Hot Jobs at Standard Bank Group

Job Function

• Accomplish the simplification and automation of current products together with other stake holders to ensure quality and sustainability.
• Advance knowledge to become thought leader with deep insight and knowledge of related business area.
• Analyse and review the existing operating models and structure of business processes/capabilities to ensure that they are optimal from a business and industry perspective, when required.
• Collaborate and engage business, technology, legal and compliance experts, related to CIB Operations offerings to ensure compliance.
• Collaborate with other Product Owners to address shared issues in a similar manner throughout the business, to avoid the duplication of components.
• Collaborate with the Practice Lead, the Scrum Master and team on a regular basis to groom the feature backlog.
• Communicating priorities, objectives/goals, mission and acceptance criteria to the Delivery Teams, to ensure timely delivery.
• Develop and manage delivery roadmaps with client, to ensure delivery will meet their expectations.
• Develop, scope, implement and drive operational and tactical plans translated from strategic plans and target and collaborate with the other Product Owners, to review and integrate multiple offerings, focused on future strategies, directing the focus of the business.
• Direct change management through the conceptualization of the change required in the future architecture, operating model, and organizational structure to support the business imperatives of the division.
• Drive improvement and simplification processes, which is aligned with the CIB Operations Strategy, by understanding and translating the clients' needs into enablers across CIB Operations.
• Drive technology and business and/or strategic projects and offerings, through managing and collaborating with internal and external technology specialists, to improve services and offerings to employees and clients on various technology platforms.
• Drive the successful delivery of products by defining and prioritizing the book of work to streamline the execution of product priorities, while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features.
• Driving collaboration between all stakeholders, by using mandate to prioritize scope (functions/features), to ensure smooth delivery.
• Encourage and develop the implementation of the operational elements of new products into the operational business.
• Investigate best practices across the market with regards to operating models for the applicable business unit.
• Lead, develop, implement, and maintain product service design, by taking client journey per specific product and offering into consideration, ensuring they meet business requirements and make use of standard product components.
• Manage risk by addressing any operational-, financial-, and technological perils identified in the business and brought to the attention of the Solutions Management team.
• Manage, coach, and develop direct and indirect reports, to ensure that the team remains motivated, high performing and efficient role players in achieving operational targets and the Bank's strategic key performance targets.
• Plan and guide the restructuring of the processes, people, and systems, together with Business, People and Culture stakeholders, to meet the required output standards and by doing so, supporting the business in achieving its objectives and strategy.

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: First Degree
• Field of Study: Business Commerce

Experience Required

• Digital & eCommerce, BCC
• Business & Commercial Banking

1-2 years

• Experience in a role responsible for direct management of an operational team.

5-7 years

• Experience in a role that involves applying business management knowledge and expertise, in being accountable for department and team performance, within the parameters of relevant policies, processes and procedures, across various and multiple facets of driving delivery in line with strategy.

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Job Description

• To implement the SBFC entrepreneur partner model across designated outlets for the Lifestyle, Prestige, Middle segment in order to drive profitability.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Degree in Business Commerce / Commercial related 
• Certified Financial Planner / Wealth Management certificate

Minimum Experience:

• 3-4 years Experience in all the product categories in terms of FAIS for SBFC.
• Experience in managing a team of financial planners.
• Experience in FAIS categories

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Job Description

• To scope, plan, design and deliver end to end solutions against required standards and timelines. To oversee and participate in technical solutions delivery, interpreting business requirements, defining technical tasks, engineer quality software, performing end to end testing and supporting and troubleshooting technical questions, software and database issues.
• To lead, manage and mentor Software-; Quality Engineers across identified delivery teams to build and improve Engineering capability.

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: First Degree
• Field of Study: Information Technology

Experience Required

• Software Engineering
• Technology

5-7 years

• Proven ability to work effectively as both a team leader and as a member of a small team of technical staff working in an agile development environment. Track record in capability and competency building and coaching of staff is required. Minimum 1-2 years' experience as a manager running a portfolio of 10+ technical experts

8-10 years

• Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.

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Job Description

• We are seeking a dynamic Senior Specialist, Organisational Effectiveness, who has a passion for people, business strategy, and operating model work to join our Corporate & Investment Banking, People & Culture Centre of Expertise (CoE).
• You will be instrumental in translating our client strategy into the value chain, operating model, capability model, organisational design, job architecture, and ways of working for our people and partners. You will catalyse Corporate and Investment Banking's response and adaptation to industry and client dynamics.
• You will also be responsible for spearheading solutions for designing or re-engineering organisations, driving organisational effectiveness and managing large-scale organisational changes.

Qualifications
Minimum qualifications

• Degree in Behavioural Science / Social Science / Business Commerce.

Experience required

• Minimum 8 -10 years experience in Organisational Effectiveness with evidence to the contribution of the People & Culture practice.
• Ability to partner with business units, corporate functions, and regional teams to understand organisational shifts and translate them into organisational effectiveness strategies.
• Drive the adoption of organisational effectiveness practices, services, and technologies across the organisation.
• Must be able to lead and support organisational effectiveness initiatives across job architecture, design, job evaluation and operating model improvements.
• Deliver data-driven insights and ensure alignment with business needs and CoE strategies.
• Provide expert advisory on organisational effectiveness, operating model, organisational design, change, and transformation initiatives in collaboration with Business Partners.
• Ensure consistency in job grading and levelling to promote equity and parity.
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement and manage internal/external relationships, service providers, and governance processes.
• Review the integrity of people data and systems to inform effective decision-making.

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Job Description

• To develop and own the product roadmaps and guide the development of fit-for-purpose solutions for a product cluster/s. Drive product profitability and ensure risk management execution in alignment with segment value propositions and country strategies.
• To lead and manage the design, development, growth and portfolio management of an allocated product portfolio, to reach business targets, obtain dominant market share & deliver shareholder value while managing the risks aligned to Business and Commercial Banking objectives.

Qualification

• Business Commerce Degree

Experience

• 8-10 years experience in product management by managing multiple products
• Experience in leadership, banking, product knowledge and data interpretation will be beneficial

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Job Description

• To lead, influence and shape the Business Unit (BU) product, segment, sector and coverage Brand and Marketing strategic priorities through partnering with business executive teams to design and recommend a global view of how the BU goes to market (understanding all products and segments to ensure the right decisions are being made when there are competing priorities and trade-offs need to be made).

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: First Degree required
• Field of Study: Business Commerce, Marketing

Experience Required

• Integrated Marketing
• Brand & Marketing

1-2 years

• Strong background in B2B or B2C marketing, with experience in developing and implementing marketing strategies, campaigns, and initiatives in a multi-product, multi-client context, across multiple locations. Familiarity with financial services industry, including relevant banking segment, understanding of market trends, customer behaviour, and competitive landscape.

3-4 years

• Experience working with large scale B2B/B2C global organisations to deliver marketing expertise, leading a team of marketing professionals, including managing workloads, competing priorities, providing guidance, and fostering a collaborative work environment. Experience in managing marketing budgets, including allocating resources effectively to achieve marketing goals and objectives and in managing marketing projects from conception to completion, including planning, execution, and reporting.

5-7 years

• Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements, data-led decision making to deliver demand generation, lead generation and account-based marketing campaigns to enhance the client experience and drive the revenue growth agenda. Product management experience may be beneficial.

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Job Description

• To facilitate the test effort's success by driving quality and test advocacy, resource planning and management, and resolution of issues that impede the test effort.
• To act as a trusted / expert advisor and specialist resource that provides leadership in all quality engineering related activities, including providing guidance on opportunities to improve quality, approach, strategy etc.

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: Diploma
• Field of Study: Information Technology

Experience Required
Software Engineering

• Technology
• 5-7 years
• Proven working experience in software development Life Cycle and testing methodologies.

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Job Description

• Provide infrastructure, tools and frameworks used to deliver end-to-end solutions to business problems. Build scalable infrastructure for supporting the delivery of clear business insights from raw data sources; with a focus on collecting, managing, analysing, visualising data and developing analytical solutions.
• Responsible for expanding and optimising Standard Bank's data and data pipeline architecture, whilst optimising data flow and collection to ultimately support data initiatives.

Qualification:

• Degree in Information Technology or equivalent

Experience:

• Must have experience managing a team for at least 2-3 years.
• 5-7 years experience with big data tools. Must have experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra. 
• Experience with cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift. Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
• Preferred experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.
• 5-7 years strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets. Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management. A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets. Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable 'big data' data stores.
• 5-7 years working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases. Experience building and optimizing 'big data' data pipelines, architectures and data sets. Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Experience with PowerPlatform (Power Apps/Power Flow) advantageous.

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Job Description

• To provide reporting, insights and analytics for a portfolio across multiple products and/or segments across the credit lifecycle (e.g., originations, account management, collections) in order to inform business decision making strategy formulation.
• To enable the business to access and interpret reports and dashboards, and to efficiently and effectively utilise the available reporting toolsTo drive the automation of relevant production reports to ensure efficiency, and accuracy of reports.

Qualifications

• Completed Matric
• Degree in Information Studies
• Degree in Information Technology

Experience

• 5 - 7 years This role requires basic data and information lifecycle experience with some exposure to BI technologies and practices. Good reporting skills; including MS Excel, MS Access, MS Word and/or SQL to access, combine and analyse multiple data sources preferred.

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Job Description

• To design, code, test, debug, and maintain programs in development environments. Apply agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineers result. Work within a strict framework of programming standards under supervision of senior technical resources.

Minimum Qualifications

• BSc Comp Science or related 

Experience Required

• 5-7 years - Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.
• Experience in Kotlin, Compose, Android SDK. 
• Must have worked in an Agile environment.

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Job Description

• To ensure the effective functioning of a Point/s of Representation (POR/s) including operational aspects (e.g., security, cash, etc.) and sales and service matters in line with client experience and laid down requirements. (Applicable where UB I, Cash Consultant I and CLO are present).

Minimum Qualification: 

• NQF Level 5 (FAIS aligned)

Experience Required:

• Client Coverage
• Personal and Private Banking
• 3-4 years relevant experience
• Front line experience in serving customers in order to meet sales and service objectives
• Knowledge of other departments and their functions within a branch

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Job Description

• To oversee a team of Universal Bankers for a Point/s of Representation (POR/s) within client experience, product and laid down requirements to drive sales and service objectives.

Minimum Qualification: 

• NQF Level 5 (FAIS aligned)

Experience Required:

• Client Coverage
• Personal and Private Banking
• 3-4 years Front line experience in serving customers in order to meet sales and service objectives 
• Knowledge of other departments and their functions within a branch

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Job Description

• To grow and retain a portfolio of high-value Premium Segment relationships through partnering for growth using an ecosystem mindset to proactively provide a high-end differentiated service with premium solutions that add value.

Qualifications

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field. (FAIS aligned)
• A master’s degree (MBA) or postgraduate diploma in Business Administration, Finance, or Banking may be advantageous.
• Professional certifications such as Certified Banker (CB), Certified Financial Planner (CFP), or Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) can be a plus.

Work Experience

• 3–7 years of experience in business banking, commercial banking, or corporate banking.
• Proven experience in relationship management, financial advisory, or credit analysis for business clients.
• Experience in lending, credit risk assessment, and structuring financial solutions for business clients.
• Knowledge of SME banking, mid-market banking, or high-net-worth business clients is often required.

Additional Requirements

• A strong network within the local business community is often beneficial.
• Knowledge of digital banking trends and how they impact business clients.
• A track record of meeting or exceeding revenue and portfolio growth targets.

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Job Description

• To design and implement scalable and efficient data pipelines using Microsoft Fabric components such as OneLake, Dataflows Gen2, and Lakehouse. Develop ETL/ELT processes using Azure Data Factory, PySpark, Spark SQL, and Python. Ensure data quality, integrity, and security across all platforms. Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver technical solutions.
• Optimize data workflows and troubleshoot performance issues. Support hybrid cloud deployments and integrate on-premises and cloud environments while maintaining documentation and following best practice in data engineering, including version control and modular code design.

Qualifications

• Bsc Computer Science or Information Technology as well as Microsoft certification in Azure Data Engineering or Microsoft Fabric
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a Data engineering role with strong hands-on experience in Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse, Azure SQL, and Databricks
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, and Power BI
• Solid understanding of data modelling, data governance, and data warehousing
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, or machine learning workflows is a plus.

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Job Description

• To attend to any cash related matter (e.g., walk-in customers, ATM's) whilst forming an accurate assessment and understanding of that demand in order to act on it in a manner that consistently delivers in line with client experience and laid down requirements.

Minimum Qualification: 

• NQF Level 5 

Experience Required:

• Client Coverage
• Personal and Private Banking
• 1-2 years branch banking experience, understanding the bank's laid-down policies and procedures related to telling / frontline support; bulk cash and ATMs
• Familiar with the legal aspects regarding cash handling
• Knowledge of other departments and their functions within a branch.