Head: Business Intelligence at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• Responsible for all activities related to the administration of computerised databases. Assigns personnel to various projects and directs their activities; reviews and evaluates their work and prepares performance reports. Confers with and advises subordinates on administrative policies and procedures, technical problems, priorities and methods. Consults with and advises users of the various databases. Projects long range requirements for database administration and design in conjunction with other managers in the information systems function. Prepares activity and progress reports regarding the database management section.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Contribute to the SRM Strategy for Data Governance and Business Intelligence required to support better data custodianship, integrity and usage across the cluster.
• Ensure collaboration with senior stakeholders across the SRM cluster to enable decision-making, insights and actions across the cluster. Understand the data, systems and architecture of front-end and back-end applications. Design of enterprise level Business Intelligence solutions including Self Service BI Solutions.
• Implementation of all data-related projects that will enable business to become more data driven, using analytics and data insights.
• Establish and embed a data driven culture within the assigned sub-segment/pillar/domain/functional area.
• Drive cross segment integration between data and analytics to realise value of data as an asset while meeting business-related and function-related Data and Analytics requirements to enable a platform business.
• Establish and embed a data driven culture within the assigned sub-segment/pillar/domain/functional area
• Demonstrate leadership behaviour through personal involvement, commitment and dedication in support of organisational values.
• Drive the implementation and adoption of data and governance strategy.
• Ensure Data Security for the cluster by identifying security gaps within the data environment and implementing security best practices.
• Provide continuous improvement on reporting and analytics’ methods.
• Disaster planning – must be able to implement and execute on DR plans for all Database environment.

Qualification and Experience

• Degree or Diploma and the required Certification with 8 to 10 years related experience.

Knowledge and Skills

• Computerised database administration and management
• Quality assurance, performance and progress reporting
• Project Oversight
• IT governance and compliance
• Technologies

Personal Attributes

• Directs work - Contributing through others
• Manages complexity - Contributing through others
• Plans and aligns - Contributing through others
• Optimises work processes - Contributing through others

Core Competencies

• Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others
• Customer focus - Contributing through others
• Drives results - Contributing through others
• Collaborates - Contributing through others
• Being resilient - Contributing through others