Chief Technology Officer Centurion

Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together…one story at a time. With over years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

Lead the agile solution design, deployment & ongoing optimization & evolution of enterprise wide technology products and services (full stack engineering & ownership / control) in low complexity environments.

Job Description

Product & Service Direction Setting, Solution Design & Performance Management

• Work with the CIO & business product owners to define the product & technical strategy (Full Stack – End to End).
• Act as the single point of partnership & assume responsibility for managing the senior business interface (product owner) relationship.
• Assume one stop shop accountability for the delivery of the product & solutions (risk cannot be outsourced to vendors).
• Apply design thinking practices to deliver architecturally sound technical product & service solutions.
• Lead & facilitate the design of the product & or service solution blueprints aligned to the organization strategy (Short, Medium & Long Term).
• Collaborate across the tech value chain (CSO, CTO, etc.) to guide the business on the appropriate technical solution (cost to value) & the range of strategic technical choices to be made.

Deployment and Monitoring

• Lead the detailed scoping, prioritisation & integration planning for the design & deployment of products & services with & across multiple stakeholder groups (Front End, Back End & Integration).
• Contribute & ensure solutions align to the design & direction of the Group Architecture standards, principles, preferences & practices.
• Strategically & operationally monitor the performance of products and services (all applications) – ensuring ongoing optimization & cost to value for our businesses.
• Leverage expert level skill & knowledge in architecture & Infrastructure, design and manage all development & development practices across squads.
• Ensure optimal design & deployment of technical products and services in the organization.
• Design & Implement Automation Testing, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery Strategies & frameworks across squads for effective solution development & deployment.

Technical Principles

• Ensure solution designs deliver on the key technical principles of: self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience.
• Guide code development practices and processes through an understanding of complex concepts and developmental practices.
• Guide & ensure the delivery of quality development based on experience in developing across a range of applications.
• Effectively manage the DevOps pipeline & associated releases for maximum customer impact & minimum business risk.
• Manage the maintenance & optimization of applications, products & services as a 'way of doing things / culture' within the development teams.

Coaching and Mentoring

• Coach & Mentor senior developers across squads on the technical competencies to effectively deliver on DevOps solutions.

Delivery Management

• Fluently deploy agile methodologies, resource & manage the appropriate number and nature of squad based teams.
• Work in collaboration with transformation & change teams for effective resourcing and delivery management.
• Ensure agile practices are implemented and sustained for effective delivery.
• Proactively manage product owner relationships including building product owner technical capability to enable balanced decision making.
• Engage with & partner CTO, CSO, SE, Risk and broader enablement functions to drive alignment & leading practice in technology design & deployment.

People Management

• Attract, recruit, develop, retain, reward & deploy a diverse resource base aligned to an evolving tech environment.
• Build a high performance team environment through self-directed teams.
• Accountable for the right people in the right teams to deliver on our tech strategy.
• Leverage coaching techniques in all squad related activity to drive a higher quality design and deployment.

Financial & Vendor Management, Risk & Governance

• Carry the 'one stop shop' accountability for all risk associated with technical decision making.
• Manage & Apply the organization risk & governance frameworks.
• Ensure decisions on infrastructure & product design are aligned to chapter & guild guidelines.
• Involve / engage chapter & guild leads in product design & infrastructure decision making.
• Manage all vendor selection processes & take full accountability for all related commercial impact.
• Negotiate best fit contracts for the organization at an enterprise level.
• Deliver on time & on budget.

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of , preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank. Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised.