IT Manager III at Nedbank

Job Purpose

• To build management foundation and to deliver operational excellence and productivity through a team of team leaders and technology managers.

Job Responsibilities

•  Create a simplified low-cost IT DBA operating platform.
•  Deliver promised results through ensuring that DBA plans are approved and accepted.
•  Manage Dba resources in executing and achieving business strategy and associated metrics.
•  Optimise value add through identifying and managing risks arising from own department.
•  Support standardised delivery processes by ensuring business area comply with standards, policy and regulatory requirements.
•  Improve delivery capabilities and capacity. 
•  Improve DBA productivity and smooth day-to-day operations.
•  Make quality and timeous decisions.
•  Deliver best practice services, to meet and exceed client expectations in support of strengthened business IT collaboration.
•  Monitor and manage client, service providers, partners, vendors and other stakeholder expectations.
•  Support improved delivery capabilities.
•  Attend all Change Control meetings, understand impacts.
•  Ensure integrity in actions through building trust and respect.
•  Provide management support to 2 Nedbank Mainframe DBA teams
  •     Nedbank DB2 Mainframe Dba team. 
  •     Nedbank Outsourced DBA Mainframe team supporting the Old Mutual account IDMS/DB2/Object Star Databases.
•  Ensure all SLA’s are met within both accounts.
•  The Nedbank DBA management includes all platforms DEV/ETE/QA and Prod at  Dba Object management and Applications support.
•  The Old Mutual DBA Management is ONLY at Database object level from QA and Prod. OM have their own local applications DBA’s. Nedbank do not provide applications support on the OM account.
•  All changes managed by DBA’s must conform to approved change control.
•  Aware of Nedbank CLOUD journey and mission

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate

Preferred Qualification

• Role Relevant Tertiary Qualification

Minimum Experience Level

• 10+ years IT Operations Experience and 8-10 years Job Relevant 

Types of Exposures

•  IBM Mainframe technologies,
•  Dba concepts
• Dba performance concepts 
• Cloud Concepts

Technical/Professional Knowledge

•  Governance, Risk and Controls
•  Organisational behaviour theory
•  Principles of project management
•  Relevant regulatory knowledge
•  Stakeholder management
•  Strategic planning
•  Talent management
•  Business writing skills
•  Management information and reporting principles, tools and mechanisms
•  Client Service Management

Behavioural Competencies

• Building Partnerships
• Customer Focus
• Decision Making
• Facilitating Change
• Inspiring others
• Business Acumen
• Building Organizational Talent
• Compelling Communication