Head, New Solutions at Standard Bank Group

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Planning, designing and developing personalised intelligence engines like NBA and Smart2. Creating, enhancing, optimising and modernising existing solutions towards future-ready applications with new toolsets (e.g., SAS Viya/ESP/MAS/ID, PostgreSQL, Adobe, AWS, cloud-based etc.). Planning, designing and developing new approaches and solutions to replace end-of-life existing ones (e.g., NBA2.0/Smart¬22.0 utilising real-time streaming, near-real time micro-batches, and dynamic content updates), with all necessary components including APIs. Such new solutions expand from personalised customer engagements to transactional monitoring and transactional fraud prevention to assistance in real-time credit decisioning. Enhancing, optimising and modernising intelligence solutions towards future-ready, cloud-based toolsets. Creating personalised intelligence engines as solutions for African countries, where these don’t exist, with subsequent continuous improvement and enhancement.

QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: Post Graduate Degree
• Field of Study: Information Studies or Mathematical Sciences
• 7 years plus experience required
• Solid knowledge of the bank’s IT production and operational environments, data content and structures, data engineering and domains; significant exposure to IT operationalisation and production; proficiency in code, software and IT process operationalisation, combined with sufficiency in the insights and analytics principles and value creation; seasoned knowledge of analytics and business intelligence principles, data intelligence value chain and commercialisation.
• Sound knowledge and experience in business support and core banking operations

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Behavioural Competencies:

• Developing Strategies
• Making Decisions
• Generating Ideas
• Adopting Practical Approaches

Technical Competencies

• Detail Orientation
• Project Management
• Department Performance Management
• Advanced Programming and Computing