SEO Technical Team Lead
Admiral Markets, South Africa

Admirals is expanding and looking for a new hero to join our global team. SEO Technical Team Lead - we know you are out there!

Who we are?

Admirals is one of the world's leading FinTech companies. When we started our business 20 years ago, we were among the first online trading providers, while today we have evolved into a financial hub, making personal finance transparent and accessible to everyone and everywhere. We are constantly expanding and diversifying our product offerings, and we are known as the quality market leader throughout the years. Today, Admirals consists of a team of over 400 professionals located in 18 offices worldwide, making us a truly global organization.

Why you should become an Admiral?

• Equality and professional development - as an employer, Admirals believes in a balanced approach towards employee rights and gender equality. We care about your success and development and offer numerous training programs and benefits to enhance your skills and advance your careers.
• Global support to the team - our experience in numerous geographical regions enables us to nurture you with progressive policies that respect the value of individual and group cultures. We aim to provide an efficient infrastructure and responsive organization to support you in your daily work-related challenges.
• Our values - we value creativity, innovation, and the power of teamwork that we all bring to the table.

Your daily activities as an SEO Technical Team Lead will be:

• Carry out regular site audits (content, technical, link profile) and make recommendations for optimizing the site.

• Make on-page recommendations based on keyword research, working closely with the PPC, development amp; content teams.
• Support the development team with website launches and migrations (redirect strategies, content migration, crawl-budget optimization).
• Understand best practice International SEO techniques and implementation
• Conduct competitor analysis and insights. (link strategies, on page and content) In-depth backlink analysis and auditing processes.
• Plan and execute digital marketing activities to achieve agreed KPIs.

• Review SEO performance across key metrics and other key indicators such as ranking and visibility.
• Support in the management of Admirals own digital marketing strategy, ensuring the roadmap milestones and KPIs are met.
• Maintain detailed monthly reporting documents to monitor and communicate SEO performance.
• Work closely with the heads of department and account managers to formulate SEO roadmaps and strategies for internal use.
• Contribute to pitches and review campaign performance.

• Analyze and understand complex SEO issues or needs to produce simple explanations and specific action plans that support our SEO strategy
• Fulfillment of reporting and interpreting data into meaningful analysis that can lead to decisions by our SEO Account Strategists and client-side teams
• Support Account Strategists during reporting presentations by answering technical questions from clients
• Optimize all technical aspects of our website for maximized indexing and keyword relevance
• Keep pace with SEO, search engine, and internet marketing industry trends and developments and report changes (and subsequent strategy updates) as needed

• Advise, collaborate with, and synthesize feedback from internal teams, to push for technical SEO best practices
• Use a variety of tools to monitor rankings, traffic, conversions, competitors, and link profiles for clients
• Maximize organic traffic growth for clients, ensuring that modern SEO techniques are properly and consistently implemented
• Promote and foster analytical skills for all team members
• Analytics: 1- Validate data integrity in Google Analytics and other platform, 2- Fulfill client Monthly Dashboards amp; Quarterly Reports , 3- Fulfill one-off analysis and reporting to inform Strategy and Editorial teams

• Complete Technical SEO Audits
• Setup and configuration of WordPress plugins

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years proven experience in an technical SEO role (in-house or agency).
• Be able to demonstrate your role in search traffic growth from a current/previous position.
• Good working knowledge of Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Tag Manager and SEO tools like Screaming Frog, Deep Crawl Semrush, AHREFS, etc.
• Experience in reporting back to stakeholders, making recommendations for improvements and provide rationale behind those recommendations.
• Basic understanding of common web technologies (HTML/CSS, JS Libraries, PHP, Python, et

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