Job Location : Gauteng, Pretoria Deadline : July 05, 2025 Quick Recommended Links
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Job Responsibilities
Data Strategy Development and Execution
- Develop and implement a comprehensive data management strategy aligned with the bank’s business goals.
- Drive the adoption of best practices for data management across the organization.
- Ensure data assets are managed and utilized effectively to support decision-making.
Data Architecture and Infrastructure
- Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of the bank’s data architecture.
- Collaborate with IT teams to ensure data systems and platforms are scalable, secure, and efficient.
- Evaluate and implement data management technologies and tools.
Data Quality and Integrity
- Lead efforts to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and reliability across the organization.
- Develop and enforce data quality standards and metrics.
- Implement data cleansing and validation processes.
- Team Leadership and Development
- Build and manage a high-performing data management team, including data governance, data architecture, data scientists and data quality professionals.
- Provide mentorship, training, and career development opportunities to team members.
- Foster a collaborative and innovative team culture.
Collaboration and Stakeholder Management
- Work closely with business units to understand their data needs and challenges.
- Partner with IT, risk, and compliance teams to ensure data management aligns with broader organizational goals.
- Communicate data management strategies and progress to executive leadership.
- Identify and mitigate risks related to data management, including data breaches and unauthorized access.
- Ensure data management practices align with the bank’s risk management framework.
Innovation and Continuous Improvement
- Stay abreast of industry trends and advancements in data management.
- Continuously improve data management practices and processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
- Drive innovation in data usage, including the implementation of advanced analytics and AI-driven insights.
Data Lifecycle management and Metadata management
- Ensure policies, processes and standards exist for data lifecycle management (i.e. Management of data from creation to deletion) and for metadata management
- Ensure metadata is up-to-date and accessible
Master Data Management
- Ensure policies, processes and standards exist for master data management
- Drive the centralization of key data (like customer information and product data) and ensure it is consistent across the bank.
Data Integration
- Ensure that data required to provide BI is combined from different sources to provide a unified view for Analytics team to utilize.
- Focus areas to achieve this include ETL processes, provision of data lakes, APIs and data synchronization between systems.
Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge and understanding of :
- Completed a Post B-Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, Engineering or related field (NQF8)
- Completed or studying towards a master’s qualification
- At least 10 years’ experience in implementing and managing a data management function
- 5 years banking or financial industry experience
- Proven track record of developing and implementing data management strategies and governance frameworks.
- Strong understanding of data management tools and technologies (e.g., SQL, ETL processes, data lakes, cloud platforms).
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements related to data management and privacy.
- Proficiency in data analytics and business intelligence tools.
- Strong understanding and experience with data architecture design, data warehousing, and data integration.
- Understanding of business operations and banking industry