Job Description

Job Classification

Requisition IDs: 142696 & 142697

Closing date: 25 November 2025
Job Family
Information Technology
Career Stream

IT Technical Specialists
Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self

Job Purpose

To provide guidance and advice related to the integration of solutions across technologies; ensuing all outputs are in compliance with current governance and legislation and provide IT leadership based on IT and business acumen.

Job Responsibilities

The incumbent will build, support and evolve intelligent systems that drive business improvement, automation and workflow efficiency. Design, develop, and operationalize AI-powered solutions that optimize the end-to-end fraud lifecycle--from fraud detection, through prevention, to management and resolution. Consult and provide advice on the use of the multiple technologies. Address the needs of the bank by deploying, supporting and configuring multiple technologies. Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, ensuring personal and professional growth. Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and values, leading by example. Ensure alignment with emerging technologies, and impact on Nedbank technologies and legislative requirements. Become a trusted consultant by providing trustworthy information and acknowledge if advice cannot be provided. Break down components of end to end design and defined logical units of work. Raise unallocated or missing components of design with project lead. Validate the individual design components and integrate these into end to end design. Ensure test strategy covers full end to end design. Provide integration solutions and validate the technical component design. Review and approve component designs. Consult on the resolution of high impact problem solving across. Build end to end design and release to stakeholders. Ensure alignment to IT strategy to architecture roadmaps. Lead end to end design on project. Ensure awareness of Group Technology initiatives and standards. Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values. Enable skilling and required corrective action to take place by sharing knowledge and industry trends with team. Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes to improve stakeholders' businesses.
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees Preferred Qualification
Advance Diplomas/Bachelors degree Essential Certifications
Accredited where formal expert certification on technology is available JMP or MMP or equivalent Preferred Certifications
Emerging Technology- AI and Cloud (Azure) certifications Minimum Experience Level
10- 15 years experience in an IT environment across infrastructures of which at least 2 years in a senior role from feeder areas

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Banking knowledge Business Acumen Business writing Principles of financial management Principles of project management Relevant regulatory knowledge Relevant software and systems knowledge Risk management process and frameworks Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge Mentoring Information Technology concepts System Development Life cycle(SDLC) Role relevant related technologies Service orientated Architecture (SOA) IT Solutions Architecture IT Infrastructure Architecture Knowledge across multiple technologies IT Risk and security principes Usability and GUI techniques Multiple operating system Systems Analysis and design Technical/Professional Knowledge continued

Core AI & Data Skills

Machine Learning (ML) - model development and deployment. Natural Language Processing (NLP) - email and document parsing. AI Builder / Copilot Studio - Power Platform AI tools. Data Engineering - ETL pipelines, cleansing and enrichment. Prompt engineering and LLM Operations- especially for building, fine-tuning, and deploying LLM-powered solutions. Model Evaluation, Observability & Responsible AI- experience with model monitoring, drift detection, explainability and responsible AI practices (bias detection, fairness, transparency).

Integration & Automation

Power Automate / Power Apps - workflow orchestration. RESTful APIs Azure Functions / Logic Apps - serverless automation. Kafka/Elastic/Queue skills

Backend & Cloud

Cloud Platforms - Azure (preferred), AWS. Dataverse / D365 - data modelling and integration. Java / .NET - backend development.

Additional recommended skills

SQL / NoSQL - data querying and storage. CI/CD Pipelines - DevOps practices. Security & Compliance - data governance, access control, and auditability. Containerization - Docker/Kubernetes.
Behavioural Competencies
Earning Trust Communication Collaborating Decision Making Initiating Action Innovation Work Standards Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
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Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566