Technical Product Owner

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Nedbank Full time
Job title : Technical Product OwnerJob Location : Gauteng, JohannesburgDeadline : March 07, 2025Quick Recommended Links
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Job Purpose

  • To manage (end to end) the strategy; planning; organising; negotiating; staffing directing and controlling of all aspects of projects or programmes for a portfolio in ensuring the successful implementation of IT Projects and to realise the business cluster strategy. Provides expert advice and counsel to functional/ and non functional user personnel and project teams on the most complex aspects of integration of logical groupings of technologies.To facilitate agreed solution and ensure the solution meets business requirements with minimal impact to the stability of the IT environment.

Job Responsibilities

  • Assist in defining the operational business requirements of the business (KPI'S, SLA's processes and procedures and reporting) through translating organisational strategy into functional strategy and assigning accountability to relevant stakeholders
  • Effectively manage the delivery of services to the stakeholders by establishing governance forums and by understanding, assessing and managing escalated risks associated with programmes and projects
  • Optimise the effectiveness of resources through modelling capacity requirements across full portfolio and by understanding and communicating impact of capacity requirements
  • Ensure optimal organising of environment by specifying the nature of capacity requirements in alignment with strategic priority and by actively managing the capacity of the project managers in the team and negotiate where capacity constraints occur
  • Ensure end to end design is aligned to architecture road maps by understanding the landscape and through regular engagement with relevant stakeholders
  • Ensure effective optimisation of systems, processes and technology by doing route cause analysis and taking corrective measurement and ensuring standards defined per technology with regard to integrations are adhered to
  • Take responsibility for implementation of programme and project governance that aligns to project methodologies, processes and project disciplines
  • Continuously encourage customer centricity by defining/developing tiered SLA's in order to improve delivery and cost efficiencies
  • Define and agree service level of operational and call centre support - including support and maintenance, application health and stability
  • Escalate project performance to relevant board by clearly showing business objectives according to business cases
  • Ensure optimal team delivery by considering and making amendments to processes, structures, operating models and business plans
  • Ensure transformational target are met through consideration of targets during the staff recruitment, retention and training process and utilising suppliers listed on the preferred supplier list for department
  • Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals and support business strategies that improve the corporate image by ensuring self, managers and team participation in Nedbank culture building initiatives
  • Participate and ensure managers encourage staff to participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
  • Ensure issues raised in culture survey are addressed and results are improved by ensuring action plans are created
  • Deliver a world class service through others by ensuring a client centric culture through required interventions. Identify areas of resource inefficiencies and promote optimisation through promoting multi-skilling and addressing capacity gaps by reviewing and improving work processes
  • Manage branch budget (recoveries of staff incl) through responsible budget planning and management and by driving efficiencies
  • Ensure project execution of the end-to-end life cycle of all portfolio programmes and projects relating to the implementation of IT projects according to the project methodology and strategy. Ensure successful project delivery by dealing with escalated project issues, non-delivery conflicts and integration
  • Enhance the credibility of the function by reviewing project metrics and by meeting with the project managers to give direction to project execution
  • Successful execution of Innovation and Technical projects through the Project Management Office

Critical tasks that the candidate will be involved in on a regular basis:

  • Manage Overall Budget and Forecasts
  • Strategic Leadership
  • People Strategy Development
  • Application Management
  • Technical Debt Management

Technical Knowledge

  • A deep understanding of technical aspects relating to software systems.
  • Ability to manage technical projects and teams
  • Strong problem-solving skills to address technical challenges and make informed decisions

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

  • Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate

Preferred Qualification

  • Matric and relevant tertiary qualification
  • Degree in Computer Science

Essential Certifications

  • Formal accreditation in professional field where applicable

Preferred Certifications

Minimum Experience Level

  • 10 years' experience in an IT environment (across IT disciplines)
  • Managing enterprise scale software applications end to end.
  • Experience with managing multiple software teams, and team managers.
  • Banking experience beneficial
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