Specialist: Data Architecture at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• Oversees the design and implementation of data flow and content integration by creating a series of interconnected and bidirectional data pipelines that serve various business needs from source systems to information consumption.

Job Description

Key accountabilities 

• Provide a standard common business vocabulary, express strategic data requirements, outline high level integrated designs to meet these requirements, and align with enterprise data strategy and related business architecture.
• Set data architecture principles, create models of data that enable the implementation of the intended business architecture, create diagrams showing key data entities, and create an inventory of the data needed to implement the architecture vision
• Embed data architecture (models, policies, rules, standards and governance) in the build of information assets for business consumption.
• Liaise with business users to understand requirements, and  technology teams to establish data availability and specific business rules to be applied to the data.
• Design the databases and data flow to address business requirements
• Assemble large, complex data sets to meet functional / non-functional requirements
• Source data from internal and external data sources, engaging with technical subject matter experts

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Data Science, Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Information Technology