IT Data Governance Lead

5 days ago

East Rand, South Africa Mediro ICT Full time

The Data Governance Lead is responsible for ensuring the effective working of the data governance structures across the division.

Collaborate closely with business and IT stakeholders in order to gather their data governance requirements, to understand their data, their (Meta) data needs and business context.

Workout the enterprise data governance strategy and roadmap, aligned with the Chief Data Officer.

Develop and implement data governance framework, policies, data governance standards, data protection standards and adoption requirements across the enterprise conform the data governance roadmap.

Monitor and control the data governance framework, policy and standards.

Ensure compliance with data related policies, standards, roles and responsibilities defined by regulator (POPIA, GDPR). Implement and oversee data management controls at strategic & tactical level for regulatory obligations (POPIA, GDPR) while ensuring operability and maintainability in cooperation with business.

Develop and implement data management processes at enterprise level.

Support CDO in the data governance councils.

Define and report on indicators of performance and quality metrics.

Define long term Metadata strategy and capabilities.

Manage Master data that is key to the business.

Define data quality approach.

Manage and monitor data quality reporting.

Support and guide business data stewards with their day-to-day activities.

Drive data remediation initiatives.

Set requirements for data quality, data lineage, data security, data privacy and other relevant aspects for business terms / data assets.

Initiate data management improvements, set data quality, data security, data privacy, data issue remediation guidelines and standards.

Guide and coach others in the field of data management, such as data stewards in the business domains, and encourages the organisation to become ‘data minded’.

**Requirements and experience required**:
Matric plus IT Degree / IT Diploma (Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems or Computer Science or equivalent qualification preferred).

CDPM certification.

Data governance or management certification.
5 years’ experience in IT and with at least 5 years exposure to Data Governance or Data Quality (SAP, BI, Microsoft etc.)
DAMA Framework experience.

Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint).

**Essential skills and knowledge required**:
Deep knowledge and expertise of enterprise data governance framework, policy and standards.

Good understanding of business and technology issues related to management of enterprise information assets.

Thought industry knowledge on data management related government regulatory requirements (GDPR, POPIA).

Broad knowledge and deep practical experience with data quality, data lineage, data security, data privacy, data lifecycle management, data issue remediation and other data-governance practices.

Between 5 - 7 Years

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