Platform Delivery Head

1 week ago

Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

Job Description

Hello Future Platform Delivery Head

Welcome to FirstRand, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.

As part of our talent team, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change.

Overview of the role and requirements:
To oversee and ensure the successful delivery of our technology platforms. Lead cross-functional teams to implement technology solutions that meet business objectives.

You will be responsible for:

- Facilitate investment and capacity prioritisation for budgeting across the portfolio.
- Surface interdependencies across the portfolio and facilitating appropriate sequencing, ensuring trade-offs understood.
- Report across risk, delivery, costs vs budget, estimate time to completion and resourcing with associated actionable insights. Consumption of this reporting being for both internal and external stakeholders e.g. regulator.
- Accountable for directing, owning, evolving and governing the Group wide standards, frameworks, measurement, operating model and associated enabling tooling across people, process, technology, and data - in collaboration with the various segment PMO.
- Conduct external and competitor benchmarking to validate and evaluate our approach and progress in modernising our PMC ensuring it supports our platform objectives.
- Build strong working relationships across segments, countries, and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration, and innovation.
- Own the decision-making process on build, buy or partner for PMC technologies, within the context of the Group standards and frameworks.
- Drive a commercial mindset within the PMC community through measurement, up-skilling and change management.
- Drive the ‘get, keep and grow’ Group people strategy for the PMC ensuring our people skills are aligned to successfully deliver on our platform objectives.
- Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative successful outcomes of the investment in modernising our PMC, in contributing to the achievement of our Platform objectives.
- Continuously evaluate and improve project delivery processes, methodologies, and tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
- Implement best practices for program and project governance, ensuring consistent execution across all technology initiatives.
- Establish metrics and KPIs to monitor the progress and success of delivery initiatives, ensuring transparency and accountability.
- Provide regular updates and reports to the Chief Digital Officer and other stakeholders regarding project status, risks, and outcomes.

What you will need:

- Over 5 years' experience in a similar role

We can be a match if you can:

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Able to work under pressure
- Good senior stakeholder management experience
- Effective written and verbal communication skills

You will have access to:

- Opportunities to network and collaborate.
- Challenging Work.
- Opportunities to innovate.

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Job Details

27/04/25

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