Data Governance Analyst at Vodacom

Role Purpose:

• An individual with responsibility for particular information data domain, produced in a business function.  Directly accountable for implementation and adoption of the controls in the Data Governance Policy.  Forging strong relationships with multiple stakeholders across the organisation to implement and help them govern the domains across their functions and to report on the alignment against the Policy with strong recommendations , unlocking and resolving complex business challenges and making recommendations. 
   

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the Data Owners and Stewards in identifying and defining the core business domains and attributes, including glossary.
• Understanding the systems architecture for the business functions they represent and proposing architecture changes.
• Coordinate and Align with data governance project teams and the IT data governance team driving delivery.
• Support the Functional data Owner and Champion in managing their deliverables.
• Design and implement with IT the controls from a technical perspective to ensure all controls are met.
• Understand and document the business processes.
• Align Data Governance with the Security and Privacy teams.
• Consistently Engage stakeholders on delivery objectives.
• Consistent Alignment with Business units, IT teams, and Data Stewards ensuring handover and understanding of the asset is achieved.
• Design and implement the data quality model.
• Support the Vodacom Opcos, with leveraging off SA Data Governance Models and assisting with aligment.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Relevant Degree preferably an Engineering degree.
• Abinitio essential for Data Quality (Express IT) and Business processes.
• Experience working in a Data Governance team for 2 years or more.
• Strong Qliksense development capabilities.
• Strong SQL skills across all databases.
• AWS Training.
• Working experience of 3 – 5 years.
• Strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Strong SQL skills across various systems.
• Strong documentation skills, to be able to document and make recommendations as well as identifying compliance gaps.
• Identification of Data Quality gaps, raising issues and driving resolution.
• Strong process design and refinement skills.
• Clear understanding of organisational strategic objectives, KPIs and business drivers.
• Strong front end visualisation skills in Qliksense and working with Abinitio data models.
• Clear understanding of technical data models, and data structures to ensure Data Governance controls are implemented successfully.
• Experience in Business Intelligence and Analytics within a SAFE Agile Environment.
• Proven track record in successful implementation of Data Driven Initiatives.
• Proven affinity to work across teams.

Closing date for Applications: 10 November 2021