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  • Posted: Aug 7, 2025
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • The Auditor-General of South Africa ("AGSA") is established in terms of section 181(1) (e) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (Act No.108 of 1996) as a state institution supporting the constitutional democracy. The constitutional functions of the AGSA are set out in section 188 of the Constitution and sections 4 of the Public...
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    Specialist: Data Architect 2 Year Contract

    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.

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    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Auditor-General of South Africa on careers.agsa.co.za to apply

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