Absa Lead Data Engineer - CIB Data Enablement Jobs in South Africa

Absa Lead Data Engineer - CIB Data Enablement Jobs in South Africa

Job Summary

The CIB Data Enablement team within CIB Transactional Banking Tech is looking for a Lead Data Engineer.

Job Description

Leveraging a thorough understanding of the business data requirements & own data subject matter expertise (ahead of trend), set data architecture direction & lead the agile solution design, deployment, implementation & ongoing optimization of enterprise wide data retrieval, storage and distribution across an estate.

Contribute, design and drive book of work for CIB with regards to our Enterprise Library Architecture Strategy.

Analyse and Optimise Data, Source Systems, Principles and Patterns to ensure Data Quality and Maturity.

Implement a data-led culture within the organization with clear accountability and ownership.

Collaboration with Data Engineering to adopt and derive value from current services through advice, guidance and appropriate governance.

Support Data Engineering by translating data-related policies and standards into clear requirements for implementation by all affected teams.

Continuously improve the Data Management and Data Governance capabilities by providing both oversight and serving as Subject Matter Expert for CIB.

Key Accountabilities:

Accountable for providing expert advice to inform the effective implementation of data-related policies and controls, striving to create a single data management framework for the related services to be effective

Develop and maintain policies, standards and best practice guidelines for adoption of data governance and data management services provided to the bank by Data Engineering

Develop and maintain standards and best practice guidelines for Data Engineering to remain compliant with bank policies and assurance requirements

Participate in Data Engineering projects to provide guidance on data governance and data management requirements

Maintain a register of risks and audit findings, requirements or recommendations related to data management or data governance related to Data Engineering, and assist the impacted teams to address or mitigate these items

Support

the users of group-wide data management services from Data Engineering

Training interventions and material to support group adoption of data management services and user upskilling

Facilitate the resolution of issues raised

Create a sustainable community of practice across users

Foster a culture of adding value to the bank and continuous improvement

Practical performance measures

Stakeholder management, including communication and improvement areas

Define and maintain the operating model for data management services and the required governance for consistent use across the group

Analysis of System data to make informed decisions, and implement strategies for Data Management

Education and experience required

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer Science (Required)

Min 5 years experience in:

Financial Services or related industry

MSSQL

SparkSQL

Hadoop

Scala

ETL Tools

BI and MI Data Analytics (beneficial)

Min 2 years experience in:

Compliance, risk and Data Management fields

Managerial/leadership experience

Risk and audit environment

AWS – Kinesis, BigData Patterns

Knowledge & skills:

Communication, facilitation and negotiation

Stakeholder management and change management fundamentals

A structured approach to solving complex problems

Impactful leadership and collaboration

Data security

Data retention and destruction

Data management, including quality, metadata, reference data and master data

Data governance

Risk management

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Absa Lead Data Engineer - CIB Data Enablement Jobs in South Africa

Find daily jobs in South Africa. Jobs - South Africa jobs. Search our career portal & find the latest South African job positions, career opportunities & jobs in South Africa.

Jobs in South Africa - banking jobs, IT jobs, accounting jobs, NGO jobs, business administration, ICT, UN jobs, procurement jobs, education jobs, hospital jobs, human resources jobs, engineering, teaching jobs, and other careers in South Africa.

Find your dream job from 1000s of vacancies in South Africa posted and updated daily - click here!