Senior Automation Design Practitioner

**Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact**
- Requisition nr: 139982
Talent Acquisition Specialist: Tshego Semenya
Location: 135 Rivonia Road, Sandown
Closing date: 20 June 2025

**Cluster**
- Nedbank Retail Business Banking

**Career Stream**
- IT Application Development
- Leadership Pipeline

**Position**
- Senior Automation Design Practitioner

**Why join our team**
- Step into a high-impact role where innovation, growth, and real business transformation converge. Join a dynamic, fast-paced team leading the charge in automation across Retail and Business Banking. This is more than just a job; it’s a chance to work with the latest automation tools, collaborate across business units, and be part of a forward-thinking environment that values continuous improvement.
- You’ll play a key role in evaluating and re-engineering business processes, identifying automation opportunities, and designing smart, scalable solutions that drive measurable results. With strong leadership support, access to upskilling opportunities, and a culture that encourages innovation, you’ll have the tools and mentorship to grow your career while making a tangible impact.
- If you're a sharp process analyst with a solid development background (Java, C#, C++, SQL), and you're passionate about solving problems, improving efficiency, and delivering value—this is your next big move.

**Job Purpose**
- To contribute to business success by providing analyst services in order to understand and optimise business processes and prepare appropriate Automation business cases and solution designs.

**Responsibilities**:

- Application of business process evaluation and mapping techniques to describe current business processes and identify the feasibility of optimising business results through automation.
- Determine the current productivity using existing business processes.
- Calculate the cost benefits of automation.
- Document required business case information, including potential risk and risk reduction.
- Application of process re-engineering techniques to optimise business processes.
- Evaluate business process performance.
- Develop business process improvements.
- Test and verify improvements.
- Develop implementation processes.
- Define the automated process.
- Develop a solution design.
- Anticipate risks.
- Improve design to mitigate/eliminate risks.
- Provide Coaching and Mentorship.
- Execution of coding and programming activities in order to create sustainable, reusable automation artefacts, and the execution of quality tests.
- Interpret the solution design and define process and object design instructions.
- Use development techniques and programming language to build the required objects.
- Conduct testing.
- Conduct peer coding reviews.
- Facilitate user acceptance testing.

**Minimum Experience Level**
- 5 years practical experience in business process analysis
- 2 years practical experience in analysing processes to identify automation opportunities
- Competent software developer with experience on different languages (Java, C#, C++, SQL)
- Experience testing product functionality
- Experience with performance and/or security testing
- Ability to Design Solutions

**Essential Qualifications - NQF Level**
- Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

**Preferred Qualification**
- NQF Level 7 Qualification in Business Analysis

**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Banking knowledge
- Banking procedures
- Business principles
- Business terms and definitions
- Data analysis
- Governance Risks and Controls
- Microsoft Office
- Relevant Software and system Knowledge
- Business writing skills
- Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge

**Disclaimer**

**_ Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566_**
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566_