Integration Platforms Lead
Dis-Chem Pharmacies · Gauteng
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- Dis-Chem Pharmacies has an opportunity available for a Integration Platforms Squad Lead, reporting into the Integration and Engineering Platforms Tribe Lead, owns the end-to-end health, delivery, and operational performance of Dis-Chem's integration platforms.
- This platform enables reliable, secure, and governed data exchange across retail, customer, core, and external partner systems through APIs, events, batch interfaces, and middleware.
- The role leads a cross-functional squad responsible for designing, building, and operating reusable integration capabilities that reduce point-to-point complexity, protect data integrity, and enable scalable platform-to-platform connectivity across the enterprise.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field
- 7+ years' experience in integration platforms, middleware, or enterprise systems
- Proven experience leading cross-functional delivery teams or platform squads
- Experience in complex, multi-system enterprise environments preferred
Responsibilities
Platform ownership and roadmap
- Own execution of the integration platforms roadmap within the Integration Platforms Tribe
- Shape priorities, dependencies, and sequencing with the Tribe Lead and Product Owners
- Drive standardisation and reuse of integration patterns, APIs, and messaging frameworks
- Reduce point-to-point integrations and technical debt across the landscape
Delivery and operations
- Lead the integration squad delivering interfaces, APIs, events, and middleware capabilities
- Ensure stable operation of integrations, including monitoring, alerting, error handling, and recovery
- Own release planning, testing, and production support for integration changes
- Proactively manage incidents, root-cause analysis, and prevention of repeat failures
Governance and collaboration
- Ensure integrations comply with enterprise architecture, integration standards, and security requirements
- Coordinate closely with Application Platform squads, Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Data teams
- Manage integration tooling and vendor partners within tribe-level governance frameworks
- Escalate architectural, data-integrity, capacity, or priority trade-offs as required
Competencies
- Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns APIs, events, batch, messaging
- Experience operating high-reliability, data-critical platforms
- Ability to balance delivery speed with platform stability and governance
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management skills across technical teams
Key Performance Indicators
- Availability, reliability, and performance of integration platforms
- Reduction in integration failures, data flow incidents, and manual workarounds
- Adoption and reuse of standard integration patterns, APIs, and services
- On-time delivery of integration enhancements and platform changes
- Satisfaction of application platform squads consuming integration services
- Contribution to culture, accountability, engagement, and continuous improvement
Ways of working Agile & squad-based
- Lead a cross-functional integration platform squad using Agile delivery principles
- Operate with clear platform ownership and accountability
- Promote reuse, standardization, and continuous improvement
- Balance delivery enablement with enterprise governance and operational reliability
Special Conditions of Employment
- South African citizen
- MIE, clear criminal and credit
- Driver's license and/or own reliable transport
Remuneration and benefits
- Market related salary
- Medical aid
- Provident fund
- Staff account
Closing Date 02 October 2026