Job Description

Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition ContactREQ: 135489 Technical Product Owner ITalent Acquisition Contact: Lerato SitholeCluster: Nedbank GTLocation: 135 Rivonia Road, Nedbank Head Office, SandtonClosing Date: 25 September 2024Job FamilyInformation TechnologyCareer StreamIt Application DevelopmentLeadership PipelineManage ManagersJob PurposeTo ensure that the applicable application grouping relating to an asset is receiving the necessary investment from an architectural runway & health perspective, aligned to our enterprise aspirations (including pan-African, Africa Representation Offices and Offshore entities), ensuring economic value is derived from this asset grouping and ensuring sustainable IT operations.
To ensure the alignment of the Business and Nedbank IT Strategy and to manage sustainable business cluster partner relationships whilst ensuring the optimal value is realised from asset capabilities, driving enterprise priority and delivery teams work, to ensure innovation execution in alignment to strategy.
To facilitate the determination of the long-term strategic technology needs (Innovation and Support) of the relevant asset (which includes security and infrastructure capabilities).Job Responsibilities

• Lead the portfolio of assets, leading the POCLAC - accountable for the final decision making on all asset related matters, including, agreeing to target state versus transition state (technical debt) decisions aligned to enterprise aspirations (including pan-African, Africa Representation Offices and Offshore entities)
• Ensure alignment and achievement of strategy and create a competitive advantage by translating the Nedbank and business strategy into an asset strategy.
• Define, maintain, and communicate the asset maturation strategy and roadmap in response to journey, asset and business needs.
• Assist in realising the commercial goals of the organisation.
• Develop and introduce a people strategy that will create a culture that drives the cluster and Nedbank's vision and values.
• Build a sustainable high-performance team by developing modernised skill sets.
• Ensure the leadership agenda has been embraced by the division/function.
• Build a culture of excellence/continuous improvement.
• Contribute to team effectiveness by participating in the recruitment and selection of senior staff and building a proper talent pipeline.
• Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in culture building initiatives, business strategy, and CSI.
• Ensure alignment to governance and compliance requirements through establishing and managing appropriate risk practices.
• Accountable for the maintenance and prioritisation of the consolidated portfolio backlogs with input from CRM's/BITES, Product Owners and Journey POCLACS.
• Ensure a stable, resilient and reliable environment to the business; place appropriate emphasis on all matters relating to IT Risk, specifically with respect to the centralisation of IT systems.
• Plan, execute, monitor and control activities over an Enterprise Disaster Recovery environment for the specific assets assigned to the POCLAC.
• Accountable for the compliance and data integrity and lineage of the applicable assets.
• Develop and implement a strategy to build a differentiated culture by analysing relevant surveys and information.
• Measure the effectiveness of differentiated culture plan through staff and client feedback and ensure corrective action plans are developed and implemented.
• Facilitate the adoption of suitable chapter frameworks and drive the adoption of the skill transformation in collaboration with the relevant chapters.
• Ensure economic value is derived from all activities, meeting all jointly agreed POCLAC budget commitments.
• Leverage opportunities to create a competitive and commercially successful function.
• Accountable for the optimising the TCO of the assets.
• Accountable for an enterprise asset strategy and roadmap, balancing creating technical capabilities that match Journey business capability demand, SME/FCI demand, and keeping the assets healthy and competitive.
• Ensure commercial soundness and relevance through end-to-end Financial Management of the asset value chain.
• Accountable for the overall health of the asset, which includes Upgrades, Technical Debt monitoring, and planned removal, ITSM practices, Automated pipeline; RSS of application landscape; Monitoring; High Availability & DR; Data enabled; Componentized; Cloud enabled (where fit); & equipped for all multi-scenario usage.
• Ensure asset innovation execution of the end-to-end life cycle of all portfolio innovation relating to the implementation of innovation efforts according to the agreed organisational methodology and strategy
• Ensure successful innovation and operations delivery.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

• B.Sc Computer Science, B.Com Informatics, Engineering Degrees

Preferred Certifications

• Preferred - TOGAF, Leading SAFe, Project Management (PMBok/PMI, Prince II etc)

Minimum Experience Level

• 8-10+ years experience
• 8+ years leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver a complex delivery, features, processes, and capability to a large corporate organisation and client base.
• 6-8 years management experience

Technology Exposure

• Enterprise Content Management OpenText and IBM Products_
• IBM Business Process Management
• ELK stack
• event driven architecture, cloud.
• Exposure to Java,
• RPA , hyper automation would also be beneficial

Technical/ Professional Knowledge

• Strategy planning and execution
• Technical skills
• Project management
• Technical Product Management

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Budgeting
• Business administration and management
• Change management
• Client service management
• Communication Strategies
• Diversity management
• Employee training/development
• Financial Accounting Principles
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Principles of project management
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Stakeholder management
• Strategic planning
• Talent management
• Workforce planning
• Business writing skills
• Management information and reporting principles, tools and mechanisms
• System Development Life cycle(SDLC)
• ITIL
• IT Architecture
• General Communication Skills
• Joint application development
• Organisational structure
• Influencing
• IT Assets management processes

Behavioural Competencies

• Building Partnerships
• Facilitating Change
• Inspiring others
• Business Acumen
• Building partnerships
• Driving for Results
• Selecting Talent

DisclaimerPreference will be given to candidates from the underrepresented groupsPlease contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566

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