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) for the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Group to support reliable and effective decision making.
Detailed description
The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:
- 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 SARB Group 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 the data-related change across the SARB Group.
- Manage and coordinate the overall Data Management Maturity assessment within the SARB against best practices.
- Coordinate and manage the development of standards, frameworks, guidelines, processes and procedures across the various data management capabilities within the SARB Group.
- 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.
Job requirements
To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:
- an honours’ degree (NQF 7) in Informatics, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering or a related field of study or an equivalent qualification;
- a relevant data management certification (e.g. CDMP Practitioner) will be an added advantage; and
- 8 to10 years’ experience in the field of data and information management.
Additional requirements include knowledge and skill in:
- industry, organisational and business awareness;
- continuous learning and/or professional development;
- quality assurance;
- continuous improvement;
- business continuity planning;
- information management strategy;
- enterprise information management legislation, governance, risk and compliance;
- enterprise information reporting;
- enterprise information management project management;
- change management;
- information management;
- enterprise information management skills development;
- contract and associated service management;
- enterprise information management financial management;
- business intelligence software such as MicroStrategy, Pyramid, OBISS, MicroSoft Power BI;
- ETL development and maintenance with SSIS, IBM data stage, 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);
- business intelligence; and
- capacity and performance management.
In line with the SARB’s commitment to diversifying its workforce, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups. People with disabilities are welcome to apply.
The SARB offers remuneration and benefits commensurate with the level of the position and in line with the market. The level at which the successful applicant will be appointed will depend on his/her competence and experience.
