Job Vacancies at Old Mutual South Africa

Detailed Description

• Lead the design, development and implementation of an integrated business model that defines the data structures across the organisation
• Lead the design, development and implementation of solutions to improve and sustain data quality, database performance, data accuracy and data security for digital and non-digital data sets.
• Design and evaluate the effectiveness of solutions that use a combination of business intelligence, analytics, traditional data warehousing and big data services.
• Acquire and manage data to meet ongoing regulatory and business reporting with a key focus on actuarial reserving and capital modelling data.
• Create a business model that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the data architecture.
• Develop and maintain data standards and governance framework.
• Research and present findings on emerging data and architecture concepts and technologies to senior product and data owners.
• Identify opportunities for Business Intelligence to improve customer focus, system thinking and quality of data and functionality.
• Proactively identify data quality issues and provide solutions.
• Oversee the effectiveness of controls that manage large volumes of data daily, weekly and monthly in the ETL processes.
• Provide rules for mastering of data across all key data sets as defined in the enterprise architecture data model.
• Consider disruptive data technologies that would enable changes to fast track the organisations data transformation.
• Establish a focal point for the understanding data and represent the data in way that it can be easily understood across the organization.
   

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering or related field.
• 5 – 8 years’ experience in conceptual, logical and physical data modelling.
• Sound understanding of insurance industry.
• Prior strategic project experience and client relationship management is advantageous.
   

Additional Details

• Align own behaviour with the organisation culture and values.
• Share and transfer product, process and systems knowledge to colleagues.
• Collaborate and work with the HR and IT teams to deliver required service levels.
• Actively share information with other team members regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas.