Data Governance & Access Control Specialist

Experian; Randburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Experian in South Africa is seeking a Data Governance Specialist to implement standards and controls that govern secure access to data assets and ensure auditability and integrity across the data landscape.

You will build and maintain data catalogs and glossary, monitor access, prepare reports, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive remediation and continuous improvement of data governance practices.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent standard with high information technology content.
• 3–5 years of monitoring and evaluation experience.
• 1–3 years of data analysis and statistical measurements.

Responsibilities

• Implement required controls to monitor and audit data access daily for early detection of inappropriate access.
• Evaluate monitoring results and provide recommendations to aid remediation.
• Build and maintain the data catalogue and business glossary with metadata ownership and lineage.
• Prepare and maintain the monitoring database using available tools.
• Carry out activities to collect, review, analyse and report on data to meet required standards and controls.
• Develop creative solutions and best practice in the utilisation of Experian data to produce relevant monitoring and evaluation insights.
• Create triggers that can alert users on inappropriate access activity.
• Evaluate, assess and validate monitoring results to ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Identify and resolve data problems, producing appropriate analysis to verify results.
• Follow policies, procedures and standards throughout the monitoring and evaluation process to ensure all requirements are fulfilled.
• Produce reports daily and monthly on monitoring and evaluation findings and prepare presentations based on data.

Skills

Monitoring & evaluation

Data analysis

Analytical thinking

Communication

Report writing

Education

Degree or equivalent with IT focus

Job description

Experian in South Africa is seeking a Data Governance Specialist to implement standards and controls that govern secure access to data assets and ensure auditability and integrity across the data landscape.

You will build and maintain data catalogs and glossary, monitor access, prepare reports, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive remediation and continuous improvement of data governance practices.