Lead Technology

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

Lead the agile solution design, deployment & ongoing optimization & evolution of enterprise wide technology products and services (full stack engineering & ownership / control) in complex environments.

Job Description

Key critical requirements and experience:

- 8-10 years Information Technology experience
- Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science OR; equivalent level of industry certification in Technical field
- Experience working in a Payments or RTGS payments environment
- Banking and or Corporate Investment Banking experience
- Understanding or prior experience working with SWIFT payments
- Prior experience implementing payment solutions across multiple African countries
- Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and delivering scalable payment infrastructure
- Experience and proven track record defining enterprise wide technical strategies single / limited product / service environment
- Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision making ability in collaborative environments
- Experience working on a high risk and complex systems or environment
- Familiarity with regulatory requirements
- Experience working with core banking systems, payment switches etc
- Risk mindset
- Experience with cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP) in payment contexts

Key Accountabilities:

- Lead the technology strategy for payment platforms, with a focus on real-time and cross-border payments across Africa
- Drive the architecture, development, and integration of RTGS systems in line with country-specific central bank requirements
- Product and Service Direction Setting, Solution Design and Performance Management
- Act as the single point of partnership and assume responsibility for managing the senior business interface (product owner) relationship
- Collaborate across the tech value chain to guide the business on the appropriate technical solution (cost to value) and the range of strategic technical choices to be made
- Lead the detailed scoping, prioritisation & integration planning for the design & deployment of products and services with and across multiple stakeholder groups
- Meaningfully contribute and ensure solutions align to the design and direction of the Group Architecture standards, principles, preferences and practices. Short term deployment must align to strategic long term delivery
- Meaningfully contribute and ensure solutions align to the design and direction of the Group Infrastructure standards and practices
- DevOps (with deep knowledge & understanding of context within which we develop architecturally & infrastructurally)
- Delivery Management (where there is a specific product / service you manage)
- Build a high performance team environment through self-directed teams by driving performance management and measurement that is aligned with agile working practices
- Accountable for the right people in the right teams to deliver on our tech strategy
- Leverage coaching techniques in all squad related activity to drive a higher quality design and deployment of technical products and services
- Financial and Vendor Management, Risk and Governance

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
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