Job Description

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

This role is accountable for the enterprise-wide execution, coordination, and adoption of the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) portfolio. It ensures that EDM initiatives, services, and use cases are prioritised, aligned, and delivered consistently across divisions, in line with the agreed EDM strategy, target outcomes, and delivery guardrails.
It serves as the primary operational counterpart to senior leadership within the Data Management and Governance (DMG) function, providing a consolidated and authoritative view of portfolio performance.

The following responsibilities must be fulfilled:

Enterprise EDM Portfolio Ownership

• Provide input into the consolidated EDM portfolio, ensuring alignment and coherence across initiatives, capabilities, services, and divisions

• Translate strategic priorities into structured, sequenced execution roadmaps

• Provide a single, authoritative view of portfolio scope, progress, risks, and interdependencies

• Maintain and continuously refine the EDM capability and adoption roadmap

• Lead prioritisation of the DMG Book of Work (BoW), balancing regulatory, risk, and business demand within defined constraints

• Make sequencing and prioritisation decisions within agreed guardrails, escalating only where required

• Align demand, service delivery and capacity to enable predictable and efficient execution

Delivery Coordination & Portfolio Integration

• Provide integrated oversight and management of all EDM initiatives and use case implementations

• Coordinate across delivery teams, vendors and stakeholders to manage dependencies and sequencing, including managing other project managers and scrum masters where necessary for delivery across the portfolio

• Ensure delivery commitments remain aligned to portfolio priorities and stakeholder expectations

• Support and coordinate enterprise adoption and change activities, including communication, readiness, and transition support

• Ensure consistent, transparent communication of priorities, progress, and adoption expectations

6. Business Engagement and Divisional Representation

• Translate insights and feedback from divisions into targeted improvement actions and roadmap adjustments

• Represent the Data Management and Governance (DMG) function in enterprise and divisional working forums and tactical governance structures

• Provide structured portfolio reporting, insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders

• Support leadership with evidence-based inputs for decision-making and escalation

Education and Experience Required

· Minimum 5–8 years’ experience in enterprise data management, data governance, portfolio/project management or a related discipline

· Experience supporting and coordinating delivery roadmaps spanning multiple initiatives and stakeholders within a large or complex organisation

· Demonstrated experience coordinating data‑related initiatives, services or platforms (e.g. data quality, metadata, analytics enablement, regulatory data initiatives)

· Experience operating in a federated operating model, balancing central coordination with divisional delivery and accountability

· Knowledge of data management technologies, such as Informatica or Ataccama would be advantageous

· Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Business, Risk Management, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience)

Knowledge & Skills

· Working understanding of enterprise data management and governance disciplines, including data quality, metadata, reference data and data operating models, sufficient to effectively coordinate and manage initiatives

· Portfolio and demand management capability, including roadmap definition, prioritisation, dependency management and sequencing

· Ability to translate strategic intent into structured, executable plans and coordinated delivery activity

· Strong stakeholder engagement, communication and facilitation skills across business, risk and technology audiences

· Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams in a complex, fast‑paced environment

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised