Lead Technology

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

1. Product & Service Direction Setting, Solution Design & Performance Management
2. Work with the CIO & business product owners to define the product & technical strategy (Full Stack – End to End).
3. Act as the single point of partnership & assume responsibility for managing the senior business interface (product owner) relationship.
4. Assume one-stop shop accountability for the delivery of the product & solutions (risk cannot be outsourced to vendors).
5. Apply design thinking practices to deliver architecturally sound technical product & service solutions.
6. Lead & facilitate the design of the product & or service solution blueprints aligned to the organization strategy (Short, Medium & Long Term).
7. 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.
8. Lead the detailed scoping, prioritisation & integration planning for the design & deployment of products & services with & across multiple stakeholder groups.
9. Ensure solutions align to the design & direction of the Group Architecture standards, principles, preferences & practices.
10. Strategically & operationally monitor the performance of products and services (all applications) – ensuring ongoing optimization & cost to value for our businesses.
11. Leverage the required expert level (own) skill & knowledge in architecture & Infrastructure, design and manage all development & development practices & outputs across squads.
12. Ensure the most optimal design & deployment of technical products and services in the organization.
13. Design & Implement Automation Testing, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery Strategies & frameworks across squads.
14. Ensure solution designs deliver on the key technical principles of: self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience.
15. Guide code development practices and processes through an understanding of complex concepts and developmental practices.
16. Effectively manage the DevOps pipeline & associated releases for maximum customer impact & minimum business risk.
17. Manage the maintenance & optimization of applications, products & services as a 'way of doing things / culture' within the development teams.
18. Coach & Mentor senior developers across squads on the technical competencies to effectively deliver on DevOps solutions.
19. Resource & manage the appropriate number and nature (skill & capability) of squad-based teams to execute on both Run & Change elements of delivery.
20. Ensure agile practices are implemented and sustained for effective delivery to business.
21. Positively & proactively manage product owner relationships.
22. Proactively engage with & partner CTO, CSO, SE, Risk and broader enablement functions.
23. Set & Cascade Product & Service direction across squads.
24. Attract, recruit, develop, retain, reward & deploy a diverse resource base aligned to an ever-evolving tech environment.
25. Build a high-performance team environment through self-directed teams by driving performance management & measurement.
26. Accountable for the right people in the right teams to deliver on our tech strategy.
27. Manage & Apply the organization risk & governance frameworks.
28. Deliver on time & on budget (always).

Knowledge Skills and Experience Required

1. Extensive experience in Vendor Management.
2. Must have worked on SaaS.
3. Minimum of 5 to 8 years experience in Risk.
4. Team Lead or Scrum Master Experience.
5. Strong stakeholder management.
6. 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.

About the company

Absa Group Limited, and originally Amalgamated Banks of South Africa, is a South African-based financial services group, offering personal and business banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management, as well as...