Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

To shape, plan, lead Portfolio delivery providing expert Engineering skill, directing system capabilities, priorities, resources ensuring solutions are developed,maintained to standards, practices. To synthesize, mature Engineering Practices (Software -; Quality -; Change & Release; DEVOPS) across Portfolio delivery teams (5-12 teams).Lead, manage resources: software -, quality engineers, technical system team (50-80 resources), building capacity, capability, competencies in Engineering team.

Minimum Qualifications
Type of Qualification: Post Graduate Degree
Field of Study: Information Technology

Experience Required
Software Engineering
Technology

3-5 years

• Experience as a senior manager running a portfolio of 10+ technical experts. 

8-10 years

• Proven ability to work effectively as both a team leader and as a member of a small team of technical staff working in an agile development environment.
• Track record in capability and competency building and coaching of staff is required.
• Mentoring and developing technical leaders, with a focus on building a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Driving the adoption of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools to enhance software delivery and operational efficiency.

More than 10 years

• Background of full lifecycle design and development covering solution design, application design, development, testing and maintenance, network software.
• Background of full lifecycle design and development covering operating systems, multi-tier environments, desktop and workgroup software.
• Background of full lifecycle design and development covering middleware, server technology, fault tolerant environments, development tools.
• Experience of application development and data base methodology, programming languages, data base concepts, IT infrastructure and operations.

More than 10 years

• Extensive experience in stakeholder management, with a focus on building strong relationships between technology and business units.
• Skilled in presenting complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences and influencing decision-making at the executive level.
• Knowledge of Agile and Lean frameworks, methods and practices and experience in being a catalyst for organisational change.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams fostering collaboration and team work.
• Exposure to broad business and financial management type experience, specifically within the banking sector.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Articulating Information
• Challenging Ideas
• Developing Expertise
• Developing Strategies
• Embracing Change
• Empowering Individuals
• Examining Information
• Exploring Possibilities
• Interpreting Data
• Making Decisions
• Showing Composure
• Team Working

Technical Competencies:

• Agile Development
• Agile Estimation and Prioritisation
• Agile Measurements
• Agile Planning
• Agile Principles
• Design Patterns
• Refactoring