Senior Manager: Scheduling & Batch Automation

Johannesburg, South AfricaFull-timeSeniorOn-sitePosted 19 Oct 2026

Job Overview

Nedbank is appointing a Senior Manager – Scheduling & Batch Automation in Johannesburg (closing date 26 October 2026) to provide strategic, technical and operational leadership for the bank’s enterprise scheduling, workload orchestration and batch automation capability, ensuring critical business processing runs reliably, securely, efficiently and within agreed service levels.

The role owns the availability, resilience, performance, governance, automation and lifecycle of enterprise scheduling platforms such as BMC Control-M, and drives the move from traditional batch scheduling to modern workload automation and orchestration—API- and event-driven, self-service, integrated with DevOps/CI-CD, and using AI for failure prediction and automated remediation. The incumbent leads a team of scheduling, automation and platform engineering specialists, manages vendors, licensing and the capability’s operating budget, and reports on financial, operational and risk performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise Scheduling & Batch Automation capability: strategy, roadmap, architecture and service evolution

• Provide end-to-end accountability for workload automation platforms such as BMC Control-M

• Ensure critical batch workloads complete within SLAs and processing windows; maintain HA, BCP and DR

• Drive root-cause analysis and permanent remediation of recurring batch failures

• Lead modernisation to API-driven, event-driven and self-service scheduling integrated with DevOps/CI-CD

• Apply AI and intelligent automation for failure prediction, anomaly detection and automated remediation

• Enforce scheduling standards, segregation of duties, privileged-access and change controls; ensure auditability

• Define and monitor KPIs: batch success, SLA adherence, MTTR, batch-window duration, automation levels

• Lead and develop scheduling, automation and platform engineering specialists; build succession and cross-skilling

• Manage vendors, licensing, the annual operating budget and Run/Grow/Transform investment balance

Required Qualifications

• Matric / Grade 12 and Advanced Diploma / National 1st Degree

• Preferred: BMC Certified Professional / Control-M certification, ITIL, cloud technologies & architectures

• 10+ years’ experience in enterprise technology or IT operations

• 5+ years in a leadership or senior management capacity

• Demonstrated experience managing enterprise scheduling, workload automation, platform engineering or production operations

• Experience operating technology services in a large, complex, highly regulated enterprise

• Experience managing business-critical platforms with stringent availability and SLA requirements

• Banking or financial-services experience advantageous

Skills & Requirements

BMC Control-MWorkload AutomationBatch SchedulingJob OrchestrationIT Operations LeadershipPlatform ResilienceDevOps / CI-CD IntegrationAIOpsITILDisaster RecoveryVendor & Licence ManagementBudget ManagementChange & Release ManagementCloud Architecture