Frans Van Niekerk

Information Technology Head

City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

About

Experienced System Architect with a demonstrated history of working in the banking industry with a strong interest in business domains. Skilled Software Architecture, Integrations, Software Development and DevOps practices. Strong engineering professional with a Bsc (Hons) IT: Computer Science focused in Computer Science from University of Pretoria.

Experience

  • FNB South Africa (12 yrs)
    • Head of Information Technology, Central Finance Technology Platform
      Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • System Architect, FNB Central Finance
      Jul 2022 - Mar 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

    • System Architect, Core Banking Applications
      Apr 2015 - Jun 2022 · 7 yrs 3 mos

      Heading up the FNB Corporate Banking portfolios which include International Trade, Global Liquidity Management, Settlement and Swift, and Custodial Services. I am also deeply involved in FNB Integration's target capabilities and architecture. This includes the architecture and standards for API X initiative which extends to a public API capability. In addition I have been consulting widely within CBA on various subjects including but not limited to integration patterns and practices, DevOps, Microservices vs Monoliths, Scaling strategies, high availability, design patterns and software architecture.

  • Founding Director at VelvetAnt Systems
    Nov 2013 - Jul 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Conceptualized, designed and built a custom taxi cab application for the South African market. Platform fully deployed via "single click" using CI/CD and cloud infrastructure. Scalability and platform growth was core to the solution and has been sold off to major corporates as a base realtime location tracking platform.

  • System Architect at RMB Corporate Banking
    May 2013 - Aug 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Responsible for the International Trade portfolio. Responsibility includes solution architecture, technical architecture and integration architecture of the replacement systems.

  • ITQ Business Solutions (pty) Ltd (City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa)
    • Solution Architect
      Mar 2012 - May 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Contracted to Standard Bank Corporate Transactional Services I was involved in customer to bank integration concerns, general payment concerns and internal integration concerns.

    • Senior JEE Developer
      May 2008 - May 2012 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      Contracted to SITA and worked on various aspects of the Integrated Financial Management System. The system was intended to create better transparency for financial concerns in the Government.

  • Founding Director at Succinct Technology Solutions
    Aug 2008 - Aug 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Conceptualised, designed, implemented, delivered and supported a prototype Chat Bot Platform for MTN.