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Description
Role purpose:
Vodacom Mozambique is looking for a dynamic, talented and results driven Technology Lead for the E-Commerce operation. The appointed person will own the E-commerce platform development, its supporting infrastructure and manage the developers in various roles to deliver on the desired customer experience for Bazara. The role is ideal for individuals with a start-up mindset, problem-solving skills and drive for continuous improvement
Key accountabilities and decision ownership
- Own the E-Commerce Marketplace platform and it’s supporting infrastructure;
- Responsible for the technology team (mobile, frontend, full stack) and their effectiveness in delivering company goals;
- Create and implement agile processes to ensure smooth delivery of features and projects with the team and resources available;
- Deliver customer experience improvements on the platform frontend and backend with inputs from admins, maintainers, users and vendors;
- Maintain tidiness of codebase and architecture. Keep technical debt in check;
- Build for scalability, high availability and failover recovery;
- Create and own the development roadmap and coordinate delivery with the team available.
Core competencies, knowledge and experience
- Practical, hands-on problem solving approach;
- Good people management and coordination skills in a technology first team;
- Strong working knowledge of agile delivery, systems architectures and Web technologies (PHP, SQL, JS, HTML, CSS);
- Intimate knowledge and experience with Magento and MVC Frameworks;
- Good development practices (Docs, Composer, Version Control, Automated tests, branch based development);
- Magento development experience;
- Knowledge of setting up supporting infrastructure for web apps (Nginx, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Varnish, Load Balancing)
Must have technical / professional qualifications
- Degree in Computer Engineering, Informatics, or similar;
- Minimum 3 years’ experience as a senior developer with proven track record;
- Tertiary qualification and certifications (advantage)
Travel: As deemed necessary for training, conferences, customer feedback
Key performance indicators
- Agile Delivery Metric (Sprint Yield, Flow, Velocity, Burn down);
- Delivery of improvements per sprint;
- Site performance metrics;
- Uptime 99.9%
Commitment from Vodacom
Vodacom is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a flexible, motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognized, developed and rewarded. We believe that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business and we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment which respects, values, celebrates and makes the most of people’s individual differences – we are not only multinational but multicultural too. At Vodacom you will have access to our excellent flexible benefits programme that you would expect from any global company.