Head: Data Optimisation

1 week ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Nedbank Full time

**Job Purpose**
- To manage the optimization and provisioning of data and BAU / maintenance; taking end-to-end enterprise ownership to address client requirements in line with Nedbank CIB and Group Technology strategy.
- To get results through a complete function (functional synergy), provide competitive advantage for the business, build flexibility and effectiveness of the process function, build functional state-of-the-art-results and credibility and understanding and value all sub-functions.
- To engage the future through functional best practice strategy and getting "tomorrow's results" through addressing "issues" today by building management foundation to deliver operational excellence and productivity.

**Responsibilities**:

- Deliver strategic results through team by translating strategy into operational and project plans and budgets.
- Manage resources, enable executing and achieve business strategy and associated metrics.
- Optimise value add by identifying and managing risk.
- Ensure business area comply with standards, policy and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure management of function by allocating work, organising department, driving productivity improvement and by smoothing day-to-day operations
- Solve problems through quality and timeous decisions, correcting actions and improving team results.
- Ensure direct reports understand and support Nedbank's vision, values and strategy.
- Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in Nedbank culture building initiatives, business strategy, and CSI.
- Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, ensuring personal and professional growth.
- Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and values, leading by example.
- Manage performance of direct reports and hold them accountable for managing the performance of their direct reports by implementing performance agreements and ensuring a clear vision.
- Ensure self and team improve on productivity and efficiency month on month
- Ensure client / business needs are met by providing advice and consulting on professional solutions
- Ensure professional solutions that demonstrate a balance of best of breed and return on investment for the client are delivered to client within agreed parameters and timelines
- Build commercially viable relationships with stakeholders though advise provided
- Enable collaborative delivery by establishing as productive working relationships with staff, managers, peers and clients
- Maximise return on investment by ensuring that correct are Vendors selected and managed
- Ensure skill development and performance improvement of staff by agreeing staff and resource plans with management and operationalised
- Ensure high performance culture though the review of teamwork tasks and corrective action implemented when required
- Ensure team processes, systems, protocols, methods, technologies, standards implemented, audited and corrective actions taken when required
- Meet all agreed risk and compliance requirements and mitigate non-compliance to standards, policies and regulatory requirements
- Ensure satisfactory post implementation project review
- Mitigate Project risks by identifying possible risks and raising it at the appropriate forums
- Ensure work delivery by using traditional and/or agile development methodology to manage deliverables
- Actively institutionalises the organisation’s systems development standards, methods and procedures
- Participates in monitoring and reporting on the progress of systems development.
- Takes action to deal with exceptions, problems and unforeseen events as per SLAs
- Ensure that data projects are carried out in accordance with the agreed standards, methods and procedures by monitoring s quality assurance systems, processes and measures
- Ensures that adequate capacity is available to support the function and cluster strategic objectives and that they are optimally utilised and accounted for

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
- Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
- Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

**Preferred Qualification**
- BSc Honours Computer Science (Post-graduate) or equivalent

**Type of Exposure**
- Achieved Management and Process Results
- Built a high performance culture
- Built and maintained stakeholder relationships
- Delivered compliance risk management programmes and advice
- Designed Workforce Planning Solutions
- Improved Processes and Culture
- Managed Transformation & Innovation
- Managed Financial and Business Results
- Managed Leadership and Learning Results
- Managed Management & Process Results
- Managed budget
- Managed team
- Supported Transformation, Change and continued Improvement
- Provided operational support for Governance, Compliance and risk based assurance

**Minimum Experience Level**
- 10 years Information Technology-related experience
- 10 years in SQL Server / Database / Data Warehousing
- 7 years working with ETL tools (eg. Abinitio, SSIS & Informatica etc)
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