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Capability Head - Data Pipelines & API Engineering
FNB
Posted 3 months agoJohannesburg, South Africa
Location
Johannesburg, South Africa
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Mid-Level
Deadline
April 8, 2026
Category
Technology
Job Description
FNB is so much more than a bank — offering life and short-term insurance, innovative savings and investment products, and a digital universe of solutions. The Capability Head is accountable for defining, leading and maturing FNB's enterprise-wide capability for data pipelines, API engineering and intelligent digitisation, underpinning improved customer experience, operational efficiency, risk reduction and advanced decision-making across the bank.
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Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field
- 6–10+ years experience in data engineering, API engineering or intelligent automation
- Expertise in large-scale data engineering: Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Databricks, Azure Data Factory
- Strong knowledge of API standards (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) and API management platforms (Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Kong)
- Experience with OCR, computer vision, ML models and LLMs; cloud engineering (Azure/AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, Docker
- Prior leadership as Capability Owner, Product Owner or Engineering Lead; banking/financial services experience advantageous
Responsibilities
- Own and drive the strategy for Data Pipelines, API Engineering and Intelligent Digitisation (OCR, LLMs, computer vision) across FNB
- Oversee design, build and operation of automated, scalable data pipelines across cloud and on-premise environments ensuring POPIA compliance
- Own the API capability including standards, governance, frameworks and best-practice design patterns; champion API lifecycle management and portal adoption
- Lead deployment of OCR, computer vision, LLMs and intelligent agent-based platforms to extract structured data from documents (payslips, ID documents, bank statements)
- Set and enforce best-practice engineering standards including cloud engineering, CI/CD, DevOps and MLOps across squads
- Engage and influence Business, Risk, Compliance, Architecture and Digital Platform stakeholders; communicate capability value to senior leadership
- Ensure compliance with POPIA, information security standards and responsible AI principles
