Data Analyst at South African Reserve Bank

Detailed description

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

•   Prepare and provide accurate and reliable data and information products in support of strategic decisions.
• Discover data by applying data discovery mechanisms in order to establish the datasets within the South African Reserve Bank (SARB).
• Identify the data profiles of the datasets discovered in order to determine their completeness and compliance as well as for the purpose of inventory management.
• Establish relationships between data elements and their impact on the business.
• Understand the business requirements, and address matters of data completeness and data quality. 
• Conduct analysis in order to track the dataset life cycle from its initial generation to its eventual archival and/or deletion.
• Conduct data analysis in order to determine the various categories of data and information. 
• Conduct data analysis in order to determine the importance of the data to the business and the probability of reuse. 
• Produce regular reports and provide status updates as well as information for the business domain. 
• Develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote data management across the organisation.
• Support reliable decision making and appropriate data usage.
• Provide input as data transitions from source to destination.

Qualifications

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

• a Bachelors (NQF 7) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Data Science, or an equivalent qualification; and
• a minimum of five to eight years’ experience job-related experience within the data analysis environment

Additional requirements include:

• capacity and performance management. 
• Microsoft data and analytics technology stack (including Power BI, Fabric)
• Ralph Kimball dimensional modelling
• Business Intelligence semantic layer
• Data governance