Technical Product Owner

Job Classification
Technical Product Owner (143782)
TA: Luthando Bower
Closing Date: 13 February 2026

Job Family
Information Technology

Career Stream
IT Operations

Leadership Pipeline
Manage Managers (MM)

FAIS Affected

Job Purpose
To guarantee that the relevant application group associated with an asset receives the necessary investment from an architectural runway and health perspective, in alignment with our enterprise objectives (which include pan-African initiatives, Africa Representation Offices, and Offshore entities), ensuring that economic value is extracted from this asset group while maintaining sustainable IT operations.
To ensure the synchronization of the Business and Nedbank IT Strategy and to foster sustainable relationships with business cluster partners, maximizing the value derived from asset capabilities, steering enterprise priorities, and coordinating delivery teams to facilitate innovative execution in line with strategy.
To guide the identification of the long-term strategic technology requirements (Innovation and Support) of the pertinent asset, which encompasses security and infrastructure capabilities.

Job Responsibilities

• Oversee the portfolio of assets, leading the POCLAC - responsible for final decision-making on all asset-related issues, including agreeing on target state versus transition state (technical debt) decisions in accordance with enterprise goals (including pan-African initiatives, Africa Representation Offices, and Offshore entities).
• Ensure alignment with and achievement of strategy while creating a competitive edge by converting the Nedbank and business strategy into an asset strategy.
• Define, uphold, and convey the asset maturation strategy and roadmap in response to journey, asset, and business requirements.
• Assist in achieving the organization’s commercial objectives.
• Develop and implement a people strategy that fosters a culture aligned with the cluster and Nedbank's vision and values.
• Build and sustain a high-performance team by enhancing modern skill sets.
• Ensure the leadership agenda is embraced by the division/function.
• Foster a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to team effectiveness by engaging in the recruitment and selection of senior staff and establishing a robust talent pipeline.
• Promote a culture of transformation by engaging in initiatives related to culture building, business strategy, and CSI.
• Ensure compliance with governance and regulatory requirements by establishing and managing suitable risk practices.
• Responsible for maintaining and prioritizing the consolidated portfolio backlogs with input from CRM's/BITES, Product Owners, and Journey POCLACS.
• Guarantee a stable, resilient, and reliable environment for the business, placing significant emphasis on all matters related to IT Risk, particularly concerning the centralization of IT systems.
• Plan, implement, monitor, and control activities over an Enterprise Disaster Recovery environment for the specific assets assigned to the POCLAC.
• Accountable for the compliance, data integrity, and lineage of the relevant assets.
• Develop and execute a strategy to cultivate a differentiated culture by analyzing pertinent surveys and information.
• Assess the effectiveness of the differentiated culture plan through staff and client feedback and ensure that corrective action plans are developed and implemented.
• Facilitate the adoption of appropriate chapter frameworks and drive skill transformation in collaboration with the relevant chapters.
• Ensure economic value is derived from all activities, fulfilling all mutually agreed POCLAC budget commitments.
• Capitalize on opportunities to create a competitive and commercially viable function.
• Accountable for optimizing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the assets.
• Responsible for an enterprise asset strategy and roadmap, balancing the creation of technical capabilities that align with Journey business capability demands, SME/FCI demands, while keeping the assets healthy and competitive.
• Ensure commercial viability and relevance through comprehensive Financial Management of the asset value chain.
• Accountable for the overall health of the asset, which includes Upgrades, Technical Debt monitoring and removal, ITSM practices, Automated pipeline; RSS of application landscape; Monitoring; High Availability & DR; Data-enabled; Componentized; Cloud-enabled (where applicable); and equipped for all multi-scenario usage.
• Ensure the execution of innovation throughout the end-to-end life cycle of all portfolio innovations related to the implementation of innovation efforts according to the agreed organizational methodology and strategy.
• Ensure successful delivery of innovation and operations.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification
B.Sc Computer Science, B.Com Informatics, Engineering Degrees

Preferred Certifications
Preferred - TOGAF, Leading SAFe, Project Management (PMBok/PMI, Prince II, etc.)

Minimum Experience Level
Total years of experience: 11 years +
Management experience as part of the above years: 6-7 Years
Type of experience: Leading a multidisciplinary virtual team to deliver a technical capability to a large corporate organization

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Product management
• Project Management
• Financial management
• Strategy planning and execution
• Vendor Management Skills
• Stakeholder management
• Governance, Risk, and Controls
• Relevant regulatory knowledge

Behavioural Competencies

• Delegation and Empowerment
• Execution
• Decision Making
• Building Talent
• Customer Focus
• Guiding Team Success
• Leadership Determination
• Driving Innovation

For further assistance, please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566.