Chief Data & AI Strategy Leader

Old Mutual Limited; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Old Mutual Limited in Pinelands, Cape Town, invites a seasoned Head of Data and AI to shape enterprise data strategy, governance, and AI capabilities across banking, insurance, savings and rewards propositions. You will lead a central ecosystem, align with executives, and balance risk, compliance and value delivery.

Responsibilities span designing data platform on Databricks, building customer identity resolution, data pipelines, and AI-powered decisioning.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science or related field.
• Experience designing data governance frameworks in financial services or regulated industries.
• Proven data strategy and transformation leadership across multiple units.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute data, analytics and AI strategy aligned with enterprise objectives.
• Design and govern the ecosystem data space, including Databricks-based lakehouse architecture.
• Lead AI readiness, governance, risk controls and model validation with ROI focus.
• Build data pipelines, customer identity resolution and recommender capabilities.
• Collaborate with executives to ensure compliance (POPIA, RDARR) and data trust.

Skills

Data governance

Strategic leadership

Stakeholder management

Regulatory compliance

AI governance

Data strategy

Cloud lakehouse

Education

PhD preferred in data science

Tools

Databricks

Spark

MLOps

LLMOps

Job description

Old Mutual Limited in Pinelands, Cape Town, invites a seasoned Head of Data and AI to shape enterprise data strategy, governance, and AI capabilities across banking, insurance, savings and rewards propositions. You will lead a central ecosystem, align with executives, and balance risk, compliance and value delivery.

Responsibilities span designing data platform on Databricks, building customer identity resolution, data pipelines, and AI-powered decisioning.