(660) Information Management Specialist – BSTD needed at South African Reserve Bank

Detailed description

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

• Support the business in the implementation of the various data management disciplines (i.e. reference and master data management, data quality management, metadata management, data modelling as well as design and data security).
• Provide a consolidated and integrated view of the information landscape within the SARB Group to support different use cases.
• Rationalise the information landscape within the SARB Group for the purpose of continuous improvement and effectiveness.
• Oversee and manage the information life cycle and related interdisciplinary activities, from data acquisition, retention, archival and deletion.
• Facilitate changes related to data and information, analyse the impact thereof, and coordinate the implementation of information management activities based on the changes.
• Ensure alignment between the various data management disciplines to promote cross-functional cohesion in providing business value.
• Lead and participate in engagements with stakeholders within the SARB Group and external parties to ensure service delivery.
• Provide input into how data is stored, maintained and used in the database management implementation process.
• Provide periodic reports, including technical reports, as well as information management reports for decision-making purposes.
• Develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote data management across the organisation and to support reliable decision-making and appropriate data usage.  
• Participate and provide technical support in cross-organisation activities relating to any of the above-mentioned data management activities.

Qualifications

Job requirements

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

• A Bachelor’s degree (NQF 7) in Informatics, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or an equivalent qualification; and
• five to eight years’ experience in the field of data management.

Additional requirements include:

• knowledge and skill in:
• industry, organisational and business awareness;
• continuous learning and/or professional development;
• continuous improvement;
• business continuity planning;
• IT enablement legislation, governance, risk and compliance;
• best practices/methodologies in data warehousing and multi-dimensional data analytics (e.g. OLAP, such as ESSBASE or Microsoft analysis services), systems design and management;
• the most common RDBMS technologies (e.g. Oracle, IBM, SQL Server and MySQL);
• deploying and managing big data environments (e.g. Hadoop, Spark and NoSQL);
• database querying languages (e.g. SQL);
• a variety of programming languages, including but not limited to R and Python;
• development using a broad variety of integration techniques, patterns, tools and methodologies; and
• all the data management disciplines.