Specialist: Data Architect 2 Year Contract at Auditor-General of South Africa

Strategic Function

• Assess and cultivate long-term strategic goals for AGSA EDW and data lake in conjunction with data users, Business Units Leaders, clients, and other key stakeholders.
• Coordinate and work with other technical staff to develop database architectures, coding standards, and quality assurance policies and procedures.
• Plan and implement capacity and resource expansion to ensure EDW and data lake scalability.
• Design and implement redundant systems, policies, and procedures for disaster recovery and data archiving to ensure effective availability, protection, and integrity of data assets
• Support the implementation of the business unit balance score card (BSC) initiatives.

Acquisition and Deployment

• Conduct research and make recommendations on ETL tools, EDW and data lake products, services, protocols, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts.
• Evaluate, recommend, and select EDW and data lake components, including hardware, database management systems, ETL (extract, transform, load) software, data mining tools, and metadata management tools.

Operations Management

• Work with end users and BI and Analytics team to identify, create, and deliver reports according to requirements.
• Design and manage ETL, EDW, data lake improvement and growth projects.
• Identify inefficiencies and gaps in current EDW and data lake and leverage solutions.
• Identify data discrepancies and data quality issues, and work to ensure data consistency and integrity.
• Diagnose and resolve AGSA EDW and data lake requirements, access and performance issues.
• Oversee the Installation, management and configure relevant components to ensure AGSA EDW and data lake access.
• Monitor system details within the EDW and data lake, including stored procedures and execution time, and implement efficiency improvements.
• Perform cost estimates for data migration between development, test, and production systems, and plan and coordinate these migrations.
• Develop, implement, and maintain change control and testing processes for modifications to data systems.
• Mentor and/or provide leadership to AGSA members of the team.

Stakeholder Management

•    Establish, build and maintain collaborative working relationships with relevant internal stakeholders.
•    Build and maintain positive and value-adding relationships with relevant external stakeholders.
•    Scan the environment to ensure a clear understanding of stakeholder needs.
•    Proactively interact with stakeholders to determine their needs and deliver on them accordingly.
•    Engage with both internal and external stakeholders to identify and evaluate performance barriers and success in order to continuously improve on the service delivery.
•    Work in collaboration with colleagues in the centre to ensure timeous delivery of the work.
•    Establish and maintain relations with recognised professional bodies within own professional sphere.
•    Manage service level agreements (SLAs).

People Management

•    Manage own performance.
•    Participate in the BU’s transformation, culture, and diversity and employment equity initiatives.
•    Commit to continuous learning and advancing of one’s skills so as to remain abreast with industry trends.

Financial management and operational management

•   Contribute to the compilation of centre budget, and manage project expenditure related to functional area.
•   Ensure compliance to the organisation’s governance processes, policies and processes.
•   Manage supply chain processes within own functional area.

Other responsibilities (Applicable to All JD’s)

• Perform and/or manage other projects, tasks and assignments delegated by the supervisor not stipulated in the role profile description as and when required.

Formal Education

• University degree in the field of computer science, information systems, or computer engineering and 10 years equivalent work experience.
• Certifications : relevant certification to Data Architecture practices
• Compulsory TOGAF certification or other related certifications

Experience

• Working technical experience with designing, building, installing, configuring, and supporting multi-terabyte data warehouses.
• Expert knowledge of the Hadoop ecosystem.
• Applied experience in big data components such as Hive, Scala, Python, NoSQL, Scoop, Flume, Kafka.
• Experience in components necessary to secure and classify the data lake.
• Experience with database platforms,
• Experience implementing data ecosystems with high data volume, high throughput, and various content structures.
• Strong understanding of relational database structures, theories, principles, and practices.
• Hands-on experience with data architecting, data mining, large-scale data modeling, and business requirements gathering/analysis.
• In-depth technical knowledge of network, PC, and platform operating systems
• Working technical knowledge of current systems software, protocols, and standards
• Experie0nce with data processing flowcharting techniques.
• Proven project management and data migration experience.
• Strong understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives.
• Good knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws.