Digital Platforms Head

Standard Bank of South Africa Limited; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Johannesburg seeks an experienced candidate to lead the management of digital platforms for Consumer and High Net Worth clients. This role requires 8-10 years of experience in digital and eCommerce, a strong grasp of integration and leadership, and the ability to ensure platforms consistently deliver excellent client experiences. Candidates with a First Degree in Business Commerce or Information Technology are preferred.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years experience in Digital & eCommerce, particularly with CHNW clients.
• Deep understanding of platform integration for digital sales growth.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver client solutions.

Responsibilities

• Oversee audit findings and implement corrective actions.
• Ensure digital platforms deliver exceptional client experiences.
• Modernize platforms in alignment with customer needs.

Skills

Digital platforms understanding

E-Commerce integration

Leadership

Agile concepts

Banking regulations knowledge

Education

First Degree in Business Commerce

First Degree in Information Technology

Job description

Business Segment: Personal & Private Banking

Location: ZA, GP, Johannesburg, 30 Baker Street

To implement, enable, maintain, scale, secure, entrench, engage and commercialise the digital platforms and functionality for Consumer and High Net Worth (CHNW) Clients in country in alignment with platform enablers; Innovation, overall segment value proposition and life journeys. To the vision and implementation of interventions to ensure that digital platforms are always on, always secure and consistently deliver an exceptional client experience.

Essential Functions

• Accountable for addressing and closing out audit findings within agreed timelines
• Accountable for implementing measures (leading and lagging) and measuring platform performance on an ongoing basis
• Accountable for the effective delivery of changes to digital platforms within agreed timelines
• Accountable to define, build and scale capabilities required to ensure that digital platforms are always on, always secure,scalable and consistently offer an excellent client experience.
• Capabilities, and engineering practices, that optimize platformresilience and stability
• Analyses and interprets feedback received from customer and staff regarding enhancements to digital platforms and ensuresnecessary actions are taken to address issues (e.g., ensuring requirements are built to address these issues in the nextiteration).
• Collaborate with security engineering and IT Security and fraud risk management of reduce bank and client losses by designing,building and optimising security and fraud capabilities for digital platforms, including foundational APIs
• Continually modernises platforms in line with what matters to customers
• Creates quarterly leave plans to ensure adequate coverage. Approves leave requests and leave sell requests
• Creates workforce plans for the area to ensure that current and future business requirements can be met. Such plans should berevisited at least twice a year.
• Defines the Digital Platform vision, outcomes and communicates such to all relevant stakeholders.
• Demonstrates the impact of delivering enhancements to digital platforms; on cost; revenue and client experience.
• Determines development needs of the team, ensuring they are future-ready. Ensures that development opportunities (training,rotation, on-the-job learning) are budgeted for and executed.

Qualifications

Type of Qualification: First Degree

Field of Study: Business Commerce

Type of Qualification: First Degree

Field of Study: Information Technology

Experience Required

Digital & eCommerce, CHNW

Personal and Private Banking

8-10 years

Experience and understanding of digital platforms enabling other value streams teams to deliver with substantial autonomy (platforms as a product).

More than 10 years

Experience in understanding integration of digital and eCommerce sales growth around products, solutions and go-to market plans. Experience in the development, design and enablement of Digital and eCommerce value propositions that work for Consumer & HNW clients. Strong understanding of digital, open banking and platform integration into a segment. Experience in leading, integrating and delivering client solutions through multi-disciplinary teams.

Additional Information

• Challenging Ideas
• Developing Expertise
• Developing Strategies
• Directing People
• Empowering Individuals
• Exploring Possibilities
• Making Decisions
• Providing Insights
• Resolving Conflict
• Taking Action
• Agile Concepts
• Conducting Research
• IT Systems
• Knowledge of Banking & Financial Service