Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact REQ: 136844
Cluster: Nedbank GT
Location: 135 Rivonia Road, Nedbank Head Office, Sandton
Closing Date: 20 November 2024
Job Family Information Technology
Career Stream IT Application Development
Leadership Pipeline Manage Managers
Job Purpose To 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.
- 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.
- Ensure a stable, resilient and reliable environment to the business; place appropriate emphasis on all matters relating to IT Risk.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ensure asset innovation execution of the end-to-end life cycle of all portfolio innovation relating to the implementation of innovation efforts.
- Ensure successful innovation and operations delivery.
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level - Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
- Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
Preferred Qualification - B.Sc Computer Science, B.Com Informatics, Engineering Degrees
Essential Certifications - Formal accreditation in professional field where applicable
Preferred Certifications - Preferred - TOGAF, Leading SAFe, Project Management (PMBok/PMI, Prince II etc)
Minimum Experience Level - Total number of years of experience: 11 years +
- Management experience as part of the above years: 6-7 Years
- Type of experience: Leading a multidisciplinary virtual team to deliver a technical capability to a large corporate organisation.
- Experience in a large IT Transformation Initiative
- Experience in commercial context knowledge important.
Technical / Professional Knowledge - Budgeting
- Business administration and management
- Business principles
- Capacity planning
- Change management
- Client service management
- Communication Strategies
- Diversity management
- Employee training/development
- Financial Accounting Principles
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Organisational behaviour theory
- Principles of project management
- Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Stakeholder management
- Strategic planning
- Talent management
- Business writing skills
- Management information and reporting principles, tools and mechanisms
- System Development Life cycle(SDLC)
- Role relevant related technologies
- ITIL
- IT Concepts
- Business Process
Behavioural Competencies - Building Partnerships
- Facilitating Change
- Inspiring others
- Business Acumen
- Driving for Results
- Selecting Talent
- Delegation and Empowerment
Disclaimer Preference will be given to candidates from the underrepresented groups
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