Job Description

Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Specialist

REQ 144385 - Keabetswe Modise

Closing Date: 16 Jan 2026

Recruiting for 2 Roles

Job Family

Information Technology

Career Stream

IT Application Development

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Managers

Job Purpose

To manage (end to end) the strategy; planning; organising; negotiating; staffing directing and controlling of all aspects of projects or programmes for a portfolio in ensuring the successful implementation of IT Projects and to realise the business cluster strategy. Provides expert advice and counsel to functional/ and non-functional user personnel and project teams on the most complex aspects of integration of logical groupings of technologies. To facilitate agreed solution and ensure the solution meets business requirements with minimal impact to the stability of the IT environment.

Job Responsibilities

Assist in defining the operational business requirements of the business (KPI'S, SLA's processes and procedures and reporting) through translating organisational strategy into functional strategy and assigning accountability to relevant stakeholders Effectively manage the delivery of services to the stakeholders by establishing governance forums and by understanding, assessing and managing escalated risks associated with programmes and projects Optimise the effectiveness of resources through modelling capacity requirements across full portfolio and by understanding and communicating impact of capacity requirements Ensure optimal organising of environment by specifying the nature of capacity requirements in alignment with strategic priority and by actively managing the capacity of the project managers in the team and negotiate where capacity constraints occur Ensure end to end design is aligned to architecture road maps by understanding thel and scape and through regular engagement with relevant stakeholders Ensure effective optimisation of systems, processes and technology by doing route cause analysis and taking corrective measurement and ensuring standards defined per technology with regard to integrations are adhered to take responsibility for implementation of programme and project governance that aligns to project methodologies, processes and project disciplines Continuously encourage customer centricity by defining/developing tiered SLA's in order to improve delivery and cost efficiencies Define and agree service level of operational and call centre support - including support and maintenance, application health and stability Escalate project performance to relevant board by clearly showing business objectives according to business cases Ensure optimal team delivery by considering and making amendments to processes, structures, operating models and business plans Ensure transformational target are met through consideration of targets during the staff recruitment, retention and training process and utilising suppliers listed on the preferred supplier list for department Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals and support business strategies that improve the corporate image by ensuring self, managers and team participation in Nedbank culture building initiatives Participate and ensure managers encourage staff to participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy Ensure issues raised in culture survey are addressed and results are improved by ensuring action plans are created Deliver a world class service through others by ensuring a client centric culture through required interventions. Identify areas of resource inefficiencies and promote optimisation through promoting multi-skilling and addressing capacity gaps by reviewing and improving work processes Manage branch budget (recoveries of staff incl) through responsible budget planning and management and by driving efficiencies Ensure project execution of the end to end life cycle of all portfolio programmes and projects relating to the implementation of IT projects according to the project methodology and strategy. Ensure successful project delivery by dealing with escalated project issues, non-delivery conflicts and integration Enhance the credibility of the function by reviewing project metrics and by meeting with the project managers to give direction to project execution Successful execution of Innovation and Technical projects through the Project Management Office

Key Responsibilities

Day to day management of a team of 5-6 resource Support the nWOW way of working and adopt an AGILE way of workin Lead and drive performance and optimisation challenges in the environment -own ddrive the Network Flattening deliverable Accountable for platform health, agile delivery, total cost of ownership (TCO), and talent management, while ensuring the platform continues to enable business outcomes at scale.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

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

Preferred Certifications

Ab Initio Product Knowledge: GDE, Co>Operating system, Express>It. Batch and real-time data processing concepts, Metadata-driven development. Scheduling tool (control-M) SAS Enterprise Guide / VIYA / Visual Investigator / 9.4

Minimum Experience Level

7 - 10 years experience in an IT environment (across IT disciplines) of which at least 2 years in a feeder area to this role In depth SAS product knowledge: BASE SAS / SAS 9.4 and SAS VIYA In depth Ab initio, DB2, DINIDO, NETEZZA Cloud knowledge MS AZURE / Dev OPS certification Be familiar with network constructs

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