Master & Reference Data Strategy Lead

University of Fort Hare; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 332,000 - 443,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Fort Hare seeks a Senior Reference and Master Data Specialist to establish and mature enterprise frameworks for MDM and RDM, improving data quality and governance across critical domains.

You will develop standards, manage data, build authoritative sources, and work with business and technology stakeholders on data rules, dictionaries, taxonomies and metadata to support analytics and decision-making. This is a long-term contractor role within a large enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Management, Information Systems or related field.
• Minimum 5–8 years’ experience in a data management environment.
• Strong practical experience in MDM and RDM within a large enterprise.
• Experience creating and implementing data governance frameworks and controls.
• Experience with data quality, metadata management, data catalogues, dictionaries and taxonomies.
• Ability to engage with business and technology stakeholders across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Define and document reference and master data requirements, business rules and metrics.
• Establish authoritative sources of trusted information for decision-making and operations.
• Define and manage master data relationships, hierarchies and structures for analytics.
• Develop and implement standards and procedures governing reference and master data.
• Create data matching and merging rules to maintain a single version of critical data.
• Build and maintain reference and master data environments for standardization.
• Maintain data taxonomies, catalogues and dictionaries.
• Manage metadata related to reference and master data.
• Monitor and report on data quality metrics and remediation actions.
• Develop and maintain data repositories across domains.
• Contribute to ongoing development of data standards, frameworks and SOPs.
• Implement data governance controls to support maintenance and management of reference and master data.
• Support delivery of data for EPM Cloud Solution Project.
• Foster stakeholder relationships to embed sound data management practices across the organisation.

Skills

MDM

RDM

Data governance

Metadata management

Data quality

Data catalogues

Data dictionaries

Data taxonomies

Stakeholder engagement

Enterprise data standards

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Management/Information Systems or equivalent

Job description

University of Fort Hare seeks a Senior Reference and Master Data Specialist to establish and mature enterprise frameworks for MDM and RDM, improving data quality and governance across critical domains.

You will develop standards, manage data, build authoritative sources, and work with business and technology stakeholders on data rules, dictionaries, taxonomies and metadata to support analytics and decision-making. This is a long-term contractor role within a large enterprise environment.