Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Data Governance and Data Management (D)

Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Onsite)  •  3 hours ago
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Job Description

This is a 6 - month contract.

Our client, a leading Fintech innovator, is looking for a strategic leader to treat data as a high-value asset.

In this role, you will bridge the gap between compliance and innovation—embedding data quality, privacy, and usability across 16 markets while actively enabling responsible AI, regulatory compliance, and data monetization

You will partner closely with Data Engineering, AI/ML teams, Risk, and Legal to build a trusted, secure-by-design data culture.

Key Performance Areas

  • Strategy & Operating Model: Define and evolve the enterprise AI data governance framework, policies, and federated operating model across all markets.
  • Data Quality & Lineage: Establish enterprise data quality standards, master data management, and end-to-end data cataloging/lineage aligned to DAMA-DMBOK or DCAM
  • Responsible AI & Model Governance:
    Define ethical AI principles (fairness, transparency, bias mitigation) and manage training-data lineage across the model lifecycle.
  • Privacy & Compliance: Embed privacy-by-design and data-protection controls aligned to POPIA, GDPR, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS
  • Data Monetisation & Literacy:
    Establish the consent and data-sharing guardrails required to safely commercialize data products while uplifting enterprise data literacy.

Requirements include:

  • Experience: 8+ years in Data Governance, Data Management, or Risk Management within Fintech, Banking, or Telecoms.
  • Framework Mastery: Deep knowledge of data frameworks ( DMBOK/DCAM) and regulatory landscapes ( POPIA/GDPR).
  • AI/ML Familiarity: Practical understanding of cloud data pipelines and data structures used for training GenAI and classical ML models.
  • Stakeholder Influence: Proven ability to navigate complex, multi-country matrix structures and translate technical governance into business value.
Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

About Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Enabling the Digital Enterprise

South African business leadership has always been early adopters and significantly used information technology to improve productivity, efficiency, reach new markets and optimize supply chains. What is significant in recent years is that customer expectations have changed radically from the past. The challenge facing all South African and global organisations for that matter is:

• How can they best respond to this paradigm shift?

• How can they take advantage of the opportunity to innovate and grow through technology adoption? And,

• How can they do all this as cost effectively as possible?

This in Ovations’ opinion is the highly strategic journey of Digital Enablement including the critical intersection with Cloud Adoption as the strategic enabler. We, at Ovations, believe that digital enablement incorporates the change associated with the application of modern technology in all aspects of business and society, whereby Cloud Adoption is the way in which all business will implement and accelerate digital enablement.

Ovations has core domain expertise in process automation, content services, data & analytics and financial crime and risk prevention solutions. As Ovations, we provide guidance to our clients through an entire lifecycle of the cloud adoption process including initiatives to mitigate strategic workloads to the cloud deployment models encompassing IaaS, PaaS, FaaS and SaaS. We provide the following summary core cloud adoption services in this regard:

• Enterprise architecture and cloud adoption

• Cloud adoption architecture design

• Cloud people structures, roles and change management

• Cloud governance models and business cases

• Cloud adoption platform and public cloud selection

• Cloud data security and privacy

• Cloud migration strategies

• Cloud operational SLA and platform management

• DevSecOps design and implementations

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Johannesburg, ZA
Year Founded
1998
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