Head: Data Science and Analytics

6 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together one story at a time.
- With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.Job Summary

**Job Description**:
Drive data projects and frame problems/opportunities:

- Build and maintain strong relationships with the project and business stakeholders to develop an understanding of business strategy and objective and identify implications to define the data modeling goals for the designated areas.
- Develop and maintain Compliance data strategy incorporating project and BAU needs, future trends and interlocks with technology partners
- Provide leadership to teams for approach to data acquisition, data mining and overall responsibilities to deliver to stakeholders
- Design, develop and establish relevant frameworks, models and business practices to drive data centric approach to understanding current business problems/ opportunities with the provision of input into solutions
- Deliver the Data projects, through the Data Team
- Deliver on time and on budget

Drive Data Capability and Data Infrastructure
- Build and maintain strong relationships with the project and business stakeholders to develop an understanding of business strategy and objective and identify implications to define the data modeling goals for the designated areas
- Cascade business challenges & commercial understanding to the data team working on data solutions
- Further translate the business challenges into key questions that can be solved with data solutions & coach other data analysts to do the same
- Refine the data requirements and develop a technical roadmap to deliver raw data to Data teams for interpretation & analysis
- Design, develop and establish relevant frameworks, models and business practices to drive data centric approach to understanding current business problems/ opportunities with the provision of input into solutions
- Work with team on understanding requirements based and translate these into trackable analytical problems relaying results in common business language with decision making implications
- Analyse data across multiple systems and formats to provide analytics and information that provides integrated views necessary for project outcomes and deliver for the business and the customer
- Implement and maintain quality framework and processes for data processes and deliverables of the team
- Implement and maintain quality infrastructure strategies for data processes
- Proactively partner the data Analytics teams to assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources & data gathering techniques
- Positively contribute to the data architecture and infrastructure direction by providing expertise on data tools, techniques and the broader business data requirements
- Promote data literacy across the enterprise by sharing best practices and showing tangible business impact & recommendations as a direct result of the the data solutions provided
- Proactively stay ahead of the curve on data science trends & leading practice data science tools and techniques & transition the organisation to advanced methods for the continuous optimization of data

Risk and Governance
- Identify data risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post solution deployment / data delivery)
- Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (if required)
- Create knowledge & document management processes and practices for data management aligned to Group Risk, Governance & Compliance & Broader Regulatory requirements
- Provide risk, governance, compliance & broader regulatory reporting as required
- Contribute to risk, governance, compliance & broader regulatory processes (if & when required)

Data Governance and Control
- Understand frameworks, sources of data and data flows
- Ensure accuracy of data collected and ensure data governance required is met and adhered to
- Participate in data governance forums and teams as required
- Drive data governance responsibilities across all pieces of work

Stakeholder Management
- Ensure data models and design are communicated to and understood by Business Stakeholders
- Provide business-oriented insights and articulate how solutions can support these
- Play key role in leadership of Change projects in driving data deliverables and their impact in achieving project outcomes
- Support all Data Management activities within its respective business divisions
- Monitor and supervises the rollout and compliance of the relevant rules, policies and procedures within its respective business division
- Defines and executes data governance strategy, in line with the BU Data Strategy
- Provide material to the Data Management Committee on the divisions’ performance
- Support and advise Data Quality Specialist and Business

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