Data Analyst at South African Reserve Bank

Job no.: IR29716

Job title: Data Analyst

Location: Head Office, Pretoria

Organisation: Enterprise Information Management Division

Department: Business Solutions and Technology Department

Brief description

• The purpose of this position is to analyse and provide insight into the current state of data and its maturity, in order to support reliable and effective decision-making within the South African Reserve Bank Group (SARB Group).

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Discover data by applying data discovery mechanisms in order to establish the data sets within the SARB.
• Identify data profiles of datasets discovered in order to determine completeness and compliance as well as for the purpose of inventory management.
• Establish relationships between data elements and their impact on the business.
• Understand business requirements and address matters of data completeness and data quality.
• Conduct analysis in order to track dataset lifecycle from its initial generation to its eventual archival and/or deletion.
• Conduct data analysis in order to determine various categories of data and information.
• Conduct data analysis to determine the importance of the data to the business and the probability of reuse.
• Produce regular reports and provide status updates as well as information for business domain.
• Develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote data management across the organisation and support reliable decision-making and appropriate data usage.
• Provide input as data transitions from source to destination.

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must have:

• A Bachelor’s degree (NQF 7) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science or an equivalent qualification; and
• Five to eight years’ job-related experience within the data analysis environment. 

Additional requirements include:​​​​​​​

• Capacity and performance management
• Extensive knowledge of best practices/methodologies in data warehousing and multi-dimensional data modelling (OLAP e.g. ESSBASE or Microsoft Analysis Services), system design and management;
• Extensive knowledge of most data modelling techniques;
• Extensive knowledge of the most common RDBMS technologies (e.g. Oracle, IBM, SQLServer, MySql);
• Experience in deploying and managing big bata environments (e.g HADOOP, SPARK and NoSQL);
• Knowledge of database query languages (e.g. SQL);           
• Experience with a variety of programming languages, including but not limited to JAVA and C#; and          
• Experience in using a broad variety of integration techniques, patterns, tools and methodologies.  

Additional details 

Career path: Functional Contributor (FC)

Level: FC4

Enquiries relating to this position may be directed to Ms Lebohang Bambo at telephone number: 012 313 3859.