Senior Data Analyst

NTT DATA, Inc.; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA, Inc. is seeking a senior data-architecture professional to design FX target-state data models and establish a fact-based understanding of data movement across the FX value chain.

You will provide shared data foundations and evidence for programme design decisions. The role involves mapping data lineage, defining data dictionaries, and preparing artefacts for architecture, integration, migration, and vendor discussions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, Engineering, Mathematics or a related discipline.
• AWS Cloud Practitioner certification as a minimum.
• 8 years of professional experience.
• 5 years of financial services experience.
• 5 years of Business Analysis or Feature Analysis experience.
• 5 years of Data Analysis experience.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments and engaging senior business and technology stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Establish the priority FX domain inventory and catalogue business entities, attributes and relationships across the lifecycle.
• Prepare logical data-model artefacts, entity definitions, key attributes and modelling assumptions; maintain a prioritised register of model gaps and design decisions.
• Identify critical data elements and maintain a business data dictionary covering definitions, formats, business rules, producers, consumers, owners and authoritative sources.
• Map current-state data lineage and selected source-to-target journeys; identify manual hand-offs, duplicated data, transformation gaps and control points.
• Investigate priority data integrity and quality issues, including completeness, consistency, timeliness, duplication and reconciliation; document root causes and recommendations.
• Analyse cross-system client, trade and transaction identifiers to support common reference requirements.
• Prepare data-focused analysis packs and impact assessments for architecture, integration, migration and vendor discussions.
• Support Analyst 2 with consistent definitions, model inputs and shared identifiers; participate in Agile ceremonies, document dependencies and transfer knowledge.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Data analysis

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Backlog management

SQL

Education

BSc in IT/CS/IS/DM/Engineering/Math

AWS Cloud Practitioner certification

Tools

Jira

Data-lineage tooling

Job description

Summary of Role

Support the design of the FX target-state data model and establish a fact-based understanding of how data is structured, owned and moves across the FX value chain. Provide shared data foundations and evidence for programme design decisions. [1]

Responsibilities

• Establish the priority FX domain inventory and catalogue business entities, attributes and relationships across the lifecycle.
• Prepare logical data-model artefacts, entity definitions, key attributes and modelling assumptions; maintain a prioritised register of model gaps and design decisions.
• Identify critical data elements and maintain a business data dictionary covering definitions, formats, business rules, producers, consumers, owners and authoritative sources.
• Map current-state data lineage and selected source-to-target journeys; identify manual hand-offs, duplicated data, transformation gaps and control points.
• Investigate priority data integrity and quality issues, including completeness, consistency, timeliness, duplication and reconciliation; document root causes and recommendations.
• Analyse cross-system client, trade and transaction identifiers to support common reference requirements.
• Prepare data-focused analysis packs and impact assessments for architecture, integration, migration and vendor discussions.
• Support Analyst 2 with consistent definitions, model inputs and shared identifiers; participate in Agile ceremonies, document dependencies and transfer knowledge.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, Engineering, Mathematics or a related discipline.
• AWS Cloud Practitioner certification as a minimum.
• 8 years of professional experience.
• 5 years of financial services experience.
• 5 years of Business Analysis or Feature Analysis experience.
• 5 years of Data Analysis experience.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments and engaging senior business and technology stakeholders.

Technical skills

• Requirements elicitation and management; business and feature analysis; user stories; acceptance criteria; workshop facilitation; process analysis and stakeholder management.
• Data analysis, mapping, modelling, governance, lineage and quality analysis; testing support and validation.
• Backlog management and Agile delivery support.
• SQL and data profiling; data warehousing and architecture concepts; metadata management and data-lineage tooling.
• Reporting and analytics concepts; understanding of application programming interfaces and system integration; Jira and Agile tooling.

Advantageous Experience

• Foreign exchange, capital markets, treasury systems and front‑office trading environments.
• Regulatory reporting and financial product data models.