Data and Solutions Architect

Who we are?
Sanlam Investments Group is one of South Africa’s largest investment management companies. We have a performance history spanning over 100 years, and offer a range of investment and financial planning solutions to protect and grow the long-term wealth of our clients.

**We take particular pride in**:

- Sanlam’s longevity and innovation
- People, teamwork and values
- A culture of diversity and commitment to growing our own timber
- Our robust, tested and proven pragmatic investment process and philosophy

Our local and offshore investment products cover the full investment spectrum: active and passive; single and multi-manager - both locally and internationally. Our active funds range are managed according to our pragmatic value investing style. What will you do?
Create and design data and information asset management framework,Manage and own data strategy and architecture for Business Transformation/BI. Create data architecture and data model design,manage the integration of data assets from ingestion into consumption layer and overlaying data governance.Develop, implement and manage the processes and mechanisms for classifying data and information assets in terms of its purpose, sensitivity and quality as well as the level of accCreate and design data and information asset management framework,Manage and own data strategy and architecture for Business Transformation/BI. Create data architecture and data model design,manage the integration of data assets from ingestion into consumption layer and overlaying data governance. Develop, implement and manage the processes and mechanisms for classifying data and information assets in terms of its purpose, sensitivity and quality as well as the level of access control and protection applicable to it. Create/Maintain reference data and master data design. Develop, implement and manage the processes to assess data quality and diagnose and report issues for correction. Using data profiling, data quality monitoring & reporting tools, measure completeness, timeliness, accuracy, consistency, relevance and integrity and ensuring data is fit for its intended uses on the BI platform. Develop, implement and manage the processes for reference data on the BI platform as a special subset of master data that's used for classification throughout the organisation. This includes reference data that is externally mandated or internally authored. This includes process design and tooling discussions.Metadata associated with the data on the BI platform. Develop and implement the end-to-end governance framework and model for creating, controlling and enhancing metadata on the BI platform, manage the processes that track the life-cycle of data on the BI platform from ingestion through to consumption as well as how it changes over time (Data lineage tracking is required for master data, reference data, transactional data and metadata on the BI platform.) Develop physical data management architectures, policies and practices and oversee the execution of procedures to manage data across its lifecycle on the BI platform from acquisition to consumption.Design conceptual, logical, technical solutions and flowcharts for BI assets and Business Transformation solutions.Install and configure information systems to ensure functionality, Migrate data from legacy systems to new solutions, conducting tests, troubleshooting and integrating new elements. Coordinate with clients, data users and key stakeholders and develop and achieve various long term objectives for data architecture. Define security and backup procedures. Determine procedure to identify and collect all required data, validate process and recommend improvements to business data,Oversee and monitor all frameworks to manage data across transformation.Design and provide support to all data management methodologies according to required standards.Monitor and identify appropriate tools and systems. Administer mapping of all data sources and movement and analyse it to ensure appropriate quality of all data.Develop key metrics for tests on data and ensure integrity of same on data architecture. Prepare documents for data architecture and maintain knowledge on large data structure as well.Analyse and understand BI technology stack and entire solution, integration into enterprise architecture, business requirements and create conceptual, logical and technical solution designs. Create solution prototypes,create integration of the data assets into the larger BI solution,participate in design and architecture forums to create alignment with Group. What will make you successful in this role?
Relevant Data system experience in warehousing, ETL, Reporting, Management Reporting, Business Intelligence implementations, migrations and technology selection
Relevant experience delivering business solutions using applicable technology
Understanding of data flow from a technical and business perspective from source to output though Informati