job Openings at Sanlam Private Wealth

Job description

Key Responsibilities:

• Set up a Data Governance Framework
• Develop strategies for Master Data Management including data acquisition, integration and archiving
• Perform enterprise data model validation and customization in discussion with different stakeholder groups
• Define Data Quality Standards based on business rules
• Design, maintain, optimize and build conceptual, logical and physical database models for relational databases, data warehouses and multidimensional database to satisfy application requirements
• Implementation of the data quality and business rules and migration data mapping
• Design data solutions based on business strategy, client needs, best-practice knowledge, considering application design and development, integration and control of data, and the future technology direction, including migration plans to move from current to target state architecture.
• Assist in ensuring that all aspects of the solution design and implementation are done according to the agreed architecture frameworks, architectural principles and standards, continuously driving towards future state architecture.
• Provide data and related application architecture related thought leadership to the management team and related project leaders where architectural expertise is required and as input to solutions design
• Using appropriate tools, contribute to the development of the data and application architecture repository
• Produce detailed component specification guidelines as input into solution design
• Provides advice on architectural aspects of system development and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.)
• Ensure that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) are applied in line with defined architecture
• Build networks with vendors, the wider Sanlam Group, carryout research and consult industry experts with regard to best practice and technology trends

Minimum Requirements:

• Tertiary qualification
• 2 – 5 years of experience in data analysis, data modelling processes and techniques
• Experience in Financial Services Industry advantageous
• Working knowledge of TOGAF methodology advantageous

Technical Competencies:

• Experience with Data Modelling (conceptual, logical and physical), Data Warehousing (data analysis, data mart design and build)
• Business Intelligence (reporting to advanced analytics including real-time analytics)
• Data Integration (patterns and technologies, real-time data streaming & virtualisation)
• Broad understanding of data quality management, data governance, master and reference data management, metadata management, data security and document and content management

Behavioural Competencies:

• Strong numerical orientation
• Highly organized with a high level of customer focus
• Accurate and attention to detail
• Critical and analytical capability
• Big picture thinker
• Ability to perform well under pressure and show maturity, confidence and resilience
• Excellent listening, communication and interpersonal skills
• Pro-Active approach to work, clients, problem solving
• Learning agility and curiosity
• Assertive
• Accountability and Passionate ownership for results

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Job description

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify, investigate and analyse problems faced by business and product owners and propose documented solutions that fully address the business requirements needed to optimize the business
• Accountable for soliciting requirements and process solution design through conducting requirement sessions, interviews and reviewing existing documentation (works closely with Business Analyst, Systems Analyst and Project Manager)
• Collaborate with stakeholders to document and maintain business process maps, business requirement definitions and business requirements specifications
• Critically evaluate business processes in order to establish their value and make innovative recommendations that will positively impact the business and improve client service
• Contribute to continuous innovation through the development, sharing and implementation of new ideas and the involvement of colleagues and staff
• Develop process solutions that encompass the entire system (people, process and technology)
• Identify areas of user technical / system training and assist with roll-out plans
• Contribute to the successful implementation/management of projects in order to achieve the business outcome
• Positively influence and contribute to managing change and offer specialist support where required
• Conduct surveys/time studies to assess the effectiveness of business processes and provide the results to assist in the identification of future improvements.
• Identify and analyse deficiencies, loopholes, etc. in operational processes and propose a way forward to effectively deal with them
• Investigate and propose process optimization opportunities in the context of best practice to achieve operational excellence
• Research best practices and recommend improvements to current organizational service delivery processes
• Apply the necessary discretion and judgement in making decisions and to overcome problems, in order to achieve set operational goals and objectives such as cost effectiveness and increase operational efficiency
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers and organizational role players to achieve optimal cross process integration
• Research and use adequate tools to model processes/workflows in universal modelling languages
• Document and maintain all the work around the process development to a professional standard
• Ensure processes within the business are operating in a client centric manner

Minimum Requirements:

• Tertiary qualification
• 2 – 5 years of experience as a business analyst/business process analyst
• Experience in business process design and business rule analysis and solutions design
• Experience in Financial Services Industry advantageous

Technical Competencies:

• Ability to learn and utilize new software quickly
• Ability to understand and design workflows using BPM software
• Experience in implementing new processes or products
• Process modelling experience and skills

Behavioural Competencies:

• Strong numerical orientation
• Highly organized with a high level of customer focus
• Accurate and attention to detail
• Critical and analytical capability
• Big picture thinker
• Ability to perform well under pressure and show maturity, confidence and resilience
• Excellent listening, communication and interpersonal skills
• Pro-Active approach to work, clients, problem solving
• Learning agility and curiosity
• Assertive
• Accountability and Passionate ownership for results