Job Purpose
The incumbent will be responsible to foster research, testing, and incubating of concepts, products, and processes by leveraging on technology to deliver digital products which capture value, enhanced experience and capabilities to our customers.
 
Main Responsibilities:

• Create, evolve, and scale a new method of delivering digital solutions, adopting a lean, fail fast delivery methodology based on Agile principles.
• Play a key role of a change agent responsible to influence peers, leaders within the bank to align, adapt to and use these new methodologies/technologies.
• Innovate from prototyping to testing with an eye towards encouraging speed to market in a dynamic and ever changing environment.
• Create a digital lab which will facilitate nurturing of new ideas into finalized solutions by establishing and drive the technical execution of the digital products.
• Create processes in the lab that are rooted in best practices for continuous improvement and innovation, constantly evolving to meet future business and delivery needs.
• Oversee the build of digital products from technical design to final end solutions within the innovation operating model and framework.
• Ensure that the design and implementation is within the user requirements analytical framework.
• Drive a culture of innovation and bold thinking through rapid test and learn experimentation, while also delivering value for customers and business.
• Design new systems ideas or changes by supplying input for key design and architecture decisions in technological solutions.
• Conduct business and technical impact analysis of proposed application changes and new system design request.
• Coordinate with internal development team on internal developed projects to ensure proper communication to the appropriate teams has been completed and all necessary documentation is in place on new system designs.
• Lead the development of implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business strategy and requirements
• Guide on the effective use of solutions and architectures in order to achieve business outcomes in alignment with business requirements and the overall Enterprise ArchitectureEnsure the development of a high- performing team through embedding performance culture and informal coaching.
• Build and provide coaching to a world class of Core Innovation team.
   

Attributes:

• Business analysis
• Leadership skills
• The ability to work in dynamic conditions, and transition between collaborative and individual work
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with people at all levels
• An interest in multiple disciplines and approaches, and the ability to quickly dive into a new domain or process
• Innovative and creative
• Ability to establish and manage structures, processes and standards
• Strong planning, organization and documentation skills
• Excellent research, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to conceptualize and systematically work through projects in accordance with a structured methodology
• Ability to act as a project "driver", facilitating the achievement of required tasks
• Ability to work effectively within a team
• Coaching, leading and motivating skills
• Ability to prioritize, meet deadlines and work under pressure
   

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field in Computer Science
• Project Management certification as added advantage
• 8-10 years of experience in product or solutions developments and IT leading projects
• 5 years of experience in a managerial role
• Experience in IT leading projects in finance/banking industry will be an added advantage
• Extensive experience with project management/change management