Technical Product Owner/Delivery Lead

Job Classification

TPO-L1(144598)

Closing date: 3 July 2026

Job Family

Career Stream

Leadership Pipeline

Job Purpose

Job Responsibilities

• Assist in defining the operational business requirements of the business (KPI'S, SLA's processes and procedures and reporting ) through translating organisational strategy into functional strategy and assigning accountability to relevant stakeholders
• Effectively manage the delivery of services to the stakeholders by establishing governance forums and by understanding, assessing and managing escalated risks associated with programmes and projects
• Optimise the effectiveness of resources through modelling capacity requirements across full portfolio and by understanding and communicating impact of capacity requirements
• Ensure optimal organising of environment by specifying the nature of capacity requirements in alignment with strategic priority and by actively managing the capacity of the project managers in the team and negotiate where capacity constraints occur
• Ensure end to end design is aligned to architecture road maps by understanding the landscape and through regular engagement with relevant stakeholders
• Ensure effective optimisation of systems, processes and technology by doing route cause analysis and taking corrective measurement and ensuring standards defined per technology with regard to integrations are adhered to
• Take responsibility for implementation of programme and project governance that aligns to project methodologies, processes and project disciplines
• Continuously encourage customer centricity by defining/developing tiered SLA's in order to improve delivery and cost efficiencies
• Define and agree service level of operational and call centre support - including support and maintenance, application health and stability
• Escalate project performance to relevant board  by clearly showing business objectives according to business cases
• Ensure optimal team delivery by considering and making amendments to processes, structures, operating models and business plans
• Ensure transformational target are met  through consideration of targets during the staff recruitment, retention and training process and utilising suppliers listed on the preferred supplier list for department
• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals and support business strategies that improve the corporate image by ensuring self, managers and team participation in Nedbank culture building initiatives
• Participate and ensure managers encourage staff to participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
• Ensure issues raised in culture survey are addressed and results are improved by ensuring action plans are created
• Deliver a world class service through others by ensuring a client centric culture through required interventions.Identify areas of resource inefficiencies and promote optimisation through promoting multi-skilling and addressing capacity gaps by reviewing and improving work processes
• Manage branch budget (recoveries of staff incl) through responsible budget planning and management and by driving efficiencies
• Ensure project execution of the end to end life cycle of all portfolio programmes and projects relating to the implementation of IT projects according to the project methodology and strategy.Ensure successful project delivery by dealing with escalated project issues, non delivery conflicts and integration
• Enhance the credibility of the function by reviewing project metrics and by meeting with the project managers to give direction to project execution
• Successful execution of Innovation and Technical projects through the Project Management Office

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

Matric and relevant tertiary qualification
MMP or equivalent

Essential Certifications

Preferred Certifications

Minimum Experience Level

10 - 15 years experience in an IT environment (across IT disciplines) of which at least 2 years in a feeder area to this role

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies