Lead Technology

2 months ago

Randburg, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together one story at a time.
- With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group. Job Summary

Integrated Channels a division within Everyday Banking is looking for a Lead Technology professional to take on full accountability for technology delivery within the program.

Job Description
- Manage all interactions between the program team and the broader technology team.
- Guide proposed business solutions by assessing their feasibility from a technology perspective.
- Drive the implementation of identified solutions through collaboration with relevant technology teams, aligning with executive oversight.
- Ensure that discussions on challenges and solutions incorporate a technology perspective, keeping technology considerations at the forefront.
- Work closely with leadership to manage the financial structure of technology resources allocated to the program.
- Proactively address and mitigate risks related to the technology skills needed for the program.

Product & Service Direction Setting, Solution Design & Performance Management
- Work with the CIO & business product owners to define the product & technical strategy (Full Stack - End to End)
- Act as the single point of partnership & assume responsibility for managing the senior business interface (product owner) relationship
- Assume one stop shop accountability for the delivery of the product & solutions (risk cannot be outsourced to vendors)
- Lead & facilitate the design of the product & or service solution blueprints aligned to the organization strategy (Short, Medium & Long Term)
- Collaborate across the tech value chain (CSO, CTO, etc.) to guide the business on the appropriate technical solution (cost to value) & the range of strategic technical choices to be made
- Lead the detailed scoping, prioritisation & integration planning for the design & deployment of products & services with & across multiple stakeholder groups (Front End, Back End & Integration) - (aligned to solution blueprints)
- Meaningfully contribute & ensure solutions align to the design & direction of the Group Architecture standards, principles, preferences & practices. Short term deployment must align to strategic long term delivery.
- Meaningfully contribute & ensure solutions align to the design and direction of the Group Infrastructure standards and practices e.g. OLA’s, IAAS, PAAS, SAAS, Containerisation etc.

DevOps (with deep knowledge & understanding of context within which we develop architecturally & infrastructurally)
- Ensure the most optimal design & deployment of technical products and services in the organization (via pipeline - not manually)
- Ensure solution designs deliver on the key technical principles of: self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
- Guide code development practices and processes through an understanding of complex concepts and developmental practices such as threading, parallel processing, asynchronous programming, domain driven design, lambdas etc. & coding language expertise (e.g. Java, C++, Groovy, Python, Bash, Perl, Ruby etc.)
- Effectively manage the DevOps pipeline & associated releases for maximum customer impact & minimum business risk
- Coach & Mentor senior developers across squads on the technical competencies to effectively deliver on DevOps solutions (see Dev competency model in skills & competencies section). To do this, display proficiency in the Senior level competency requirements.

Delivery Management (where there is a specific product / service you manage)
- With fluency in the deployment of agile methodologies, resource & manage the appropriate number and nature (skill & capability) of squad based teams to execute on both Run & Change elements of delivery
- Work in collaboration with transformation & change teams for effective resourcing and delivery management of various programmes at all levels (SI, BU etc.)
- Ensure agile practices are implemented and sustained for effective delivery to business e.g. RETRO’s etc.
- Positively & proactively manage product owner relationships including building product owner technical capability to enable balanced & best fit decision making
- Proactively engage with & partner CTO, CSO, SE, Risk and broader enablement functions to drive alignment & leading practice in technology design & deployment

People
- Set & Cascade Product & Service direction across squads
- Proactively attract, recruit, develop, retain, reward & deploy a diverse resource base aligned to an ever evolving tech environment (ahead of demand)
- Build a high performance team environment through self-directed teams by driving performance management & measurement that is aligned with agile working practices (including daily, weekly, etc.

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