Data Steward - NPSD at South African Reserve Bank

Job Description
Brief description

• The main purpose of this position is to provide support to the National Payment System Department (NPSD) in managing and overseeing data and information assets, ensuring high quality and accessible information for the South African Reserve Bank (SARB).

Detailed description

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

• Prepare and provide accurate and reliable data and information in support of strategic decisions.
• Acquire new data sources to enable effective departmental decision making.
• Identify and manage data assets within the domain, ensuring alignment and integration across elements.
• Create and maintain consistent metadata to ensure clear and precise data definition, while complying with legislative, quality and security requirements.
• Develop and maintain business metadata for published data sources, ensuring that it is easily discoverable and meaningful to information consumers.
• Provide relevant data for appropriate consumers within the SARB Group and relevant stakeholders and monitor published data sources for feedback on usage, relevance and quality.
• Ensure that the assigned data element is current and does not conflict with other data elements in the metadata registry and ensure consistency in data usage across various systems.
• Monitor and improve data quality through defined metrics, continuous feedback loops and proactive issue resolution.
• Proactively identify and resolve data integrity and quality issues.
• Stay current with developments in all functional areas relevant to information management and ensure appropriate application thereof.
• Propose and implement the refinement and continuous improvement of systems, tools, methods and processes in own area.
• Represent the SARB’s NPSD at the Data Stewards Council.

Qualifications
Job requirements

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

• a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), Mathematics or an equivalent qualification at NQF 7 level; and
• five to eight years’ experience in data governance, data architecture or metadata management.

The following would be an added advantage:

• DAMA-certified data management professional (CDMP) or similar data management certification.

Additional requirements include:

• enterprise information management (EIM) legislation, governance, risk management and compliance knowledge and skill;
• EIM reporting knowledge and skill;
• information governance knowledge and skill;
• data security knowledge and skill;
• reference and master data knowledge and skill;
• metadata management knowledge and skill;
• data quality management knowledge and skill;
• knowledge of the Data Product Life Cycle (DPLC);
• continuous improvement knowledge and skill;
• competency in the use of Microsoft (MS) Office software packages (e.g. MS Excel, MS Word and MS PowerPoint);
• excellent verbal and written communication skills (including presentation and report-writing skills);
• analytical and problem-solving skills;
• judgement and decision-making skills;
• planning and organising skills;
• a drive for results;
• building and managing relationships;
• a stakeholder and client focus;
• impact and influence;
• flexibility; and
• innovation and creativity.

Deadline:13th February,2026