Data Steward

About the role

Standard Bank Group is hiring a permanent Data Steward to implement data and information standards and quality within their area of responsibility. The role ensures data is used, accessed and stored in line with risk, compliance, policy and governance requirements, and maintains data quality throughout the data lifecycle using approved tools and methodologies.

Key responsibilities

• Define local and enterprise information needs and implement data curation and data-quality metrics, including values, ranges and parameters for each data element.
• Apply data retention, destruction, criticality and sensitivity requirements, including access controls, archiving and encryption.
• Maintain critical data elements and capture business terms and definitions in the enterprise business glossary.
• Support reference data management, metadata, business rules and records management in line with the Enterprise Data Committee dashboard and data strategy.
• Complete required paperwork for the Enterprise Data Committee, Risk and EIM dashboards, and act as Subject Matter Expert with IT, Data Stewards and Risk.
• Identify data anomalies and root causes, highlight their business impact and drive remediation under the Enterprise Information Management methodology.
• Enable data monetisation while protecting risk, security, compliance and privacy, and support the rollout of the Data Governance programme.
• Document regulatory and legal restrictions, and help socialise data management and quality with internal stakeholders.

Required profile

• First degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Information Science or a related field; data management certification (e.g. CDMP, CIMP) preferred.
• 3-4 years of experience in a data role covering data architecture, governance, analysis, validation and metadata management, and the data life cycle.
• 1-2 years of experience in the banking environment and its regulatory and governance standards.
• Experience planning and executing an enterprise information management framework.
• Understanding of root cause analysis, SDLC, ETL and data flows between systems.

Required skills

• Data management and data integrity
• Data analysis and reporting
• Business acumen (audit) and process governance
• Process analysis and redesign