Stakeholder Management

• Actively promote and manage the collaborative engagement of internal and external stakeholders, including suppliers, clients, service providers, business partners and other Absa entities.

• Collaborate with DE (Data Engineering), ITO and Business Stakeholders to serve as a primary point of engagement for the CAO function for any new/change related activities.

• Ensure that planning and delivery of initiatives align with the organization’s broader vision, architecture, and strategy.

• Develop Hypothesis, Business Cases and Preliminary Documentation to support the approval and initiation of projects within the project portfolio.

• Lead delivery of key strategic initiatives.

• Engage with project teams (Internal and External) on key initiatives.

• Ensure change is effectively transitioned to operations, including hyper-care leadership.

• Advise leadership teams on strategy, operating models, and roadmaps.

• Audit and review use of technologies, with a focus on data, data management, and advanced analytics.

• Strategic expertise and support: Provide expertise, support, and guidance on complex and key strategic change matters, ensuring alignment with business strategy and deep engagement with business stakeholders.

• Change frameworks and standards: Ensure the design, implementation and maintenance of strategic change frameworks and standards against global best practice standards.

Change Programmes

• Oversee strategic change and efficiency programmes and provide guidance and advice where required aligned to the group data strategy.

Compliance and Risk Management

• Fulfil all activities in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements.

Governance

• Oversee the fulfilment of all required governance activities, including change tracking and reporting.

Financial & Vendor Management, Risk & Governance

• Apply the organization risk & governance frameworks.

• Ensure decisions on infrastructure & product design are aligned to chapter & guild guidelines & are sustainable for the enterprise.

• Proactively involve / engage chapter & guild leads in product design & infrastructure decision making, applying an enterprise-wide lens to product & service development.

• Engage in vendor selection processes & understand all related commercial impact.

• Deliver on time & on budget (always).

 Skills: 

• Business needs and value analysis, and discovery skills.

• Complex problem-solving skills.

• Ability to Interpret and present technical designs and architectures.

• Strong demonstration and presentation skills to technical and business audiences.

• Effective verbal and written communication skills.

• Subject matter expertise in data and ML/ AI.

• Awareness of cloud native data and ML/ AI solutions.

Experience: 

• Technical account management, customer engagement and customer success experience

• Relationship management and executive engagement experience.

• Experience with delivery of data related projects at enterprise scale.

• Strategic thinking & foresight in partnering on design of architecture patterns.

Background: 

• Five (5) years as an IT professional with experience delivering on key strategic data initiatives.

• Understanding of the data lifecycle, including data management and governance.

• Data (e.g. analysis, management and governance) and/ or cloud certified.