Enterprise Data Management – Delivery Lead at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

The following responsibilities must be fulfilled:

Enterprise EDM Portfolio Ownership

• Provide input into the consolidated EDM portfolio, ensuring alignment and coherence across initiatives, capabilities, services, and divisions
• Translate strategic priorities into structured, sequenced execution roadmaps
• Provide a single, authoritative view of portfolio scope, progress, risks, and interdependencies
• Maintain and continuously refine the EDM capability and adoption roadmap
• Lead prioritisation of the DMG Book of Work (BoW), balancing regulatory, risk, and business demand within defined constraints
• Make sequencing and prioritisation decisions within agreed guardrails, escalating only where required
• Align demand, service delivery and capacity to enable predictable and efficient execution

Delivery Coordination & Portfolio Integration

• Provide integrated oversight and management of all EDM initiatives and use case implementations
• Coordinate across delivery teams, vendors and stakeholders to manage dependencies and sequencing, including managing other project managers and scrum masters where necessary for delivery across the portfolio
• Ensure delivery commitments remain aligned to portfolio priorities and stakeholder expectations
• Support and coordinate enterprise adoption and change activities, including communication, readiness, and transition support
• Ensure consistent, transparent communication of priorities, progress, and adoption expectations

Business Engagement and Divisional Representation

• Translate insights and feedback from divisions into targeted improvement actions and roadmap adjustments
• Represent the Data Management and Governance (DMG) function in enterprise and divisional working forums and tactical governance structures
• Provide structured portfolio reporting, insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders
• Support leadership with evidence-based inputs for decision-making and escalation

Education and Experience Required

• Minimum 5–8 years’ experience in enterprise data management, data governance, portfolio/project management or a related discipline
• Experience supporting and coordinating delivery roadmaps spanning multiple initiatives and stakeholders within a large or complex organisation
• Demonstrated experience coordinating data‑related initiatives, services or platforms (e.g. data quality, metadata, analytics enablement, regulatory data initiatives)
• Experience operating in a federated operating model, balancing central coordination with divisional delivery and accountability
• Knowledge of data management technologies, such as Informatica or Ataccama would be advantageous
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Business, Risk Management, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience)