Technical Product Owner - Core Banking & Payments Platform

The Focus Group; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

The Focus Group in South Africa seeks an experienced Technical Product Owner for Temenos Core Banking platforms across Africa. You will drive platform configuration, upgrades, and multi-country deployments while ensuring operational stability and alignment with strategic goals.

Lead a technical product team, manage backlogs, and collaborate with vendors and engineering to deliver secure, scalable solutions across subsidiaries.

Qualifications

• Advanced diplomas or first degrees in relevant fields.
• Proven experience leading technical product teams.
• Strong background in portfolio and asset strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead portfolio assets and decide on target vs transition states.
• Translate business strategy into asset strategy and roadmaps.
• Define asset maturation strategy and roadmap with business needs.
• Realise commercial goals and develop a people strategy.
• Build and lead a high-performing cross-functional team.
• Ensure governance, risk controls, and IT security compliance.
• Manage consolidation backlogs with input from multiple stakeholders.
• Plan for disaster recovery and maintain data integrity.
• Drive innovation and end-to-end lifecycle of portfolio assets.

Skills

Product management

Project management

Financial management

Vendor management

Stakeholder management

Governance & risk

Strategy planning

Education

B.Sc Computer Science

B.Com Informatics

Engineering Degrees

Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Job description

The Focus Group in South Africa seeks an experienced Technical Product Owner for Temenos Core Banking platforms across Africa. You will drive platform configuration, upgrades, and multi-country deployments while ensuring operational stability and alignment with strategic goals.

Lead a technical product team, manage backlogs, and collaborate with vendors and engineering to deliver secure, scalable solutions across subsidiaries.