Job Summary
The main purpose of this position is to manage information management capabilities in order to provide an integrated view of the information management landscape, to improve the information management maturity levels within the Group, and to support reliable and effective decision-making.
Detailed description
- Support the business in the implementation of the various data management disciplines (i.e. Reference
and Master Data Management, Data Quality Management, Metadata Management, Data Modelling as
well as Design and Data Security).
- Provide a consolidated and integrated view of the information landscape within the Group to
support different use cases.
- Rationalize the information landscape within the Group for the purpose of continuous improvement
and effectiveness.
- Oversee and manage the information lifecycle and related interdisciplinary activities, from data
acquisition, retention, archival and deletion.
- Facilitate changes related to data and information, analyze the impact thereof, and coordinate the
implementation of information management activities based on the changes.
- Ensure alignment between the various data management disciplines in order to promote cross-functional
cohesion in providing business value.
- Lead and participate in engagements with stakeholders within the Group and external parties, to
ensure service delivery.
- Provide input into how data is stored, maintained and used in the database management implementation
process.
- Provide periodic reports, including technical reports, as well as information management reports for
decision-making purposes.
- Develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote data management across the
organization and to support reliable decision-making and appropriate data usage.
- Participate and provide technical support in cross-organization activities relating to any of the
abovementioned data management activities.
Job requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (NQF 7) in Informatics, Management Information Systems, Computer Science,
Computer Engineering or an equivalent qualification
- Five to eight years’ experience in the field of data management.
Additional requirements include:
- Honours or Master’s degree in Economics, Finance or related field or an equivalent combination of
education and job-related experience
- Extensive knowledge of best practices/methodologies in data warehousing and multi-dimensional data
analytics (e.g. OLAP, such as ESSBASE or Microsoft analysis services), systems design and
management and skill
- Extensive knowledge of the most common RDBMS technologies (e.g. Oracle, IBM, SQL Server and
MySQL) and skill
- Experience in deploying and managing big data environments (e.g. Hadoop, Spark and NoSQL) and
skill
- Knowledge of database querying languages (e.g. SQL) and skill
- Experience with a variety of programming languages, including but not limited to R and Python and skill
- Experience with development using a broad variety of integration techniques, patterns, tools and
methodologies and skill
- Experience in all the data management disciplines and skill.