Lead, Business Intelligence & Operations at Standard Bank Group

JOB DESCRIPTION
To lead and coordinate activities around identifying, mapping, and understanding of data to support automation and data analytics activities, and working with data ingestion teams across the Group including GIA to ensure integrity of ingested data to defined Information Warehouse(s) as well as enabling business intelligence reports for auditors and other stakeholders to use.

• Develop and present accurate and timely Management Information & Business Intelligence reports to support GIA strategies and ensure accurate decision making.
• Provide data and insights to facilitate crucial conversations with business stakeholders in order to challenge and resolve governance, risk management and control related issues.
• Provide insights to stakeholders through the analysis of data on client experience in order to recommend areas for improvement and opportunities that exists.
• Drive the identification of opportunities for automation, increasing the breadth and depth of coverage, in collaboration with key stakeholders to ensure alignment to the agreed GIA strategy and drive cost savings.
• Investigate and facilitate innovative ways to uncover insightful stories and communicating them in a way that links to the achievement of the groups strategic objectives and value drivers.
   

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum Qualifications, certifications or professional memberships
• Masters Degree: Mathematical Sciences (Pref)
• Post Graduate Degree in B.Sc. Computer Science / Applied Mathematics / Actuarial Science (Min)
• Certification in Business Intelligence (BI), Advanced Data Analytics, Modelling or Data
• Science (Pref)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Experience Required

• 5 - 7 years: Working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases. Experience building and optimizing big data, data pipelines, architectures and datasets. Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement
• 5 - 7 years: Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets. Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, meta data, dependency and
• workload management. A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets. Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable big data stores.
• 5 - 7 years: Experience with bigdata tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc. Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra. Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc. Experience with
• AWS cloud services:EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift. Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc. Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.

Behavioral & Technical Competencies

• Developing Expertise: Developing Expertise is about individuals being open to learning as well as maintaining an efficient rate at which they learn. Furthermore, aims to develop relevant expertise can apply productively in service of their organisation's goals.
• Developing Strategies: This competency includes facets of behaviour such as being visionary and establishing effective plans that take into consideration long-term aspects. This competency also includes the need for
• individuals to focus on identifying trends.
• Directing People: This competency emphasises the leading or giving direction part of leadership. The effective display of the Leading People competency is highly dependent on the effective display of a number of other competencies. Leading people is about taking control of as well as coordinating people and resources. While there are many different views on what leadership is, in this case, the concern is not focused on what leadership is, but is rather focused on the generic behaviour associated with leading people.