Data Lead

**Job Advert Summary**:
**PURPOSE**:

- To ensure data is managed according to data governance requirements
- To ensure the availability of accurate Key Performance Indicators on a value chain level as required by business to support efficient and effective production planning, optimization and reporting
- To enable effective in time decision making facilitating year on year improvements through data management
- Ensure data is integrated and managed in a manner that ensures and maintains a single version version of the truth, available in the required time frame and aligned to business processes to enable citizen report building
- To ensure stable, accurate data flows and alignment between the data marts

**Minimum Requirements**:
**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- BSc Engineering (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
- BSc Computer Science (Essential/Minimum or)
- BEng Engineering (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
- BEng Computer Engineering (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate First Line Management (Essential/Minimum)

**EXPERIENCE**:
**REQUIREMENTS**:

- Certificate in SQL Database Coding (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
- Competence: Simulation Modelling (Essential/Minimum)
- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
- Competence: MS Office Relevant Package (Essential/Minimum)
- Competence: Discipline Specific Program (Recommended/Desirable)

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Data Delivery**
- Drive the data strategy implementation
- Ensure master and reference data that supports the data owner’s area of control is appropriately managed to support effective consolidation, aggregation and integration of data
- Identify and document critical data assets within the business of accountability
- Responsible for the maintenance data measures and Key Performance Areas (KPI’s) required by any reporting using this area’s KPI’s
- Ensure relevant reports are built correctly and relevant maintenance thereof
- Responsible for the creation and implementation of governance around data structure, data flow and reporting to ensure a robust data set usable by all
- Responsible for the implementation of all relevant data forums
- Inputs and logic support on the architecture, design, and implementation for automated analytics and reporting to support the business unit. Ensuring data is useable in business context
- Uses the organizational data blueprint provided by the data architect to gather, store, and prepare the data in a framework from which the data scientist and data analyst work
- Supporting IM in building and testing maintainable Enterprise Data Architectures that is supporting the data strategy

**Data Governance**
- Ensure data governance that allows agility through DevOps way of work
- Manage "one version of the truth", big picture database & data logic (Ensure no duplication of KPIs between DMs)
- Run and facilitate all data forums
- Ensure governance and process is in place and remains relevant as technology changes
- Ensure data flow logic consistent in all areas (in support of/with IM architecture and reporting governance)
- Ensure data flow logic is visible and simple to use to anyone needing to build a report
- Ownership of one version of truth between different data bases

**Data Management**
- Authorise data definitions, changes to data and the use of data i.e. access approval
- Ensure that vital business records are classified according to security requirements and categorised within the appropriate data themes
- Ensure any new systems designed adequately address data integrity, data quality, data privacy and security risks
- Ensure information risks, incidents or events, issues and control weaknesses are identified and communicated in a manner that allows timely corrective action to be taken
- Focused on the day-to-day tasks of cleaning, wrangling, and preparing data for other data consumers, such as data scientists and citizen report builders
- Key enabler to the integrated operations centre for data scientists and analysts in assessing and aligning data requirements for the BU, and in updating / modernising data visualisation feeds

**Effective People Management**
- Gives guidance to those performing the role of Data Custodians and Developers
- Works with Data Custodian to ensure business requirements are implemented as intended
- Ensure an optimised team structure is manned by staff that is motivated, empowered and lead by sound performance management and transformational leadership practices
- Promote teamwork, provide support and manage performance by creating and maintaining individual development plans of subordinates
- Assume responsibility for managing manpower, efficient resource allocation, and declaration of competence and reduction of operating cost

**Performance Management and Continuous Improvement**
- Translates business need into Code to ensure value adding user stories
- Drive research and development initiatives to ensure continuous improvement and enhanced