Data Team Lead (Nedbank Insurance) at Nedbank

Job Purpose

This role is responsible for transforming the organisation into a business that truly differentiates and competes on data and analytics by managing the design, delivery and maintenance of data that provides business with the relevant insights that enable improved business decision making across all key parts of the value chain.

Job Responsibilities

• Oversee the delivery of data solutions and insights.
• Oversee data sourcing, data models and data mining activities to support data strategy and governance initiatives.
• Contribute to data integrity and cleansing activities required to increase the quality of data within the organisation.
• Elicit business requirements to uncover data opportunities, functionality, and processes required in order to recommend the appropriate solution.
• Provide frameworks to best identify, understand, and interpret data structures across various databases within the business to facilitate data analysis and continous monitoring actitivies.
• Work with line management to develop quick win strategy and longer term operational requirements.
• Make and validate recommendations based on cost and feasibility.
• Deliver work products according to the agreed time lines and within agreed budget.
• Deliver proof of concepts to customers and obtain the necessary sign-off.
• Communicate new features to stakeholders through forums.
• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy (e.g. Green Strategy).
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to Nedbank.
• Participate in research that will enable recommendations related to system software.

Qualifications:

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• B.Degree in IT
• DATA certification

Experience Level

• 7 to 10 years Information Techonology experience, of which 5 - 7 years in data related experience.