(1030) Data Steward – NPSD needed at South African Reserve Bank

Job Description

The successful candidate will be responsible for, among others, the following key performance areas:

• Prepare and provide accurate and reliable data and information in support of strategic decisions.
• Acquire new data sources to enable effective departmental decision making.
• Identify and manage data assets within the domain, ensuring alignment and integration across elements.
• Create and maintain consistent metadata to ensure clear and precise data definition, while complying with legislative, quality and security requirements.
• Develop and maintain business metadata for published data sources, ensuring that it is easily discoverable and meaningful to information consumers.
• Provide relevant data for appropriate consumers within the SARB Group and relevant stakeholders and monitor published data sources for feedback on usage, relevance and quality.
• Ensure that the assigned data element is current and does not conflict with other data elements in the metadata registry and ensure consistency in data usage across various systems.
• Monitor and improve data quality through defined metrics, continuous feedback loops and proactive issue resolution.
• Proactively identify and resolve data integrity and quality issues.
• Stay current with developments in all functional areas relevant to information management and ensure appropriate application thereof.
• Propose and implement the refinement and continuous improvement of systems, tools, methods and processes in own area.
• Represent the SARB’s NPSD at the Data Stewards Council.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), Mathematics or an equivalent qualification at NQF 7 level; and
• five to eight years’ experience in data governance, data architecture or metadata management.

The following would be an added advantage:

• DAMA-certified data management professional (CDMP) or similar data management certification.