Integration Specialist/Architect

Golden Rule; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Nedbank Group seeks a System Integration TPO to own end-to-end integration architecture and delivery for our core banking and channel modernisation programme. You will govern integration patterns, blueprint maintenance, and testing across value streams to ensure consistency across subsidiaries within Nedbank Group’s landscape.

You will lead asset strategy, roadmap development, risk and governance, and drive cost efficiency while building high-performing teams and modernised pipelines.

Qualifications

• 11+ years of experience in systems integration or architecture.
• 6-7 years of management experience.
• Experience leading a multidisciplinary virtual team to deliver a technical capability.
• Experience within a large corporate environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the portfolio of assets and the POCLAC, making final asset-related decisions.
• Translate strategy into an asset strategy aligned to objectives.
• Define and communicate asset maturation strategy and roadmap.
• Ensure commercial goals and economic value across the asset portfolio.
• Develop a high-performance team and talent pipelines.
• Drive adoption of leadership agenda and relevant frameworks.
• Establish risk, governance and compliance practices, including data lineage.
• Maintain consolidated portfolio backlogs with inputs from stakeholders.
• Ensure a stable, resilient IT environment with centralized systems.
• Plan and control Enterprise Disaster Recovery activities.
• Optimise total cost of ownership and financial management of asset value chain.
• Own the enterprise asset strategy and roadmap balancing demand and health.
• Maintain asset health through upgrades, debt management, and cloud enablement.
• Drive asset innovation across end-to-end lifecycle.

Education

Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

B.Sc Computer Science

B.Com Informatics

Engineering Degrees

Tools

TOGAF

Leading SAFe

PMBOK/PMI

Prince II

Job description

Job Purpose

The System Integration TPO owns the end-to-end integration architecture and delivery for the NAR core banking and channel modernisation programme, acting as the single point of accountability for how Temenos connects to the surrounding technology estate across all five subsidiaries. This spans internal integration between core banking, channels, payments and data platforms, as well as integration into the broader Nedbank Group application landscape, including Group finance, risk, data warehousing, CRM and other shared enterprise services that NAR depends on or feeds into. The Lead defines and governs integration patterns (API, event-driven and file-based), maintains the integration architecture blueprint and interface catalogue, and sequences build and testing across value streams to ensure consistency across countries and alignment with Group's existing application and integration standards.

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Job Responsibilities

• Lead the portfolio of assets and the POCLAC, accountable for final decisions on asset-related matters, including target versus transition state and technical debt, aligned to enterprise aspirations.
• Translate Nedbank and business strategy into an asset strategy, ensuring alignment, competitive advantage and achievement of strategic objectives.
• Define, maintain and communicate the asset maturation strategy and roadmap in response to business, journey and asset needs.
• Ensure commercial goals are supported and economic value is derived across the asset portfolio.
• Develop a high-performance team through modernised skills, effective talent pipelines, recruitment, leadership and continuous improvement.
• Drive the adoption of the leadership agenda, culture, transformation and relevant chapter frameworks and skills strategies.
• Establish and manage appropriate risk, governance and compliance practices, including data integrity and lineage.
• Maintain and prioritise consolidated portfolio backlogs with input from CRM/BITES, Product Owners and Journey POCLACs.
• Ensure a stable, resilient and reliable environment, with appropriate focus on IT risk and the centralisation of IT systems.
• Plan, execute, monitor and control Enterprise Disaster Recovery activities for assigned assets.
• Optimise the total cost of ownership (TCO) and ensure sound end-to-end financial management of the asset value chain.
• Own the enterprise asset strategy and roadmap, balancing business capability demand, SME/FCI requirements and asset health and competitiveness.
• Maintain overall asset health through upgrades, technical debt management, planned removal, ITSM practices, automated pipelines, application landscape management, monitoring, high availability, disaster recovery, data enablement, componentisation and cloud enablement where appropriate.
• Drive asset innovation across the end-to-end lifecycle in line with the agreed organisational methodology and strategy.
• Ensure successful innovation and operational delivery.
• Measure the effectiveness of culture initiatives through staff and client feedback, implementing corrective actions where required.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

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

Preferred Certifications

• Preferred - TOGAF, Leading SAFe, Project Management (PMBOK/PMI, Prince II, etc.)

Minimum Experience Level

11+ years of experience 6-7 years of management experience 11+ years leading a multidisciplinary virtual team to deliver a technical capability to a large corporate organisation