Standard Bank Practice Lead - Infrastructure & Operations Jobs in South Africa
Standard Bank Practice Lead - Infrastructure & Operations Jobs in South Africa
Job Details
Job Purpose
Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities
Responsible for constructing the teams within the practice
• Ensures a common sense of purpose by establishing the vision, intent and desired outcomes of the practice.
• Hires skilled managers and top class technical experts (architects, software engineers, operations engineers, etc.).
• Ensures an appropriate supply of technical experts to fill available positions in the delivery portfolios (SAFe Portfolio, Program and Team levels).
• Builds relationships with the team, partners and the broader industry.
Management of the teams specifically through Performance management and career development
• Continually improves his/her own technical acumen and remains closely connected to changes in industry practices.
• Provides support in the form of training, mentoring, coaching, etc. for practice team members to allow them to attain mastery in their craft.
• Provides opportunities for team members to acquire adjacent skills (“T-shaped employees”) and actively drives cross skilling as a strategic initiative.
• Sets measurable goals and objectives and provides explicit guidance w.r.t. performance expectations.
• Measures performance continually (using feedback from a wide variety of sources) and provides honest and objective feedback to team members on a regular basis.
• Sets clear expectations for the achievement of quality goals.
• Encourages autonomy of decision making within clearly defined boundaries.
• Ensures that team members are rewarded fairly within the context of experience, performance and personal contribution.
Build and improve capability to ensure effectiveness of the practice against industry
• Through collaboration with team members, industry, community, subject matter experts, research houses, etc. establishes and continually
• Ensures that Security forms an integral part of all practice capabilities.
• Works with key stakeholders (e.g., Product managers) to ensure that work required to instantiate practice goals and objectives is properly prioritised and inserted into Portfolio/Program/Team backlogs.
• Has extreme focus on building capability that produces predictable, reliable and sustainable solutions. “Everything under version control” & “Automate all things”.
• Drives a culture of relentless improvement.
• Regularly assesses the effectiveness of the practice against industry leaders.
• Does presentations at industry functions and actively contributes to the industry body of knowledge.
• Encourages the use of rituals and habits that help shape the effectiveness of the practice.
• Creates Guilds (“communities of practice”) to encourage in-and-across-practice collaboration, information sharing, etc.
Drives the effective management of the Financials
• Lead and drive initiatives around benefits realisation related to the overall practice/functions landscape.
• Formulate and gain acceptance for annual revenue and capital budgets for the business unit/practice
• Monitor budgets against expenditure and mange IT costs in line with organisational parameters
• Ensure necessary transparency and controls are in place regarding expenditure within the function/practice
• Sets the strategy for the practice/functions resource management to respond to business priorities cost effectively.
• Authorise at functional level the allocation of resources for the planning, development and delivery, as appropriate, of services and products
Manages all Audits, Risks & Compliance requirements to ensure adherence to regulations
• Crafts a risk management plan for the practice (incl. business continuity).
• Implements requisite risk elimination / mitigation solutions and continually tracks risks and issues.
• Works with partners from Group Information Security to ensure that best practice security standards are embedded into all practice capabilities.
• Ensures that practice capability (process, methods, tools, etc.) are compliant with Internal Audit requirements.
Preferred Qualification and Experience
Qualifications:
• Degree in IT and Computer Sciences
• Agile Software development methodologies and associated practices such as Continuous Integration, Software Defined Infrastructure, Evolutionary Architecture, etc.
Experience:
• 7-10 years solid experience in working in a multi discipline team fostering collaboration and team work.
• 3-4 Years Commercial management consulting experience.
• 7-10 years Banking industry knowledge covering Personal and Business Banking as well as Corporate Banking; Regulatory and Compliance requirement understanding
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