Systems Engineer Specialist
Johannesburg, ZA
Job Classification
Systems Engineer Specialist - 141714
Closing date: 17 September 2025
Job Family
Career Stream
Leadership Pipeline
Job Purpose
Job Responsibilities
- Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in Nedbank culture building initiatives, business strategy, and CSI
- Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, ensuring personal and professional growth
- Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and values, leading by example
- Identify opportunities to improve or enhance processes, adding value to Nedbank. Ensure adherence to documented procedures by auditing service delivery functions
- Ensure the correct and effective use of system hardware and software
- Resolve issues by inspecting malfunctioning computer hardware, software and/or components - analysing cause, and planning repair procedures
- Recommend solutions through the investigation of service problems
- Support the business process needs by performing and consulting on a variety of technical tasks in the diagnosis, repair, maintenance and installation of computers and/or related equipment
- Ensure documentation for relevant systems software product and operational documents are prepared and maintained
- Approve and recommend actions to be taken and identify those which merit action
- Adhere to organisational process by ensuring standards are implemented and correctly applied when design are reviewed or designed
- Enable decision making and technical reviews
- Ensure contingency during disaster recovery (DR).Provide sustainable solutions per incident by conducting root cause and trend analysis
- Ensure knowledge management, continuity and team success through constructive participation in a diverse team and by sharing knowledge with team
- Maintain a broad knowledge of state of the art technology, equipment and or systems across domains
- Meet the organisation's problem management needs through liaising with suitable vendors
- Build sound professional relationships. Ensure understanding of client needs. Ensure accurate reporting to stakeholders
- Provide advice to junior staff by participating in peer reviews and providing technical mentoring
- Enable recommendations and planning for the tuning of system hardware and software
- Monitor system efficiency against published SLAs
- Recover cost by ensuring time are captured correctly and against correct project
- Ensure end to end project delivery
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
- Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree
Minimum Experience Level
10 years plus exposure to IT environment with minimum of 5 years Systems Engineering.
Technical / Professional Knowledge
- Banking knowledge
- Banking procedures
- Business Acumen
- Business principles
- Business terms and definitions
- Communication Strategies
- Data analysis
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Industry trends
- Microsoft Office
- Principles of financial management
- Principles of project management
- Relevant software and systems knowledge
- Research methodology
- Decision-making process
- Business writing skills
- Relevant regulatory, compliance and risk legislation
- Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
- Information Technology concepts
- System Development Life cycle(SDLC)
- IT Risk and security principes
- ITIL
- Single Operating system
- Application systems
- Computer Hardware & Software
- Specific technology of relevant to domain
- System Enigeering Concepts
- Domain specific utilities
Behavioural Competencies
- Decision Making
- Influencing
- Innovation
- Building partnerships
- Compelling Communication
- Driving for Results
- Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
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Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566