Multi - Discipline Specialist - JAVA

Nedbank; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Nedbank is seeking an experienced IT Architect to provide guidance on integrating solutions across technologies, ensuring governance and legislative compliance, and delivering IT leadership based on business acumen.

The role emphasizes both team leadership and hands-on contribution, with a focus on aligning technology strategies to Nedbank's roadmaps and driving end-to-end design improvements across multiple initiatives.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of IT experience in broad infrastructure environments.
• Minimum 2 years in a senior role from feeder areas.
• 8+ years Java experience.
• Accredited certification (JMP or MMP or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Consult and provide advice on the use of multiple technologies and deploy, support and configure them.
• 30% of the responsibilities involve team leadership, while the remaining 70% necessitate a hands-on contribution.
• Develop solutions using knowledge of the technologies.
• Ensure ongoing availability within the SLA requirements.
• Engage with vendors and stakeholders on technology choices.
• Align with IT strategy and architecture roadmaps and drive end-to-end design.
• Upskill stakeholders and lead end-to-end design on projects.
• Document and maintain the end-to-end design and release to stakeholders.
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise and drive transformation.

Skills

Earning Trust

Communication

Decision Making

Initiating Action

Innovation

Work Standards

Technical/Professional Knowledge and

Mentoring

Education

Honours Degree (Professional Qualifications)

Tools

Java

SOA

SDLC

IT Infrastructure Architecture

Risk Management

Regulatory Knowledge

Cluster Knowledge

Banking Knowledge

Project Management

Job description

Job Purpose

To provide guidance and advice related to the integration of solutions across technologies; ensuing all outputs are in compliance with current governance and legislation and provide IT leadership based on IT and business acumen. This role needs two strong candiates to join us.

Job Family

Information Technology

Career Stream

It Technical/Specialists

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Expert

Job Purpose

To provide guidance and advice related to the integration of solutions across technologies; ensuing all outputs are in compliance with current governance and legislation and provide IT leadership based on IT and business acumen. This role needs two strong candiates to join us.

Job Responsibilities

• Consult and provide advice on the use of the multiple technologies. Address the needs of the bank by deploying, supporting and configuring multiple technologies
• 30% of the responsibilities involve team leadership, while the remaining 70% necessitate a hands-on contribution
• Develop solutions using knowledge of the technologies
• Ensure ongoing availability within the SLA requirements
• Ensure maximum exploitation of the multiple technology features across multiple business initiatives.
• Identify further opportunities for use of the technologies
• 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
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems
• Participate in Research and Development related to specific
• Ensure alignment with emerging technologies, and impact on Nedbank technologies and legislative requirements
• Provide problem solving in high impact incidents
• Present to stakeholders on any impact or change to multiple technologies
• Engage with vendors related to multiple technologies
• Meet bank's needs by presenting on the exploitation of the technologies
• Become a trusted consultant by providing trustworthy information and acknowledge if advice cannot be provided
• Expand IP beyond own technology speciality
• Break down components of end to end design and defined logical units of work
• Raise unallocated or missing components of design with project lead. Validate the individual design components and integrate these into end to end design
• Ensure test strategy covers full end to end design
• Provide integration solutions and validate the technical component design
• Review and approve component designs
• Consult on the resolution of high impact problem solving across. Participate in Severities (Sev's) and provide expert guidance and solutions on technical problems
• Provide the application flow
• Document and maintain the end to end design
• Build end to end design and release to stakeholders
• Ensure alignment to IT strategy to architecture roadmaps
• Upskill all stakeholders. Lead end to end design on project
• Ensure awareness of Group Technology initiatives and standards
• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
• Enable skilling and required corrective action to take place by sharing knowledge and industry trends with team
• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes to improve stakeholders' businesses

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree

Essential Certifications

• Accredited where formal expert certification on technology is available JMP or MMP or equivalent

Minimum Experience Level

• 10- 15 years experience in an IT environment across infrastructures of which at least 2 years in a senior role from feeder areas
• 8+ years Java experience

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Banking knowledge
• Business Acumen
• Business writing
• Principles of financial management
• Principles of project management
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Risk management process and frameworks
• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
• Mentoring
• Information Technology concepts
• System Development Life cycle(SDLC)
• Role relevant related technologies
• Service orientated Architecture (SOA)
• IT Solutions Architecture
• IT Infrastructure Architecture
• Knowledge across multiple technologies
• IT Risk and security principes
• Usability and GUI techniques
• Multiple operating system
• Systems Analysis and design

Behavioural Competencies

• Earning Trust
• Communication
• Collaborating
• Decision Making
• Initiating Action
• Innovation
• Work Standards
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at [phone]