Data Lead

Job Description

Hello Future Data Lead

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Now, is the time to imagine your next move with South Africa’s number one employer in Financial Services for 2025, where you can embrace the power of collective thinking to unlock unique opportunities for our clients and society.

This role entails developing operational plans to support the data strategy and execute in area of responsibility in order to derive value from data. Adhering to and driving the adoption of the FirstRand Information Governance Framework and the Information Architecture policy within area of responsibility. Embedding information management within operational processes.

Are you someone who can:

- Prevent wastage and identify process improvements to contain and reduce costs
- Contribute to the development of a budget aligned to operational delivery plans, monitor effectiveness, and report on variances
- Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration and innovation
- Take all necessary actions to ensure compliance with relevant statutory, legislative, policy and governance requirements in area of accountability
- Ensure implementation of relevant policies, governance and practice standards across the business Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and business's internal compliance procedures and requirements
- Ensure compliance is adopted in terms of systems and procedures as laid out by business
- Implement and provide input into the development of governance and compliance procedures and processes within area of specialisation and identify risks
- Ensure adoption and localisation of common frameworks, practices, processes, standards and integration of business data value chain
- Ensure alignment of data and goals with the reduction of total cost of ownership, long term support costs and landscape complexity
- Ensure ethical usage of data and information that complies to restrictions applied for privacy and sensitivity classification
- Understand and ensure implementation and adherence to Privacy business requirements, legislation and policy Ensure reporting of any Data Privacy Incidents and drives resolution of Privacy and Protection Audit Findings, Complaints, Incidents, Investigations and Privacy and Protection Assessments
- Ensure data which is mastered in the relevant business unit is replicated to the enterprise data platform in appropriate format utilising existing data structures and appropriate tools
- Implement and adhere to the appropriate Information Management and Governance standards and practices as a Supplier/Owner of Data
- Assume accountability for deriving, delivering and managing Data Product from the data under business ownership via the group's data architecture
- Assume accountability for provisioning data from their system only
- Ensure that operational processes requiring data are properly and robustly productionized for sustainability
- Ensure adherence to appropriate information management practices, Information Architecture Framework and delivers operational robustness
- Manage business data sharing function across enterprise by driving awareness of data products and adoption throughout the organisation to extract business value where appropriate
- Lead relevant change and communications functions to drive functional maturity
- Assume accountability for how data will be sourced, modelled, stored, consumed, integrated and managed to meet strategic business requirements and answer analytical questions
- Manage integration of data for business and creation of data mart to answer business questions, including data warehousing management
- Ensure data through the various data supply chains is secured and any risks associated to privacy is mitigated
- Define data architecture principles to be adopted by the business in adherence to Information Architecture Framework
- Ensure applicable data product is productionized accordingly to appropriate policies and standards and utilizing the appropriate Group platforms
- Manage business Information management (information architecture; metadata; master and reference data; data development and warehousing; content, document and records; data quality, storage and operations; information security and data privacy management) to ensure required standards and practices across data production, management and consumption
- Create tactical plans for achievement of outputs / deliverables in collaboration with Technology stakeholders to ensure the effective implementation of information technology solutions to support information management requirements
- Manage business BI function to production