Executive: Architecture and Engineering

Absa Group; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Absa Group is seeking a Technology Leader to formulate IT business strategies, manage technology teams, and ensure system reliability. This role involves providing strategic direction, fostering innovation, and ensuring compliance within technology operations. The successful candidate will have a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology and a proven track record in technology leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology required.
• Experience in technology leadership roles preferred.
• Strong knowledge of data management and cybersecurity essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and innovation to technology teams aligned with business strategy.
• Manage technology costs and ensure reliability of systems/applications.
• Lead risk management and compliance initiatives across technology operations.

Skills

Technology Leadership

Team Management

Risk Management

Data Management

Cyber Security

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Job description

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

To formulate an IT business model and strategy in alignment with the overall organisational strategy; contributing to strategy formulation and enabling organisation-wide adoption.

Job Description

Technology Leadership

• Provide Technology leadership, direction, and innovation to the product unit aligned to the business’s strategy.
• Provide product unit’s executive team with the appropriate leadership on trade-offs required to achieve customer outcomes.
• Define world-class strategic architecture and roadmaps.
• Fully integrate into the Product unit’s executive team and commit to agreed business outcomes.
• Provide clear strategic direction to the technology teams you are leading.
• Align and contribute to Technology leadership for the broader firm.

Accountability: Technology People Management

• Manage internal and external resources to achieve outcomes.
• Build diverse, high-performing teams supporting delivery of business outcomes.
• Embed talent management practices and build career paths for team members.
• Ensure teams stay technically current with future skill requirements.
• Maintain overall team health.

Accountability: Stability of systems/applications

• End-to-end accountability for system/application reliability.
• Eliminate single points of failure, optimize processes, monitor services, ensure resilience, and keep applications up to date.

Accountability: Data

• Be the single point of contact on technology-enabled data activities for Product Unit’s Exco.
• Ensure data availability and tools support data-driven insights and value creation.

Accountability: Security/Cyber

• Be the single point of contact for security and cyber activities.
• Ensure secure build of technology and ongoing protection against cyber threats.

Accountability: Technology Cost and Business Management

• Participate in BU Exco for technology spend prioritization.
• Provide affordable, scalable technologies aligned with business goals.
• Innovate and optimize technology costs, manage assets, and vendor relationships.

Accountability: Delivery of new technology Solutions (Changes)

• Enable business transformation through technology delivery.
• Ensure on-time, on-budget delivery of changes.
• Promote digitization and new work methodologies like Agile and DevOps.

Accountability: Risk Management and Compliance

• Foster a culture of risk management and compliance.
• Adhere to policies, proactively manage risks, and resolve audit issues timely.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity employer. Preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups to promote workforce diversity.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to appoint to the advertised post.

About the company

Absa Group Limited, formerly Amalgamated Banks of South Africa, is a South African-based financial services group offering various banking and investment services.

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