Lead Digital Solutions Engineer

Minimum Requirements:

• Grade 12 or equivalent
• Relevant degree in Information Technology (Essential)
• Post Graduate or Masters degree (Beneficial)
• Agile Project Certification
• Minimum of 10 years experience, of which, 3 must have been in a lead role
• Proven experience leading successful projects in digital transformation and innovation
• Extensive experience in digital innovation and transformation
• Expert in the areas of digitization and digital transformation
• Extensive knowledge of emerging industry practices when solving business problems
• Expert in agile project management to lead projects that meet strategic goals

Responsibilities:

• Oversee digital innovation initiatives
• Implement and guide best practices within the digital solutions and innovation frameworks
• Lead cross-functional teams
  Responsible for policy development related to digital transformation and solutions
• Perform trend analysis on incidents and outages and drive execution of the corrective measures within the digital solutions landscape
• Drive the development of the Innovation roadmap and implement for areas of assigned responsibilities
• Identify continuous improvement/automation activities that is designed to minimise costs and time
• Provide the solution and architecture for building and maintaining the knowledge base for the Digital Solutions environment
• Ensure that all relevant training is completed using the latest technologies for e-learning and seamless consumption
• Assist and guide Digital solution Engineers with designing the solution in accordance with the organisation architecture
• Provide mentorship and guidance to the team
  Lead large projects or processes of complex scope with limited oversight from Manager
• Coach, review, and delegate work to Business Improvement Engineers
• Understand strategic goals from the organisation and based upon them, design elegant solutions from a holistic viewpoint
• Define the pathway for the adoption and advancement of the framework
• Ensure integration of frameworks based on the organisational strategy
• Develop and implement digital innovations and technological upgrades
• Determine technical and product designs by balancing process cost, yield, and other considerations
• Design, drive and execute digital innovations with the purpose of increasing productivity, eliminating wastefulness, saving
  time, reducing costs, and ensuring quality standards are maintained
• Review and approve documents from Senior Digital Solution Engineers where required
• Support relationships through strong communication and negotiation skills with internal and external stakeholders
• Vendor management & 3rd party management where applicable
• Drive change management in a pro-active manner
• Drive continuous improvements and digital innovations methodologies
• Train all Digital Solution Engineers