Technical Product Owner

Job Classification

TPO 142143

Closing date : 14 October

Job Family

Career Stream

Leadership Pipeline

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-AfricanAfrica 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 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 assetrelated matters including agreeing to target state versus transition state (technical debt) decisions alignedto enterprise aspirations (including pan-African Africa Representation Offices and Offshore entities)
• Ensure alignment and achievement of strategy and create a competitive advantage by translating theNedbank and business strategy into an asset strategy
• Define maintain and communicate the asset maturation strategy and roadmap in response to journey assetand 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 Nedbanksvision 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 managingappropriate risk practices
• Accountable for the maintenance and prioritisation of the consolidated portfolio backlogs with input from CRMs/BITES Product Owners and Journey POCLACS
• Ensure a stable resilient and reliable environment to the business; place appropriate emphasis on allmatters 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 thespecific 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 andinformation
• Measure the effectiveness of differentiated culture plan through staff and client feedback and ensurecorrective action plans are developed and implemented
• Facilitate the adoption of suitable chapter frameworks and drive the adoption of the skill transformation incollaboration 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 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 andplanned removal ITSM practices Automated pipeline; RSS of application landscape; Monitoring; HighAvailability & 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

Essential Certifications

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 alarge corporate organisation.

Experience in a large IT Transformation Initiative

Experience in commercial context knowledge important.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies