Integration Platforms Lead

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

ONLY SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED. IF YOU HAVEN`T BEEN CONTACTED WITHIN TWO WEEKS AFTER THE CLOSING DATE CONSIDER YOUR APPLICATION AS UNSUCCESSFUL.

Dis-Chem Pharmacies is an equal opportunity employer. Dis-Chem’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process aligned to Dis-Chem’s Employment Equity & Transformation Strategy. Dis-Chem actively supports the recruitment of People with Disabilities.