Metadata Management Specialist

2 weeks ago

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Ulwembu Business Services Full time

Ulwembu Business Services is a black-owned management consulting and information and communications technology (ICT) services company that facilitates the transformation of private and public enterprises to optimised, digitised organisations.


Ulwembu Business Services operates in South Africa and comprises five companies that focus on key areas of ICT that leverage technology, people, and processes to create sustainable value for our clients.

We are currently looking for a Metadata Management Specialist to be based at one of our clients.

ROLE Metadata Management Specialist

BUSINESS UNIT Information Technology

1. DIMENSIONS
(Indicate, in quantitative terms, the key areas on which your job has an impact.)

Key deliverables

  • Develop Business Cases
  • Understand Metadata Requirements
  • Develop and maintain departmental Metadata Standards
  • Create, maintain, and integrate Metadata
  • Develop Metadata Quality Reports
  • Business Requirements Specification Document
  • Functional Requirements Specification Document
  • Develop Metadata Training documentation

2. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
(What is done - how is it done - and what is achieved by doing it)

Key Competencies:

  • Knowledge of the Metadata Management (MM) (essential)
  • Analysis and problemsolving
  • Effective communication, planning and organising
  • Service and stakeholder focus
  • Conceptual thinking
  • Attention to detail and results driven
  • Facilitation skills
  • Quality orientation
  • Negotiation skills
  • Team player
  • Selfmotivated

Key Results Area

  • Develop tactical strategies and related action plans specific to metadata.
  • Develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote data sharing and metadata awareness across the organisation and to support reliable decisionmaking.
  • Define useful metadata for business as well as approach for metadata management within the data virtualisation platform.
  • Create, maintain, and integrate a metadata environment that enables the sharing and standardisation of business information.
  • To identify unknown (and useful) datasets and potentially remove duplication in existing/future collection processes.
  • Maintain and support metadata for the data virtualisation tool as well as facilitate enhancements thereon.
  • Define business terms, taxonomy, rules and develop business dictionaries/glossaries to create a common understanding of business terms for the Group and its relevant stakeholders.
  • Determine the usage and treatment of business terms as they relate to business operations and functions to create a common understanding thereof. Develop controls for business terms to support reliable decisionmaking.
  • Make regular metadata quality checks and provide improvement suggestions where issues are identified as well as ensure that security is maintained.
  • Enable the improvement of metadata so that business users can consume such data for analysis and reporting.
  • Actively participate in processes that continually aim to improve systems, processes, and procedures as they relate to metadata.
  • Drive automation of metadata management processes and functions.

3. KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
(What kind of knowledge, skills and experience are necessary to enable satisfactory performance in your job)

Document name:
UBS-Vacancy-Metadata Management Specialist

Version: 01

Author:
Recruitment

Formal Education
- a minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Informatics, Computer Science, Management Information

Systems, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent NQF 7 qualification; and

Professional/Technical Certification

  • Metadata Management Certification (e.g. Associate level) will be an added advantage.

Experience & Skills:

Minimum 5 years' experience in the below:

  • Minimum five to eight years of job-related experience within the metadata field
  • Solid exposure to Agile methodology

Document name:
UBS-Vacancy-Metadata Management Specialist

Version: 01

Author:
Recruitment

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Pretoria, Gauteng: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Application Question(s):

  • Do you hold the following Professional/

Technical Certification:
Metadata Management Certification (e.g. Associate level) ?

Education:

  • Bachelors (required)

Experience:

- metadata & agile methodology: 5 years (required)

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