Data Analytics Delivery Lead

7 days ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Nedbank Full time

REQ 138497 - Keabetswe Modise
Closing Date: 31 March 2025

Job Family

Information Technology

IT Application Development

Manage Managers

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 Data and Analytics 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 requirements of the business (KPI's, SLA's processes, 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 the 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 resources 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 root cause analysis, 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 SLAs in order to improve delivery and cost efficiencies.
  • Define and agree service level of operational 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 targets 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 staff to give direction to project execution.
  • Successful execution of Innovation and Technical projects through the Project Management Office.
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
  • Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
Essential Qualifications
  • BSC Engineering, BSC Computer science, B Comm Information Technology
Minimum Experience Level
  • 6 to 8 years line management and 10 years IT Industry experience.
  • Experience in data analysis and reporting.
  • Skills in data modelling, data analysis, data engineering, and analytical and visualization tools.
  • Good understanding of database architecture.
  • Experience in SQL.
  • Experience in MS Fabric and Power BI.
  • Experience in Statistical Analysis (Python).
Technical / Professional Knowledge
  • Budgeting
  • Business administration and management
  • Business principles
  • Business terms and definitions
  • Capacity planning
  • Change management
  • Client service management
  • Communication Strategies
  • Diversity management
  • Employee training/development
  • Governance, Risk and Controls
  • Organisational behaviour theory
  • Principles of project management
  • Relevant regulatory knowledge
  • Strategic planning
  • Talent management
  • Business writing skills
  • Management information and reporting principles, tools, and mechanisms
  • System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Role relevant related technologies
  • ITIL
  • IT Concepts
  • Business Process
  • Products and Services
  • Building Partnerships
  • Facilitating Change
  • Inspiring others
  • Business Acumen
  • Driving for Results
  • Selecting Talent
  • Delegation and Empowerment
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