Senior Technical Lead
South Africa
Job Description
Senior Technical Lead
Johannesburg, Gauteng

Job Summary

To be responsible for managing technology in complex projects ,providing technical guidance and ensuring successful delivery of solutions.

Key Responsibilities

1. To be responsible for providing technical guidance to a team of developers, enhancing their technical capabilities and increasing productivity.
2. To conduct comprehensive code reviews, establish and oversee quality assurance processes, performance optimization , implementation of best practices and coding standards to ensure successful delivery of complex projects.
3. To ensure process compliance in the assigned module| and participate in technical discussions/review as a technical consultant for feasibility study (technical alternatives, best packages, supporting architecture best practices, technical risks, breakdown into components, estimations).
4. To collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, deliverables and accordingly prepare and submit status reports for minimizing exposure & closure of escalations.

Skill Requirements

Senior IBM BPM/BAW

Technical Responsibilities:

• Analysing, design, development and troubleshoot IBM BPM & BAW solutions

• Development using JavaScript within the IBM BPM/BAW product.

• Develop RESTful services for external applications to connect and implement Restful / SOAP based webservice calls using external services in IBM BPM (Swagger/WSDL)

• Working with SQL Server / IBM DB2 / Oracle Database, UCAs, Team Filter/Retrieval Services and external integrations

• Design, development of reusable toolkits and frameworks to reduce the development effort

• Development, implementation, and optimisation of automated processes throughout the Business Process Management lifecycle within IBM BPM.

• Ensuring best practices are applied to all Process Applications as part of Continuous Improvement.

• Knowledge of FileNet (CMIS)

• Migrating Process Apps from 8.5.7 to BAW V21 (includes IBM BPM 8.6) with rigorous regression testing and SIT sessions with Test Analysts.

• Production support and Production incident management.

• UI implementations (BPM UI, coaches and custom coach views)

 

Business Process Engineering Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain business processes and procedures to meet business objectives in line with organisational standards and methodology and clear communication to business at all times.

• Functional requirement gathering.

• Process analysis, mapping, re-engineering and monitoring using best practices.

• System Analysis.

• Technical Solution Architecture design and implementation.

 

Desired Platform Knowledge:

• IBM BPM 8.5.7, 8.6 and BAW v19 (Required)

• Confluence

• Splunk

• Jira

• Postman

• SoapUI

• SQL

• API Connect

• AppDynamics

• Swagger Editor

 

Requirements:

• 4-8-years’ experience in BPM development experience

• Tertiary qualification in I.T

• Experience with IBM BPM / BAW, JSON, XML and JavaScript

• Fundamental understanding of best practices and anti-patterns

• Good understanding of data structures, application systems and exception handling

• Should be able deliver independently with minimal Knowledge Transfer

• Knowledge and understanding of Business Process Management Notation (BPMN) methodology and modelling

Other Requirements

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Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 226,300 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending December 2025 totaled $14.5 billion.

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