Job Description

To manage the deliverables and development of software and/or maintenance; taking end-to-end enterprise ownership to address client requirements in line with Nedbank Business and Information Technology strategy.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage project execution and IT technical delivery of Domestic/RealTime Payments projects, providing day-to-day project leadership.
• Manage multiple work streams of IT technical project delivery through close coordination/cooperation with Business Owners, IT Technical Leads, Technical Specialists, Business Integrator, EQA lead.
• Manage, facilitate, and create enterprise level visibility of the overall progress, dependency, issues, and risks across the various projects.
• Participating in Quality Reviews of Conceptual Designs, Detail Designs, Detail Test Plans
• Collaborating with project leadership teams and change control committee(s) to monitor dependencies and schedule impacts as they relate to project deployments
• Supporting IT leadership with issue, risk and defect resolution/escalations as appropriate
• Participation/Facilitation/leading of detailed requirement sessions
• Define and sequence activities wrt planning for execution
• Work with subject matter experts to estimate activity resources and durations
• Manage project skills and staffing plan and identify resource gaps and contention issues
• Participate and provide relevant information to audit
• Manage Technical Lead's, Technical Specialist and Developers
• Manage daily operations of Domestic Payments:
• Manage standby roster
• Chair daily standby sessions
• Ensure hardening and incident fixes are planned, executed, and deployed
• After hour standby escalation manager
• Work closely with the Domestic Engineering Lead to ensure that all work is being done according to the architecture roadmap and security directives
• BankServ and PASA representative for Domestic Payments - engage with BankServ as and when required
• Manage all the Domestic Payments applications
• Manage DATA within all the applications and ensure ALFABET is updated with the necessary information (i.e., application owner, Disaster Recovery, Architecture, upgrades, etc)
• Manage the Disaster Recovery tests and ensure planning is done accordingly
• Manage vendors quality of code, delivery timelines, resources, etc
• Participate and provide Domestic Payments yearly budgets, recoveries, vendor resources, etc
• Create Purchase Orders, receipt invoices, manage budget as per purchase orders
• Manage vendor contracts and renewals
• Manage onboarding of contract and permanent staff (participate in interviews and participate in selection, source staff - head hunting when required)
• Manage performance reviews - conduct performance reviews for permanent and vendor resources
• Create monthly executive packs and TPO reports
• Support agile team transformation and encourage teams to adopt agile values and apply Scrum
• Remove impediments and distractions to optimize teams' performance
• Promote Scrum / Agile principles in the Scrum teams and stakeholders and drive process improvements

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

• Post-Matric degree in Information Technology or Business Management
• Foundation Management Programme, Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Minimum Experience Level

• 4 Years in related teams and 1 to 2 years in supervisory/informal leadership roles (Mentoring) 5 to 6 years IT related experience
• Cloud technologies
• Payments domain knowledge and understanding
• Management and delivery of technology initiatives

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Budgeting
• Business administration and management
• Change management
• Client service management
• Diversity management
• Employee training/development
• Financial Accounting Principles
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Operations planning
• Principles of project management
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Service level agreements
• Staff resource planning
• Strategic 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
• IT Assets management processes

Behavioural Competencies

• Aligning Performance for Success
• Earning Trust
• Customer Focus
• Guiding Team Success
• Building Talent
• Driving for Results
• Planning and Organizing

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566

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