Technical Product Owner -T24 Core Banking, Credit, Card & Payments

The Focus Group

Sandton

On-site

ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000

Full time

9 days ago

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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

Job Purpose

The role owns end-to-end technical product ownership for Temenos Core Banking, Credit, Card & Payments, ATM & POS, reporting to the Africa Regions CIO. The role spans platform configuration and integration through to release management and operational stability, ensuring these systems support the bank’s transformation, growth, and straight-through processing ambitions across multiple markets. You will work with a multi-disciplinary team and partners to deploy Africa Regions new core technology platform.

Key focus areas

Accountable for delivery of the first platform deployment, setting the standard and playbook for future country rollouts
Technical ownership of the T24 core banking platform, including configuration, upgrades, and multi-country deployment
Product ownership across credit, card & payments, and ATM/POS technology stacks inherent on Temenos. Strong collaboration required when leveraging enterprise assets and platforms.
Driving platform integration and straight-through processing between core banking and surrounding systems
Managing the technical backlog, release planning, and delivery in partnership with vendors and internal engineering teams
Building and leading a technical product team, providing direction, coaching, and capability development
Ensuring platform stability, performance, and compliance across all subsidiaries
Partnering with business and channel teams to translate commercial requirements into technical delivery

Job Responsibilities

Lead the portfolio of assets, leading the POCLAC - accountable for the final decision making on all assetcrelated matters, including, agreeing to target state versus transition state (technical debt) decisioncsaligned to enterprise aspirations (including pan-African, Africa Representation Offices and Offshore entities)
Ensure alignment and achievement of strategy and create a competitive advantage by translating the company and business strategy into an asset strategy.
Define, maintain, and communicate the asset maturation strategy and roadmap in response to journey, asset and business needs.
Assist in realising the commercial goals of the organisation.
Develop and introduce a people strategy that will create a culture that drives the cluster and company's vision and values.
Build a sustainable high-performance team by developing modernised skill sets.
Ensure the leadership agenda has been embraced by the division/function.
Build a culture of excellence/continuous improvement.
Contribute to team effectiveness by participating in the recruitment and selection of senior staff and building a proper talent pipeline.
Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in culture building initiatives, business strategy,and CSI.
Ensure alignment to governance and compliance requirements through establishing and managingappropriate risk practices.
Accountable for the maintenance and prioritisation of the consolidated portfolio backlogs with input fromCRM's/BITES, Product Owners and Journey POCLACS.
Ensure a stable, resilient and reliable environment to the business; place appropriate emphasis on allmatters relating to IT Risk, specifically with respect to the centralisation of IT systems
Plan, execute, monitor and control activities over an Enterprise Disaster Recovery environment for thespecific assets assigned to the POCLAC.
Accountable for the compliance and data integrity and lineage of the applicable assets.
Develop and implement a strategy to build a differentiated culture by analysing relevant surveys andinformation.
Measure the effectiveness of differentiated culture plan through staff and client feedback and ensurecorrective action plans are developed and implemented.
Facilitate the adoption of suitable chapter frameworks and drive the adoption of the skill transformation incollaboration with the relevant chapters.
Ensure economic value is derived from all activities, meeting all jointly agreed POCLAC budgetcommitments.
Leverage opportunities to create a competitive and commercially successful function.
Accountable for the optimising the TCO of the assets.
Accountable for an enterprise asset strategy and roadmap, balancing creating technical capabilities thatmatch Journey business capability demand, SME/FCI demand, and keeping the assets healthy andcompetitive.
Ensure commercial soundness and relevance through end-to-end Financial Management of the assetvalue chain.
Accountable for the overall health of the asset, which includes Upgrades, Technical Debt monitoring, andplanned removal, ITSM practices, Automated pipeline; RSS of application landscape; Monitoring; HighAvailability & DR; Data enabled; Componentised; Cloud enabled (where fit); & equipped for all multi-scenario usage.
Ensure asset innovation execution of the end-to-end life cycle of all portfolio innovation relating to theimplementation of innovation efforts according to the agreed organisational methodology and strategy
Ensure successful innovation and operations delivery.