Lead Card Modernization & Growth - Johannesburg
- Location
- Johannesburg, Gauteng
- Minimum qualification
- Bachelor's degree
- Closing date
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In brief
**Job Title**: Lead Card Modernization & Growth - Johannesburg **Company**: ABSA **Overview** This role at Absa Group Limited is for an experienced Card Transformation Lead to drive large-scale card, payments, banking, and fintech transformation. The successful candidate will lead business and technology change programmes, including enterprise platform implementation, digital capability build-out, and platform modernisation within a highly regulated financial services environment. It requires a strategic leader capable of translating business objectives into an executable roadmap, aligning senior stakeholders, managing delivery risk, and ensuring transformation outcomes support customer experience, scalability, integration, commercial value, and sustainable growth. This position offers the opportunity to shape the future of card and digital banking through strategic transformation, technology-led innovation, and measurable customer and commercial outcomes. **What you will do** * **Strategic leadership:** * Provide strategic thought leadership to shape and execute business-led transformation across the card and digital payments value chain. * Ensure an understanding of card and digital payment processes and practices to drive strategic vision and alignment across the value chain. * Define and manage the programme vision, strategy, and roadmap, translating them into clear delivery plans, objectives, budgets, timelines, and measurable outcomes. * **Programme delivery and business outcomes:** * Lead the design and execution of the Card Modernisation transformation programme. * Ensure business value, customer experience, scalability, integration, and commercial objectives are clearly defined, validated, and achieved. * Drive outcomes that support investment, improve customer experience, and contribute to sustainable growth for the card division. * **Stakeholder, vendor and commercial management:** * Build alignment and consensus across internal and external stakeholders. * Support commercial negotiations and contracting activities where required. * Hold vendors accountable for agreed delivery commitments, performance measures, timelines, budgets, and contractual obligations. * **Change and transformation management:** * Promote a transformation mindset and support operational transition into business-as-usual structures for card and digital capabilities. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * Proven delivery of complex business and technology modernisation initiatives, including multi-million rand strategic programmes. * Strong background in card issuing, acquiring, payments and/or digital banking. * Experience leading programmes with multiple internal and external stakeholders across business, technology, risk, governance and vendor teams. * Strong understanding of governance, risk, regulatory and control requirements within financial services. * Knowledge of SAFe Agile methodology, agile delivery practices and product-led operating models. * Minimum of 5 years’ experience leading large-scale banking, card, payments or fintech transformation programmes. * Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant qualification. * Experience in digital bank start-ups, fintech partnerships, core banking transformation, enterprise technology platforms or platform modernisation programmes. * Experience operating in high-growth or scaling environments, including transitioning solutions from proof of value to enterprise-scale deployment. * Scheme experience with Visa and/or Mastercard. * Education: Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies Required. **Who should apply** * Strategic, commercially minded and outcome-focused. * Able to simplify complexity and communicate clearly across executive, business, technology and vendor stakeholders. * Comfortable working in regulated environments with strong governance, risk and delivery discipline. * Collaborative leader with the ability to influence, align and mobilise cross-functional teams. **Deadline** October 16, 2026 **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/lead-card-modernization-growth-johannesburg-absa-group-limited-absa Source: myjobmag
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- At least 5 years of experience.
- Agile / Scrum
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