Platform Enablement Lead at FNB South Africa

• To enable platform solutions that are aligned to the FirstRand platform strategic direction and to increase efficiencies, meet regulatory objectives and achieve business value.
• To leverage work item methodology in designing future state processes which ensure a seamless customer experience having a holistic understanding of the interdependencies between capabilities and work items, ensuring common goals and avoiding duplication

Are you someone who can:

• Build solutions aligned FirstRand strategies related to platform capability
• Build out Enterprise Capabilities ensuring business requirements are catered for
• Provide SME guidance and input into design of Capabilities and work items
• Contribute to the determination of the sequencing of the build and consume journey for enablement
• Remediation of legacy processes and migration onto Platform interfaces to ensure data quality and compliance with regulations
• Obtain a holistic understanding of the interdependencies between capabilities and work items to ensure common goals and avoid duplication
• Balance business benefit versus risk exposure in determining solution approaches or phases
• Translate strategy to ensure alignment to the Capability delivery to achieve maximum benefit
• Contribute to the planning and prioritisation of Work Item delivery in order to enable the consumption of platform enabled work items that meet the objectives of FirstRand
• Engage with Process Owners, Capability leads, Sub Capability leads, Product Houses, IT areas to drive the implementation of Platform enabled processes
• Provide guidance in respect of new requests, requirements, or projects by highlighting the capability impact and possible implementation impact
• Drive and implement the use of the Customer Experience Led Business Development Life Cycle (BDLC) framework to ensure the customer is at the centre of all solutions enabled
• Drive and implement the use of Customer Experience tools to measure feedback and sentiment relating to solutions pre and post implementation
• Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and provide of advice to relevant stakeholders
• Maintain up to date knowledge of local and global trends
• Provide thought leadership and expertise
• Assist with the development of budgets aimed at solution enablement
• Manage the costs of enablement in accordance with actual spend
• Utilise data to understand cost pressure points to feed into solution design and implementation.
• Increase operational efficiency and suggest solutions to enhance cost effectiveness
• Plan, implement, manage, and report on progress, planned delivery and success/improvement of initiatives enabled
• Manage the delivery of the delivery roadmap within Commercial enablement to ensure the achievement of the objectives contained in the Business Strategy
• Manage steercos required to achieve decisions around key business problems and report on progress
• Manage Business and Technical team in terms of delivery.
• Promote the growth of resources in alignment with personal development plans.
• Ensure succession planning and cross skilling is actively being addressed.
• Provide adequate and frequent feedback to employees to promote the growth of employees
• Develop networks and manage stakeholders at varying levels of seniority to achieve objectives set out.

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

Qualification:

• Information Managment / DAMA and / or Certified Information Systesm Security Professional / Pen Tester

Experience: 5 Years plus with an understanding of:

• Understanding of data structures, data warehouses, data lakes
• Teradata, Big Data Platform (BDP), Cloudera, Ab Initio, PowerBi)
• Data priacy regulations (GDPR, POPI, PCI)
• On prem vs cloud solutions
• Data protection (including AI security, LLM, AI Agents)
• Data pipelines

End Date: October 2, 2025