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Senior Manager: SAS AND Ab initio

  • South Africa
  • Salary: Market Related
  • Job Type: Permanent
  • Sectors: Banking
  • Reference: 143485

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Employer: Nedbank Head Office

Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Specialist REQ 144385 - Keabetswe Modise Closing Date: 16 Jan 2026 Recruiting for 2 Roles Job Family Information Technology Career Stream IT Application Development Leadership Pipeline Manage Managers Job Purpose To manage (end to end) the strategy; planning; organising; negotiating; staffing directing and controlling of all aspects of projects or programmes for a portfolio in ensuring the successful implementation of IT Projects and to realise the business cluster strategy. Provides expert advice and counsel to functional/ and non-functional user personnel and project teams on the most complex aspects of integration of logical groupings of technologies. To facilitate agreed solution and ensure the solution meets business requirements with minimal impact to the stability of the IT environment. Job Responsibilities
* Assist in defining the operational business requirements of the business (KPI'S, SLA's processes and procedures and reporting) through translating organisational strategy into functional strategy and assigning accountability to relevant stakeholders
* Effectively manage the delivery of services to the stakeholders by establishing governance forums and by understanding, assessing and managing escalated risks associated with programmes and projects
* Optimise the effectiveness of resources through modelling capacity requirements across full portfolio and by understanding and communicating impact of capacity requirements
* Ensure optimal organising of environment by specifying the nature of capacity requirements in alignment with strategic priority and by actively managing the capacity of the project managers in the team and negotiate where capacity constraints occur
* Ensure end to end design is aligned to architecture road maps by understanding thel and scape and through regular engagement with relevant stakeholders
* Ensure effective optimisation of systems, processes and technology by doing route cause analysis and taking corrective measurement and ensuring standards defined per technology with regard to integrations are adhered to take responsibility for implementation of programme and project governance that aligns to project methodologies, processes and project disciplines
* Continuously encourage customer centricity by defining/developing tiered SLA's in order to improve delivery and cost efficiencies
* Define and agree service level of operational and call centre support - including support and maintenance, application health and stability
* Escalate project performance to relevant board by clearly showing business objectives according to business cases
* Ensure optimal team delivery by considering and making amendments to processes, structures, operating models and business plans
* Ensure transformational target are met through consideration of targets during the staff recruitment, retention and training process and utilising suppliers listed on the preferred supplier list for department
* Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals and support business strategies that improve the corporate image by ensuring self, managers and team participation in Nedbank culture building initiatives
* Participate and ensure managers encourage staff to participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
* Ensure issues raised in culture survey are addressed and results are improved by ensuring action plans are created
* Deliver a world class service through others by ensuring a client centric culture through
* required interventions.
* Identify areas of resource inefficiencies and promote optimisation through promoting multi-skilling and addressing capacity gaps by reviewing and improving work processes
* Manage branch budget (recoveries of staff incl) through responsible budget planning
* and management and by driving efficiencies
* Ensure project execution of the end to end life cycle of all portfolio programmes and
* projects relating to the implementation of IT projects according to the project methodology and strategy.
* Ensure successful project delivery by dealing with escalated project issues, non-delivery conflicts and integration
* Enhance the credibility of the function by reviewing project metrics and by meeting with the project managers to give direction to project execution
* Successful execution of Innovation and Technical projects through the Project Management Office Key Responsibilities
* Day to day management of a team of 5-6 resource
* Support the nWOW way of working and adopt an AGILE way of workin
* Lead and drive performance and optimisation challenges in the environment -own ddrive the Network Flattening deliverable
* Accountable for platform health, agile delivery, total cost of ownership (TCO), and talent management, while ensuring the platform continues to enable business outcomes at scale. Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
* Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
* Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees Preferred Certifications Ab Initio Product Knowledge: GDE, Co>Operating system, Express>It. Batch and real-time data processing concepts, Metadata-driven development. Scheduling tool (control-M)
* SAS Enterprise Guide / VIYA / Visual Investigator / 9.4 Minimum Experience Level
* 7 - 10 years experience in an IT environment (across IT disciplines) of which at least 2 years in a feeder area to this role
* In depth SAS product knowledge: BASE SAS / SAS 9.4 and SAS VIYA
* In depth Ab initio, DB2, DINIDO, NETEZZA
* Cloud knowledge
* MS AZURE / Dev OPS certification
* Be familiar with network constructs Technical / Professional Knowledge
* Budgeting
* Business administration and management
* Change management
* Client service management
* Communication Strategies
* Diversity management
* Employee training/development
* Financial Accounting Principles
* Governance, Risk and Controls
* Principles of project management
* Relevant regulatory knowledge
* Stakeholder management
* Strategic planning
* Talent management
* Workforce planning
* Business writing skills
* Management information and reporting principles, tools and mechanisms
* System Development Life cycle(SDLC)
* ITIL
* IT Architecture
* General Communication Skills
* Joint application development
* Organisational structure
* Influencing
* IT Assets management processes Behavioural Competencies
* Building Partnerships
* Facilitating Change
* Inspiring others
* Business Acumen
* Building partnerships
* Driving for Results
* Selecting Talent

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About Nedbank Head Office

 Money may be our backbone, but excellence is our culture. And diversity, our true driving force. We believe in creating a working environment that enables our people to help us bring our values to life. And to do so, we don’t just aim to acknowledge our differences but to celebrate them as the very mix we need to continue being the difference that enhances lives beyond banking. For this reason, our people are very important to us… Every single one of them in the financial, technological, legal, administrative, creative, hospitality or operational space. Each one of them, is our mirror. They are our reason to want to do better. And our reminder that we are in the service of others. Nedbank’s culture is embedded on values that promote accountability, a strong focus on meeting client needs, and on building a positive brand image.

 

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