Strategic IT & Data Enabler for Growth

Ambit Recruitment South Africa; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Ambit Recruitment South Africa is seeking an experienced professional for a practical, business-facing technology and information enablement role. You will own delivery, work with senior stakeholders, and align systems with group platforms to improve data management, reporting, and compliance.

The role combines hands-on work with strategic oversight, requires 8+ years in information management, business analysis, and data delivery, and involves collaborating with an external infrastructure

Qualifications

• Postgraduate qualification in information systems, information management, data, CS, engineering, business analytics or related field.
• Further training in business analysis, data governance, reporting, AI, automation, project delivery, privacy or cybersecurity is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Take practical responsibility for improving quality, structure, ownership, flow and use of group information.
• Establish data standards across master records, definitions, accuracy, access and retention.
• Identify data-quality gaps and coordinate improvements with owners and the data analyst.
• Support privacy-by-design and POPIA compliance in collaboration with Compliance.
• Meet with partner firms to understand systems, data sources, onboarding, servicing and compliance.
• Translate business needs into clear requirements, designs, workflows and costed solutions.
• Deliver improvements with configuration, testing and user training, involving infra/provider specialists.
• Improve reliability and usefulness of data and reporting available to the group and partners.

Skills

Stakeholder management

AI experience

Data governance

Business analysis

Education

Postgraduate qualification

Tools

Power BI

Power Platform

Microsoft 365

CRM

Job description

Ambit Recruitment South Africa is seeking an experienced professional for a practical, business-facing technology and information enablement role. You will own delivery, work with senior stakeholders, and align systems with group platforms to improve data management, reporting, and compliance.

The role combines hands-on work with strategic oversight, requires 8+ years in information management, business analysis, and data delivery, and involves collaborating with an external infrastructure