Head of Software Engineering

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Key Responsibilities: Own the full SDLC from planning and requirements through development, QA, release, and ongoing support. Provide clear, consistent reporting across delivery, quality, and support to ensure full visibility of progress and system health. Design, build, and continuously enhance CI\/CD pipelines to automate build, integration, and deployment. Drive mature release management with predictable, low-risk deployments, rollback capability, and robust change control. Champion a DevOps culture focused on shared ownership, automation-first practices, and strong feedback loops across teams. Establish and embed unit testing as a core engineering practice. Define and implement a comprehensive test strategy covering unit, integration, regression, and automation. Lead QA resources and integrate quality gates into the pipeline, ensuring testing is continuous rather than a final step. Job Experience and skill required Tertiary qualifications 9+ years in Software Development with a demonstrable progression into technical leadership. Hands-on experience of building SDLC processes from an immature baseline into a repeatable practice Experience with .NET \/ C# ecosystems, across both legacy and modern codebases Strong DevOps background: CI\/CD pipeline design, release automation and configuration management. Cloud experience is highly beneficial, particularly the ability to plan and lead a migration Demonstrated experience defining and implementing test strategy, including unit testing and test automation Apply now! For more IT jobs, please visit \/> I also specialise in recruiting in the following: Software Development Data Engineer Data Analyst Infrastructure Architecture ... and more! If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles \/ positions. For more information contact: Monica de Wet Senior Recruitment Consultant \/> 9905215721089