Technical Product Owner

Job Classification

Technical Product Owner Req: 142631

Closing Date: 5 November 2025

Job Family

Information Technology

Career Stream

IT Operations

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Managers (MM)

Job Purpose

To create, govern, maintain and continuously enhance the technical interoperability layer platform - driving innovation and run the bank activities in an end-to-end ownership of the platform.  This includes owning full stack teams, applications and the funding for innovation execution as well as vendor related activities.  In alignment, build out the requisite skills to maintain the technology stack in a sustainable manner.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the platform, leading the squads - accountable for the final decision making on all platform 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 platform strategy and execution runway
• Define, maintain, and communicate the platform maturation strategy and roadmap in response to journey, asset and business needs
• Assist in realising the commercial goals of the platform
• Develop and introduce a people strategy that will create a culture that drives the platform 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 platform
• Accountable for an enterprise asset strategy and roadmap, balancing creating technical capabilities that match 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

Preferred Qualification

B.Sc Computer Science, B.Com Informatics, Engineering Degrees

Preferred Certifications

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

Behavioural Competencies

• Compelling communication
• Building Customer Relationships /Balances Stakeholders
• Inspiring Excellence
• Driving Innovation
• Thriving in Ambiguity
• Personal Growth Orientation
• 360° Decision Making
• Delegation and Empowerment
• Execution
• Building Talent
• Leadership Determination