Senior Data Governance and Data Management

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- 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

To support business teams who consume data management services from Data Engineering to adopt and derive value from these services through advice, guidance and appropriate governance. To support Data Engineering by translating data-related policies and standards into clear requirements for implementation by all affected teams. Continuously improve the Data Management and Data Governance capabilities by providing both oversight and serving as Subject Matter Expert.

**Job Description**:

- Accountable for providing expert advice to inform the effective implementation of data-related policies and controls, striving to create a single data management framework for the related services to be effective
- Develop and maintain policies, standards and best practice guidelines for adoption of data governance and data management services provided to the bank by Data Engineering
- Develop and maintain standards and best practice guidelines for Data Engineering to remain compliant with bank policies and assurance requirements
- Participate in Data Engineering projects to provide guidance on data governance and data management requirements
- Maintain a register of risks and audit findings, requirements or recommendations related to data management or data governance related to Data Engineering, and assist the impacted teams to address or mitigate these items
- Support the users of group-wide data management services from Data Engineering
- Training interventions and material to support group adoption of data management services and user upskilling
- Facilitate the resolution of issues raised
- Create a sustainable community of practice across users
- Foster a culture of adding value to the bank and continuous improvement
- Practical performance measures
- Stakeholder management, including communication and improvement areas
- Define and maintain the operating model for data management services and the required governance for consistent use across the group
- Facilitate data-related work groups, steering committees and other forums that Data Engineering is responsible for
- Validate the adherence to agreed standards and best practices by all teams in the department and guide deviating teams on how to address the gaps
- Lead working sessions to help drive documentation of processes, procedures, system interfaces, data dictionaries, data models and requirements for data management services to reach the required levels of coverage and functionality
- Lead a team of data management specialists to support the users of the data management services provided to the group

Education and Experience Required
- BSc Information Technology, or Risk Management or equivalent Diploma
- CISA / CISSP / CISM / CGERT / PMP / DAMA or any other IT Governance related qualification
- 5 years in Financial Services or related industry
- 2 years’ experience in compliance, risk and Data Management fields
- 2 years managerial/leadership experience
- 2 years’ experience in a risk and audit environment

Knowledge & Skills:

- Communication, facilitation and negotiation
- Stakeholder management and change management fundamentals
- Commercial acumen
- Structured approach to solving complex problems
- Impactful leadership and collaboration
- BCBS 239 (RDARR)
- POPIA (Privacy)
- Data security
- Data retention and destruction
- Data management, including quality, metadata, reference data and master data
- Data governance
- Risk management

Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (required)
- Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_