Technical Specialist

**Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Consultant
**REQ - 115073 Thembi Mtshali

**Job Family**

Information Technology

**Career Stream**

It Technical/Specialists

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Professional

**Job Purpose**

To perform acquiring Certification for all payment schemes(Mastercard, Visa, Amex, Diners, UPI ).

**Responsibilities**:

- Conduct testing, certification and document test results.
- Analyse test results to determine possible failure points.
- Create and maintain test plans including vendor provided test cases.
- Prior experience with EMV specifications, Payment scheme specifications and testing procedures.
- Be familiar with major credit/debit card networks, card processing and industry standards.
- 2+ years experience performing EMV payment testing using various credit card/chip and pin devices.
- Experience in QA/QC software testing including identifying required testing, performing analysis and developing associated test plans.
- Contactless/Contact payments experience.
- Design and implementation of flexible, reusable and maintainable tests.
- Consult and provide advice on the use of multiple products.
- Address the needs of the proposed solution by developing or configuring the specific product.
- Ensure ongoing availability within the SLA requirements.
- Ensure maximum exploitation of multiple product features across multiple business initiatives.
- Identify further opportunities for use of multiple products.
- Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in Nedbank culture building initiatives, business strategy, and CSI.
- Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, ensuring personal and professional growth.
- Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and values, leading by example.
- Identify opportunities to influence the improvement or enhancement of business processes and methodologies.
- Participate in Research and Development related to product usage. Ensure alignment with emerging technologies, and communicate the impact on Nedbank technologies.
- Participate and influence the Technology Evolution journey.
- Present to stakeholders on any impact or change to specific product. Meet client needs.
- Provide stakeholders with business information on product performance

**Key Responsibilities
**- Expand IP beyond own product speciality.
- Work collaboratively with stakeholders.
- Provide support on specific product Issues when consulted to provide problem solving.
- Participate in design forums, project forums and in Request for Proposal (RFP) document and maintain documents relevant to specific products.
- Align to strategic IT policies and procedures.
- Define and document standards relevant to specific product.
- Ensure implementation is aligned to compliance and legislation.
- Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses.
- Maintain or validate up to date detail landscape views and technical guidelines of how specific products are implemented at Nedbank. Provide technical mentoring related to specific product.
- Attend product specific industry forums.
- Attend technology specific industry forums and compile and present technical papers.
- Ensure alignment to Nedbank environment and legislative requirements.
- Review Nedbank and Business Unit Plan and ensure delivered systems, process, services and solutions are aligned to support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values. Contribute to the content of the curricula for stakeholders
- Enable skilling and required corrective action taking place by sharing knowledge and industry trends with team.
- Grow the profession through technical mentoring.
- Review vendor training offerings.
- Stay abreast of changes related to the product.
- Develop the skill (applicable technical product skill) within the organisation and act as skills mentor on specific product.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
- Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
- Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification
- BSc. Computer Science/ IT related Degree or equivalent experience IT Related Diploma or Degree

**Essential Certifications**
- Accredited where formal expert certification on technology is available JMP or MMP or equivalent

Preferred Certifications
- EMVCo Certification
- SAFe Certification

Type of Exposure
- Completed Reports and Achieved Budgets
- Developed and Implemented Communications Strategy
- Manage internal process
- Managed Relationships
- Managed Self
- Supported Transformation, Change and continued Improvement

Minimum Experience Level
- 10- 15 years experience in IT environment at least 3 years in senior role from feeding career streams, at least 3-5 years specialising on specific product with proficient understanding in multi products

**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Banking knowledge
- Business Acumen
- Business principles
- Business writing
- Change management
- Industry tre