Technical Product Owner: Juristic Credit at Nedbank

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 modern.  In 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 Nedbank's 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

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
• Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree

Preferred Qualification

• B.Sc Computer Science, B.Com 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

• Technical skills
• Product management
• Project Management
• Financial management
• Strategy planning and execution
• Vendor Management Skills
• Stakeholder management
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Relevant regulatory knowledge

Behavioural Competencies

• Delegation and Empowerment
• Execution
• Decision Making
• Building Talent
• Customer Focus
• Guiding Team Success
• Leadership Determination
• Driving Innovation

Deadline:28th July,2025