Job Description

- Oversee digital innovation initiatives;- Implement and guide best practices within the digital solutions and innovation frameworks; - Lead cross-functional teams; - Responsible for policy development related to digital transformation and solutions; - Perform trend analysis on incidents and outages and drive execution of the corrective measures within the digital solutions landscape; - Drive the development of the Innovation roadmap and implement for areas of assigned responsibilities; - Identify continuous improvement/automation activities that is designed to minimise costs and time; - Provide the solution and architecture for building and maintaining the knowledge base for the Digital Solutions environment; - Ensure that all relevant training is completed using the latest technologies for e-learning and seamless consumption; - Assist and guide Digital solution Engineers with designing the solution in accordance with the organisation architecture; - Provide mentorship and guidance to the team; - Lead large projects or processes of complex scope with limited oversight from Manager; - Coach, review, and delegate work to Business Improvement Engineers; - Understand strategic goals from the organisation and based upon them, design elegant solutions from a holistic viewpoint; - Define the pathway for the adoption and advancement of the framework; - Ensure integration of frameworks based on the organisational strategy; - Develop and implement digital innovations and technological upgrades; - Determine technical and product designs by balancing process cost, yield, and other considerations; - Design, drive and execute digital innovations with the purpose of increasing productivity, eliminating wastefulness, saving time, reducing costs, and ensuring quality standards are maintained; - Review and approve documents from Senior Digital Solution Engineers where required; - Support relationships through strong communication and negotiation skills with internal and external stakeholders; - Vendor management & 3rd party management where applicable; - Drive change management in a pro-active manner; - Drive continuous improvements and digital innovations methodologies; - Train all Digital Solution Engineers- Relevant degree in Information Technology (Essential); - Post Graduate or Masters degree (Beneficial); - Agile Project Certification; - Minimum of 10 years experience, of which, 3 must have been in a lead role; - Proven experience leading successful projects in digital transformation and innovation; - Extensive experience in digital innovation and transformation; - Expert in the areas of digitization and digital transformation; - Extensive knowledge of emerging industry practices when solving business problems; - Expert in agile project management to lead projects that meet strategic goals.Personal Attributes:- Leadership skills; - Stakeholder management; - Communication; - Interpersonal skills; - Project Management; - Results driven; - Able to handle sensitive and confidential information; - Ability to keep ones composure in a fast moving, dynamic environment; - Problem solving and decision making; - Strategic decision-making; - Strategic thinking skills; - Ability to work in a team and independently; - Internal and external networking; - Integrity and values; - Confidence; - Passionate; - Immaculate time keeping.

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