(1807) Data Steward - GSMD

Location: Pretoria, South Africa

Brief description

The main purpose of this position is to act as a data steward and support the information management function in managing and overseeing data and information assets to provide the business with high-quality and consistently accessible data and information.

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Prepare and provide accurate and reliable data and information in support of strategic decisions.

• Acquire new data sources to enable effective departmental decision-making.

• Create and maintain consistent metadata in a manner that allows for clear and unambiguous data definitions and meets legislative, quality and security requirements.

• Create and maintain business metadata for published data sources to ensure they are easily discoverable and meaningful to information consumers.

• Prepare relevant data for appropriate consumers in the SARB Group and relevant stakeholders, and monitor published data sources for usage, relevance and quality feedback.

• Ensure that assigned data elements are current, do not conflict with other data elements in the metadata registry and are used consistently across various systems.

• Proactively identify and resolve data integrity and quality issues.

• Stay current with developments in all functional areas relevant to information management and ensure their appropriate application.

• Propose and implement refinements and continuous improvements to systems, tools, methods and processes in own area.