Senior Information Management Specialist

It Ridge Technologies; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in data management is seeking a skilled professional to lead the Enterprise Information Management Centre of Excellence. The role involves coordinating data management practices, ensuring effective decision-making, and developing business continuity plans. Candidates should possess an honours degree and extensive experience in the field, along with relevant certifications. This position offers an opportunity to drive data management literacy and improve overall organizational effectiveness.

Qualifications

• 8 to 10 years of experience in data and information management.
• Relevant data management certification (e.g., CDMP Practitioner) is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and maintenance of the EIM Service Catalogue.
• Establish and lead data management working groups across departments.
• Monitor and manage service level agreements for EIM service requests.

Skills

Data management

Business intelligence

ETL development

Quality assurance

Continuous learning

Education

Honours degree in Informatics, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Power BI

ETL tools (SSIS, IBM DataStage, Oracle ODI)

Big data environments (HADOOP, SPARK)

Job description

The main purpose of this position is to lead, coordinate, and integrate information management practices and business processes within the Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Centre of Excellence (CoE) to support reliable and effective decision-making.

Responsibilities :

• Take responsibility for business-as-usual (BAU) resource planning and management to ensure the effective delivery and business continuity to balance demand and supply for work completed by various projects.
• Establish and lead the data management working groups in the various departments.
• Lead the development and maintenance of the EIM Service Catalogue.
• Monitor, measure, and manage the service level agreements associated with approved EIM service requests.
• Determine and identify data management deliverables, resources, and skills requirements as well as data-related technologies to meet business demands and associated budgets.
• Drive the improvement of data management literacy within the organisation by ensuring the development and training of stakeholders.
• Develop business continuity and recovery plans for implementation during outages and disasters.
• Establish and lead the EIM Change Advisory Board to manage and evaluate data-related changes across the organisation.
• Manage and coordinate the overall Data Management Maturity assessment against best practices.
• Coordinate and manage the development of standards, frameworks, guidelines, processes, and procedures across the various data management capabilities.
• Develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote data management awareness across the organisation and support reliable decision-making.
• Provide integrated reporting in relation to EIM operations including, but not limited to, governance structures, projects, demand management, and BAU.

Requirements :

• An honours degree (NQF 8) in Informatics, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer , or a related field of study or an equivalent qualification.
• A relevant data management certification (e.g., CDMP Practitioner) will be an added advantage.
• 8 to 10 years of experience in the field of data and information management.
• Business intelligence software such as MicroStrategy, Pyramid, OBISS, Microsoft Power BI.
• ETL development and maintenance with SSIS, IBM DataStage, Oracle ODI, PL / SQL & T / SQL stored procedures, and complex SQL queries.
• Deployment of big data environments (e.g., HADOOP, SPARK, NoSQL, Informatica, SAS, ERWIN, and Teradata).
• Continuous learning and / or professional development.
• Quality assurance.
• Enterprise information management legislation, governance, risk, and compliance.
• Contract and associated service management.
• Capacity and performance management.

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