Senior Specialist: Data/information Architect

**Job Reference Number**: Recruit174
**Department**: Tax
**Business Unit**:
**Industry**: Information Technology

**Job Type**: Contract
**Positions Available**: 1
**Salary**: Market Related

**Job Description**:
**Responsibilities/Tasks**:
**Process**
- Conduct audits to ensure compliance with data security and quality requirements.
- Define data and information standards, catalogues, policies, capabilities, future states etc. for approval via the appropriate governance structures i.e. Architecture Review Board and/or Solution Review Board. Through multiple initiatives, drive the rationalization of the data environment for optimised strategic delivery.
- To define and manage baseline data architecture landscape (AS IS)
- Definition and Management of Future State Data Architecture To define and manage target data architecture landscape (To be)
- Determine and maintain an enterprise data architecture framework including the enterprise data model, information value chain analysis, logical and physical data models, and give input to business analysts on new or changed systems requirements.
- Develop and maintain a metadata architecture including standards, integration, storage, sharing, queries, reporting, managing glossaries, dictionaries and directories, and metadata repositories.
- Develop and maintain the data strategy, estimating value of data, data management costs and justify the data management strategy.
- Develop and maintain the enterprise data model, including the logical and the physical data models, review data models and database designs.
- Ensure that Database Administration and Data Security Management staff are properly trained and adhere to standards, policies and procedures.
- Ensure that there are clear engagement models with all stakeholders, and continually and carefully manage relationships with stakeholders.
- Establish and co-ordinate the activities of a data governance committee.
- Formulate standards, policies, etc. that are in line with data strategy, assess data technology evolution and recommend best fit data solutions, and plan the introduction and roadmap of such evolving technologies.
- Produce, implement and monitor data integration / privacy standards, policies and procedures.
- Produce, implement and monitor data quality requirements.
- Produce, implement and monitor data security standards, policies and procedures including access views, access permissions, password standards and user authentication.
- To analyse the gaps between the Baseline and Target Data Architectures. And do a recommendation to the stakeholder
- To develop roadmaps for the realisation of Future State Data Architectures. And do a recommendation to the stakeholder
- Validate models of data produced by systems developers ensuring consistency with a corporate data model.
- Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures and associated area's practice.
- Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans.
- Develop a single practice area in alignment with operational activity and procedural frameworks and ensure tactical implementation.
- Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge & experience to identify & recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
- Integrate business information, compare, analyse & produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies & inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
- Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practices, processes & systems across an internal value chain.
- Plan for value-added, continuous practice & system improvements to deliver on objectives to enhance tactical implementation and excellence.
- Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives, best practice implementation solutions.
- Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice area and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
- Translate top-down policy in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders.

**Governance**
- Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area to identify and manage risk exposure liability.

**People**
- Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.
- Provide specialist know-how, support, advice and practice thought leadership in area of expertise.

**Finance**
- Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation.

**Client**
- Develop & ensure implementation of a practice that builds service delivery excellence & encourage others to provide exceptional stakeholder service.
- Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organ