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SOUTH AFRICAN POST OFFICE (SAPO)
 
INTERNAL & EXTERNAL
 
Job Title: Head Data Management & Business Intelligence (L4) – 1 POSITION
(Position based in Pretoria, NPC)
Reports to: Chief Information Officer
 
Summation
The person in this position will be responsible for leading the Architecture and Innovation team. Also responsible data sourcing, ETL, Data Management, Data Infrastructure design for high end data engineering capabilities and analytics enablement.
 
 
Key Responsibilities
Business Intelligence:
• Form part of a highly technical environment and partner with Senior and Executive management to generate significant value-add to the business.
• Outline the rolling Business Intelligence strategy and automating the analytics environment as well as providing business insights.
• Manage the Business Intelligence team and work closely with the development and engineering teams.
• Automate analytics environment as far as possible, to maximize resources available to deliver advanced (predictive and prescriptive) business insights.
• Integrate Business Intelligence reporting and analytic tools into core processes across business units; play a key role in the product lifecycle management process.
 

Management:
• Provide regular progress reports to the CIO;
• Manage day-to-day Business Intelligence requests from internal clients and together with senior and executive management, develop a prioritization framework.
• Manage the team through setting of and monitoring of KPA and provide the required leadership and mentorship – establish principles and processes to ensure the team spends time on personal training, development and mentoring that is aligned with their job profiles.
• Manage & Enhance Business Intelligence and Reporting
 
Data Management:
• Roll out an enterprise wide Data Governance Operating Framework
• Ensure that all divisions within the company adhere and adopt to the set governance standards through stakeholder management
• Focus on improvement of Data Governance and Data Quality through modification of organization behaviour, policies, standards, principles, governance metrics, processes, related tools as well as Data Architecture
• Collaborate with Risk and Legal departments to interpret data-related acts and laws
• Translate compliance requirements to technical and business requirements for IT and data stewards to action
 
All the above roles interface with:
• Business, Service Providers, IT Production Services, IT Applications support, Project teams, IT Business Unit Heads
 
 
Minimum Requirements:
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, systems analysis or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience. NQF Level 7
Experience:
• 10+ years Business Intelligence experience
• Data Analysis experience
• Data Warehousing experience
• 3 + years managerial experience
• Expert level in Data Visualisation Technology - QlikView, Power BI and Qlik Sense
• Experience working on data science related projects
• Data bases – SQL
• Big Data Technologies - NoSql, Hadoop (Advantage)
• Cloud Platform experience - AWS, Google, Azure etc. (Advantage)
 
Knowledge and understanding of:
• Deep understanding of databases, data science and data modelling
• Understanding of designing, integrating and managing complex infrastructure solutions
• Strong understanding of risk, data compliance, management and reporting.
 
Skills and Attributes:
• Interpersonal, Analytical, Written and verbal Communication, Time management, Problem-solving, sound knowledge of economic and financial theories; knowledge of the regulatory environment; strong technical skills and a working understanding of information technology; sound knowledge of research methodologies; Business and process analysis; Relationship Management; Best Practice Benchmarking; Data Science and Analytics; Financial Management and Planning; Transformation strategy. People management.
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The South African Postbank SOC Limited is committed to achieving and maintaining of diversity and equity in employment, especially with regard to race, gender and disability. In compliance with the banks employment equity plans, first preference will be given to candidates from designated groups. Correspondence will be limited to short listed candidates only.
 
If you wish to apply, please forward your Curriculum Vitae (CV) to recruitment@postbank.co.za.
Please indicate in the subject line the position you are applying for. 
 
Closing Date: 11 September 2020
 
Position Number: 60052296
 
Cost Centre: 50800
 
Correspondence will be limited to short-listed candidates only. If you do not hear from the South African Postbank within 3 months of this advertisement, please accept that your application has been unsuccessful. The South African Post Office Limited reserves the right not to fill this position or to re-advertise the positions at any time.