Lead Spec: Storage & Database at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

• Responsible for leading and continuously improving an information technology functional operating model and framework in a broadly defined group functional strategy; enabling horizontal alignment, implementation, and adoption within IT storage management and databases.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to strategy enablement and implementation and delivery optimisation across an internal value chain, through best practice development and implementation.
• Develop alternatives and identify optimal best practice solutions for tactical problems.
• Develops and maintains procedures and documentation for databases. Contributes to the setting of standards for definition, security and integrity of database objects and ensures conformance to these standards.
• Work with Product Management and service providers to ensure economic prioritisation and demand-to-capacity matching.
• Own domain-specific Disaster Recovery strategy, testing and execution aligned to the broader enterprise Business Continuity Management context.
• Lead Domain specific strategy development and implementation, governance, delivery execution and IT operations in the enterprise (end-to-end ownership) in storage and data based on the level of criticality of the information.
• Work with System Architect/Engineering to understand Enabler work to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the technological infrastructures that will host the new business functionality.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Information Technology and Computer Sciences.
• Skilled in Agile Methodology.
• Preferred - SAFe Agilist (Leading SAFe).
• Preferred - AWS Certified Solutions Architect .
• Associate Certification.
• Preferred - Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals.

Minimum Experience

• 5 - 8 years experience in a similar environment, of which 2 - 3 years at specialist level.