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Senior Technical Lead

FinSense Africa · Nairobi, KE

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Key Responsibilities

  • Assess the current state of engineering performance, DevOps maturity, platform reliability, and AI readiness, and establish improvement priorities.
  • Lead the design and execution of initiatives that improve software delivery performance, quality, reliability, and developer productivity.
  • Provide technical leadership and design authority across engineering, platform, DevOps, and AI enablement initiatives.
  • Establish and strengthen CI/CD, testing, observability, release management, and reliability practices aligned with industry best practices.
  • Define and implement governed AI enablement frameworks, including security, access controls, auditability, knowledge retrieval, and responsible AI practices.
  • Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, security, risk, compliance, operations, business stakeholders, and external partners to drive aligned execution.
  • Develop and monitor engineering performance metrics and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure measurable business outcomes.
  • Mentor internal teams and embed sustainable engineering standards, governance, and knowledge transfer to build long-term capability.

Requirements

Experience

  • Minimum 7 years' experience in software engineering or platform engineering.
  • Minimum 5 years in senior technical leadership or principal engineering roles.
  • Demonstrated experience leading enterprise DevOps transformations.
  • Experience improving engineering performance using DORA metrics or equivalent frameworks.
  • Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience leading cloud platform modernization initiatives.
  • Experience implementing observability and reliability engineering practices.
  • Practical experience delivering enterprise AI solutions with governance and security controls.
  • Experience working within regulated or enterprise environments is highly desirable.

Skills

Leadership
LOCATION

Where you will work.

Nairobi
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