Technical Product Owner: Juristic Credit

Job Classification

Req - 141129

Closing date - 28 July 2025

Job Family

Information Technology

Career Stream

IT Operations

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Managers (MM)

Job Purpose

To drive innovation and run the bank activities in an end-to-end ownership for the Juristic Credit domain. This includes owning full stack teams applications and the funding for innovation execution as well as vendor related activities.
To ensure architectural runways are in place keeping the Juristic Credit technology stack alignment build out the requisite skills to maintain the technology stack in a sustainable manner.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the portfolio of assets leading the squads - 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 and execution runway
• 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 domain
• Develop and introduce a people strategy that will create a culture that drives the cluster and Nedbanks vision and values Strategic workforce management including skills planning demand planning and development of talent
• 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 squad staff and building a proper talent pipeline
• 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 Product Owners
• 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 squad
• Accountable for the compliance and data integrity and lineage of the applicable assets
• 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 practice frameworks and drive the adoption of the skill transformation in collaboration with the relevant practices
• Ensure economic value is derived from all activities meeting all jointly agreed squad 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; Componentised; 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

Preferred Qualification

Computer Science Informatics Engineering Degrees

Preferred Certifications

Preferred - Agile execution frameworks

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:11 Years Leading a multidisciplinary virtual team to deliver a technical capability to a large corporate organisation

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies