Platform Enablement Lead

Job Description

Hello Future Platform Enablement Lead

Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.

As part of our talented team, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change.

To enable platform solutions that are aligned to the FirstRand platform strategic direction and to increase efficiencies, meet regulatory objectives and achieve business value  To leverage work item methodology in designing future state processes which ensure a seamless customer experience having a holistic understanding of the interdependencies between capabilities and work items, ensuring common goals and avoiding duplication

Are You Someone Who Can:

• Build solutions aligned FirstRand strategies related to platform capability
• Build out Enterprise Capabilities ensuring business requirements are catered for
• Provide SME guidance and input into design of Capabilities and work items
• Contribute to the determination of the sequencing of the build and consume journey for enablement
• Remediation of legacy processes and migration onto Platform interfaces to ensure data quality and compliance with regulations
• Obtain a holistic understanding of the interdependencies between capabilities and work items to ensure common goals and avoid duplication
• Balance business benefit versus risk exposure in determining solution approaches or phases
• Translate strategy to ensure alignment to the Capability delivery to achieve maximum benefit
• Contribute to the planning and prioritisation of Work Item delivery in order to enable the consumption of platform enabled work items that meet the objectives of FirstRand
• Engage with Process Owners, Capability leads, Sub Capability leads, Product Houses, IT areas to drive the implementation of Platform enabled processes
• Provide guidance in respect of new requests, requirements, or projects by highlighting the capability impact and possible implementation impact
• Drive and implement the use of the Customer Experience Led Business Development Life Cycle (BDLC) framework to ensure the customer is at the centre of all solutions enabled
• Drive and implement the use of Customer Experience tools to measure feedback and sentiment relating to solutions pre and post implementation
• Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and provide of advice to relevant stakeholders
• Maintain up to date knowledge of local and global trends
• Provide thought leadership and expertise
• Assist with the development of budgets aimed at solution enablement
• Manage the costs of enablement in accordance with actual spend
• Utilise data to understand cost pressure points to feed into solution design and implementation.
• Increase operational efficiency and suggest solutions to enhance cost effectiveness
• Plan, implement, manage, and report on progress, planned delivery and success/improvement of initiatives enabled
• Manage the delivery of the delivery roadmap within Commercial enablement to ensure the achievement of the objectives contained in the Business Strategy
• Manage steercos required to achieve decisions around key business problems and report on progress
• Manage Business and Technical team in terms of delivery.
• Promote the growth of resources in alignment with personal development plans.
• Ensure succession planning and cross skilling is actively being addressed.
• Provide adequate and frequent feedback to employees to promote the growth of employees
• Develop networks and manage stakeholders at varying levels of seniority to achieve objectives set out.

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

Qualification:

• Information Managment / DAMA and / or Certified Information Systesm Security Professional / Pen Tester
• Experience: 5 Years plus with an understanding of:
• Understanding of data structures, data warehouses, data lakes
• Teradata, Big Data Platform (BDP), Cloudera, Ab Initio, PowerBi)
• Data priacy regulations (GDPR, POPI, PCI)
• On prem vs cloud solutions
• Data protection (including AI security, LLM, AI Agents)
• Data pipelines
• Understanding of data structures, data warehouses, data lakes
• Teradata, Big Data Platform (BDP), Cloudera, Ab Initio, PowerBi)
• Data priacy regulations (GDPR, POPI, PCI)
• On prem vs cloud solutions
• Data protection (including AI security, LLM, AI Agents)
• Data pipelines

You Will Have Access To:

• Opportunities to network and collaborate.
• A challenging working environment.
• Opportunities to innovate.

We can be a match if you are: 

• Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough.
• Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it
• Able to unravel complex concepts to ensure your own understanding and the understanding of others
• Self motivated, accountable and respsonsible

Are you interested to take the step? We look forward to engaging with you further. Apply now!

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Job Details

Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.

02/10/25

All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group’s Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfill this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.