Technical Product Owner: Core Banking

4 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Nedbank Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Product Owner to lead our Core Banking team. As a key member of our organization, you will be responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of our Core Banking product.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead the portfolio of assets, ensuring alignment with our enterprise aspirations and strategy.
  • Define, maintain, and communicate the asset maturation strategy and roadmap.
  • 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 high-performance 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 end-to-end Financial Management of the asset value chain.
  • Accountable for the overall health of the asset, which includes Upgrades, Technical Debt monitoring, and planned removal, ITSM practices, Automated pipeline; RSS of application landscape; Monitoring; High Availability & DR; Data enabled; Componentised; Cloud enabled (where fit); & equipped for all multi-scenario usage.
  • Ensure asset innovation execution of the end-to-end 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.
Requirements
  • Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
Preferred Qualifications
  • 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:6-7 Years
  • Type of experience:11 Years + Leading a multidisciplinary virtual team to deliver a technical capability to a large corporate organisation.
  • Experience in a large IT Transformation Initiative
  • Experience in commercial context knowledge important.
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 Innovation
Disclaimer

Preference will be given to candidates from the underrepresented groups

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team

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