Standard Bank Solution Owner Jobs in South Africa
Standard Bank Solution Owner Jobs in South Africa
Job Details
Job Purpose
Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities
Develop and continuously review feature / solution build
• Accountable for the effective build and delivery within agreed timelines of the selected features and solutions in the client journey.
• Understands the IT landscape for the selected journey in order to ensure feasibility of features.
• Facilitates the relationship between feature teams and business leadership / owners, bringing the voice and priorities of the customer to the fore.
• Analyses and interprets the customer and employee data in terms of the feedback received in during the pre- and pilot phase the feature build.
• Continuously ensures that the solution built is aligned to the client journey target state.
• Remains accountable for the client experience as it pertains to the features.
Lifecycle management and maintenance
• Accountable for all run, production and stability lifecycle management and maintenance initiatives across multiple platforms, systems, features (e.g., system outages, operational matters that impact client experience, feature changes, etc.).
• Accountable for the continued financial delivery of the solution (including post implementation).
• Drives platform stability and security of the platforms within the journey – alignment with any other run the bank initiatives that may impact the CJ and makes the relevant trade-off decisions.
• Continually modernises platforms in line with what matters to customers.
Lead teams to deliver features within the client journey
• Effectively lead teams to deliver the solution within the relevant agreed timelines.
• Timeously manages risks and issues that hamper the build and delivery of the solution.
• Prioritises build activities based on business and technical dependencies.
• Effectively manages the flow of the solution build across multiple platforms and systems and entrenches the client journey way of working.
• Ensures the sequencing of the solution build is understood and is a realistic view of the build and delivery of the solution.
• Effectively manages outputs from key stakeholders involved in the solution e.g. UX flow, technical design, UI design, story identification and writing, change management plan, marketing plan, operational metrics, etc.
• Provides accurate and relevant information for input into the business cases.
Deliver solutions across of back, middle and front office and IT systems for the client journey
• Accountable to sequence and prioritise build of the solution in order to deliver against the target state journey aligned to strategic, customer and financial outcomes.
• Works with all relevant internal and external stakeholders to build the appropriate digitised solution in line with what matters to customers as identified by the client focus groups and interviews.
• Ensures the solution prototyping of the UX flow as well as the UI is executed in order for the build to take place.
• Together with IT (e.g., developers) ensures that business objectives are clearly articulated and prioritised for IT build.
• Prioritises the backlog in agreement with the Head, Solution Engineering and ensures that they are actively managed to scope and quality.
• Coordinates and executes the build and delivery of the solution.
Communicate stakeholder needs and align with stakeholders
• Ensures alignment between all stakeholders through effective communication.
• Engages with other Solution Owners within the client journey to ensure alignment.
• Manages the various relationships across all stakeholders that are involved and required to deliver the feature / solution e.g., Compliance, Security Fraud, Audit, etc
• Managers the relationships with all internal stakeholders that are part of the solution.
• Socialises all relevant stakeholders about the solution in order to address any questions and concerns (e.g., risk and compliance).
• Identifies, documents and shares lessons learned with relevant stakeholders to improve knowledge and
• Collaborates with other CJ teams in order to ensure knowledge sharing and building of holistic ecosystem solutions.
• Provides input into Learning and Development (L&D) as required to support the launch of the feature / solution across all channels within SBSA.
Financial outcome
• Ensures delivery of business and customer value through the feature / solution.
• Assists the Viability Analyst to build the feature / solution business cases
• Demonstrates the impact of the delivery of the feature / solution on cost; revenue; customer and NPS.
• Accountable for ensuring the business case is met once the feature / solution is scaled.
• Accountable to continuously track improvements of the feature / solution.
Risk management
• Takes into account existing policies and procedures when building and testing different features / solutions whilst not incurring additional operational, credit and market risk.
• Ensures that the relevant risk and compliance assessments take place at all stages of the solution development. All new processes / changes to the existing process (before being scaled) must be signed off by the different risk and compliance committees (RCC’s) including sign off from the business sponsor (for e.g. OSS). In particular, ensures that relevant risk items are raised at the Product RCC for approval by the Product quorum.
• Accountable for managing the business risk and ensures that the build is aligned to risk and compliance requirements.
Scaling of feature / solution
• Works with the change teams to promote the solution with relevant stakeholders (e.g., RBB and the frontline / digital channels).
• Guides the change and Marketing teams to articulate the solution and marketing initiatives required to promote the solution correctly.
• Analyses and interprets feedback received from customer and staff regarding the solution and ensures necessary actions are taken to address issues (e.g., ensuring requirements are built to address these issues in the next iteration).
• Ensures the adoption of the solution with the necessary adoption measures that will be tracked.
People management
• Manages a team to ensure effective delivery of objectives for the area.
• Develops a high performing team by embedding the bank's performance process, regular performance feedback and coaching. Addresses poor performance.
• Motivates team members and ensures that they receive recognition for work well done.
• Determines development needs of the team and ensures that development opportunities (training, rotation, on-the-job learning) are budgeted for and executed.
• Maintains a succession plan for the team by reviewing the skills of the team at least twice a year and has career conversations with them.
• Interviews and recruits new members of the team, including determining the appropriate salary with input from the Human Capital
Business Partner.
• Creates workforce plans for the area to ensure that current and future business requirements can be met. Such plans should be revisited at least twice a year.
• Uses workforce plans to obtain headcount approvals on an annual basis and as input into the financial budgeting cycles.
• Creates quarterly leave plans to ensure adequate coverage. Approves leave requests and leave sell requests. When required, initiates disciplinary processes for team members. Resolves grievances raised by team members, escalating only if unresolved.
Successful delivery of outputs would be measured as follows:
• Successful delivery of the feature / solution
• Build, scale and adoption of features / solutions in the client journey
• Reduced risk and operational losses.
• Lagging indicators (e.g., ROE, acquisition, etc.)
• Improved NPS and or any customer survey feedback.
• Stakeholder feedback (e.g., internal and external).
• Relevant employee feedback
Preferred Qualification and Experience
Qualifications
Business Commerce Degree
Experience
Knowledge/Technical Skills/Expertise
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