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%.

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