TPO: NAR Integration

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 both internal integration between core banking, channels, payments, and data platforms as they’re being built, and integration back 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 the integration patterns (API, event-driven, file-based), maintains the integration architecture blueprint and interface catalogue, and sequences build and testing across value streams so each country isn’t reinventing the same interface differently, while ensuring alignment with Group’s existing application and integration standards.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the portfolio of assets, leading the POCLAC - accountable for the final decision making on all asset related matters, including, agreeing to target state versus transition state (technical debt) decisions aligned 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 Nedbank 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 Nedbank'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 managing appropriate risk practices.
• Accountable for the maintenance and prioritisation of the consolidated portfolio backlogs with input from CRM's/BITES, Product Owners and Journey POCLACS.  
• Ensure a stable, resilient and reliable environment to the business; place appropriate emphasis on all matters 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 the specific 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 and information. 
• Measure the effectiveness of differentiated culture plan through staff and client feedback and ensure corrective action plans are developed and implemented.
• Facilitate the adoption of suitable chapter frameworks and drive the adoption of the skill transformation in collaboration with the relevant chapters.
• Ensure economic value is derived from all activities, meeting all jointly agreed POCLAC budget commitments. 
• 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 that match Journey business capability demand, SME/FCI demand, and keeping the assets healthy and competitive. 
• Ensure commercial soundness and relevance through end-to-end Financial Management of the asset value chain. 
• Accountable for the overall health of the asset, which includes Upgrades, Technical Debt monitoring, and planned removal, ITSM practices, Automated pipeline; RSS of application landscape; Monitoring; High Availability & 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 the implementation of innovation efforts according to the agreed organisational methodology and strategy
• Ensure successful innovation and operations delivery.

Job Responsibilities Continue

• Own end-to-end integration architecture and delivery.
• Drive integration between Temenos, Nedbank SA systems and country service providers. 
• Design API, real-time, batch, cloud and on-premise integrations. 
• Build and lead integration teams. 
• Manage Temenos and internal delivery teams. 

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

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

Minimum Experience Level

• 11 Years+ Leading a multidisciplinary virtual team to deliver a technical capability to a large corporate organisation
• 10+ years integration leadership experience. 
• Strong API, middleware, cloud, microservices and enterprise integration knowledge. 
• Banking experience advantageous but not mandatory. 
• Temenos/T24 experience advantageous