Senior Specialist: Data Management at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

The Senior Specialist Data Management is responsible for a full range of activities, which ensures the operational effectiveness, and excellence of the Data Warehouse concept. The Senior Specialist Data Management will design and document solutions and make appropriate recommendations that will positively impact operational effectiveness. The Analyst will track and resolve production issues within agreed service level agreements. The Business Analyst will be the functional expert on the specified application(s) he/she will be the sole point of contact between the business and the STANLIB Data Warehouse team.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the requirement activities that will be performed and how those activities will be performed on an enhancement, in accordance with any existing standards in the organization.
• Complete, clear, correct and consistent requirements clearly documented and Eliciting requirements is a key task in business analysis.
• Structure raw data collected during requirements elicitation, identify gaps in the information and define and describe the characteristics of an acceptable solution to a business problem.
• Refine documentation based upon stakeholder feedback and iteratively ensure feasibility of the proposed requirements to support the business and user needs, goals and objectives.
• Responsible for written acceptance of understanding of requirements from all stakeholders.
• Analyse documentation and proposed solution must display evidence of ICT drivers and any deviations must be clarified.

Additional Key Responsibilities

• Perform peer reviews on business analysts functional and enhancement specifications.
• Responsible for signing off functional testing and assists with user acceptance sign-off.
• Understand the interdependence and integration of different systems and related processes to apply practically in an area of work.
• Provide specialist advice and support in area of accountability to ensure that identified solutions and recommendations are appropriate and effective.
• Comprehensively test solution to ensure delivery according to identified requirements and document changes for recording and governance purposes.
• Accountable for the improvement of quality, service and work outputs, continuously recommending improvements.
• Plan for the organisation of work outputs and process improvement activities in light of a specific situational context related to the area of specialisation.
• Proactively identify area of specialisation related problems, determine cause and effect and recommend the best option to implement corrective action based on previous experience.

Minimum Experience

• At least 3 to 4 years relevant working experience.
• 2 years Business Intelligence working experience, gained on a variety of solutions (advantageous).
• High level understanding of Microsoft BI Technologies such as SQL, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS (advantageous).
• Asset management experience (advantageous).

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas  in Information Technology and Computer Sciences
• FTI Diploma (advantageous)
• Basic SQL skills (advantageous)
• COBIT (advantageous)
• ITIL (advantageous)
• System thinking (advantageous)

We put our knowledge and insight acquired over the past 16 years, to serving a pan-African market of the future.  Stanlib has received its  second certification as a Top Employer from the Top Employers Institute.