retailer. It is a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company.