Business Data Manager

1 week ago


South Africa Nedbank Private Wealth Full time R500 000 - R1 200 000 per year

Job Classification

Requisition Melissa Cloete

Business Unit - Nedbank Personal and Private Banking; Private and Wealth Cluster

Location - Nedbank Rivonia Campus, 135 Rivonia Road, Sandton, Johannesburg

Closing Date - 25 November 2025

Employment Equity Statement: Preference will be given to Applicants to Underrepresented Groups

Job Family Information Technology Career Stream It Operations Leadership Pipeline Manage Self: Professional Job Purpose

Lead end-to-end data management across a wide range of businesses and functions within Nedbank Private and Wealth Division. Drive an understanding of data management principles, processes and enterprise frameworks in alignment with the Nedbank and Divisional strategy. 

Job Responsibilities
  • Manage a team of Data Stewards in establishing and implementing data management in line with Nedbank standard, methodologies and policies
  • Analyse data to identify to identify gaps and issues in the data environment for corrective action
  • Lead initiatives to ensure critical data to meet business requirements is accurate, complete and aligns to business context
  • Provide input into, and advise on the alignment between data quality and Nedbank clusters' risk profile and risk appetite by recommending corrective action or mitigating strategies.
  • Engage with stakeholders to obtain an understanding of their data quality practices to contract, manage and meet expectations and lead support for remediations.
  • Support front line community by ensuring the provision of DO errors
  • Support the Risk community by ensuring the trustworthiness of data through DO and data lineage
Job Responsibilities Continue
  • Drive the use of advance data techniques to support the growth of the business
  • Continued involvement and feedback into Divisional leadership and stakeholders as appropriate
  • Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in Nedbank culture building initiatives, business strategy,and CSI and driving the participation of the data community. Ensure issues raised in culture survey are addressed and results are improved.
  • Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, ensuring personal and professional growth.
  • Identify areas of resource inefficiencies and promote optimization.
  • Identify opportunities to influence the improvement or enhancement of business processes and methodologies by researching and recommending improvement initiatives and effective ways to operate and add value to Nedbank.
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
  • Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
Preferred Qualification

Tertiary qualification majoring in Statistics or Qualification in Databases and Decision Support Systems

Essential Certifications
  • DB Certification
Preferred Certifications

DAMA certified data management professional (COMP) or similar data management certification

Minimum Experience Level

5 years experience in a data and / or information technology risk management and governance environment, experience in leading a team 

Technical / Professional Knowledge
  • Principles of project management
  • Relevant regulatory knowledge
  • Relevant software and systems knowledge
  • Business writing skills
  • Information Technology concepts
  • Governance, risk and controls
  • Specific technology of relevant to domain
  • Data base Administration (DBA) Principles and Admin Concepts
  • Relational database
  • Database Restore and Recoveries
Behavioural Competencies
  • Applied Learning
  • Collaborating
  • Customer Focus
  • Initiating Action
  • Work Standards
  • Managing Work
  • Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team



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