Technical Product Owner: Loyalty

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Nedbank Full time

Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Consultant

  • REQ Thembi Mtshali
  • Job Family
  • Information Technology
  • Career Stream
  • IT Operations
  • Leadership Pipeline
  • Manage Managers (MM)
  • FAIS Affected
    Job Purpose
  • To ensure the alignment of the Business and Nedbank IT Strategy and to manage sustainable business cluster partner relationships whilst ensuring the optimal value is realised from asset capabilities, driving enterprise priority and delivery teams work, to ensure innovation execution in alignment to strategy.
  • To facilitate the determination of the longterm strategic technology needs (Innovation and Support) of the relevant asset (which includes security and infrastructure capabilities)

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the portfolio of assets, leading the POCLAC accountable for the final decision making on all asset related matters, including, agreeing to target state versus transition state (technical debt) decisions aligned to enterprise aspirations (including panAfrican, Africa Representation Offices and Offshore entities)
  • Ensure alignment and achievement of strategy and create a competitive advantage by translating the Nedbank and business strategy into an asset strategy.
  • Define, maintain, and communicate the asset maturation strategy and roadmap in response to journey, asset and business needs.
  • Assist in realising the commercial goals of the organisation.
  • Develop and introduce a people strategy that will create a culture that drives the cluster and Nedbank's vision and values.
  • Build a sustainable highperformance team by developing modernised skill sets.
  • Ensure the leadership agenda has been embraced by the division/function.
  • Build a culture of excellence/continuous improvement.
  • Contribute to team effectiveness by participating in the recruitment and selection of senior staff and building a proper talent pipeline.
  • Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in culture building initiatives, business strategy, and CSI.
  • Ensure alignment to governance and compliance requirements through establishing and managing appropriate risk practices.
  • Accountable for the maintenance and prioritisation of the consolidated portfolio backlogs with input from CRM's/BITES, Product Owners and Journey POCLACS.
  • Ensure a stable, resilient and reliable environment to the business; place appropriate emphasis on all matters relating to IT Risk, specifically with respect to the centralisation of IT systems
  • Plan, execute, monitor and control activities over an Enterprise Disaster Recovery environment for the specific assets assigned to the POCLAC.
  • Accountable for the compliance and data integrity and lineage of the applicable assets.
  • Develop and implement a strategy to build a differentiated culture by analysing relevant surveys and information.
  • Measure the effectiveness of differentiated culture plan through staff and client feedback and ensure corrective action plans are developed and implemented.
  • Facilitate the adoption of suitable chapter frameworks and drive the adoption of the skill transformation in collaboration with the relevant chapters.
  • Ensure economic value is derived from all activities, meeting all jointly agreed POCLAC budget commitments.
  • Leverage opportunities to create a competitive and commercially successful function.
  • Accountable for the optimising the TCO of the assets.
  • Accountable for an enterprise asset strategy and roadmap, balancing creating technical capabilities that match Journey business capability demand, SME/FCI demand, and keeping the assets healthy and competitive.
  • Ensure commercial soundness and relevance through endtoend Financial Management of the asset value chain.
  • Ensure asset innovation execution of the endtoend life cycle of all portfolio innovation relating to the implementation of innovation efforts according to the agreed organisational methodology and strategy
  • Ensure successful innovation and operations delivery.


Essential Qualifications
  • NQF Level
  • Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees


Preferred Qualification
  • B.Sc Computer Science, B.Com Informatics, Engineering Degrees


Preferred Certifications
  • Preferred
  • TOGAF, Leading SAFe, Project Management (PMBok/PMI, Prince II etc)


Minimum Experience Level
  • Total number of years of experience:11 years +
  • Management experience as part of the above years:67 Years
  • Type of experience:11 Years + Leading a multidisciplinary virtual team to deliver a technical capability to a large corporate organisation

Technical / Professional Knowledge

  • Technical skills
  • Product management
  • Project Management
  • Financial management
  • Strategy planning and execution
  • Vendor Management Skills
  • Stakeholder management
  • Governance, Risk and Controls
  • Relevant regulatory knowledge


Behavioural Competencies
  • Delegation and Empowerment
  • Execution
  • Decision Making
  • Building Talent
  • Customer Focus
  • Guiding Team Success
  • Leadership Determination
  • Driving In


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