Senior Information Management Specialist

• Take responsibility for business-as-usual (BAU) resource planning and management to ensure the effective delivery and business continuity to balance demand and supply for work completed by various projects.
• Establish and lead the data management working groups in the various departments.
• Lead the development and maintenance of the EIM Service Catalogue.
• Monitor, measure, and manage the service level agreements associated with approved EIM service requests.
• Determine and identify data management deliverables, resources, and skills requirements as well as data-related technologies to meet business demands and associated budgets.
• Drive the improvement of data management literacy within the organisation by ensuring the development and training of stakeholders.
• Develop business continuity and recovery plans for implementation during outages and disasters.
• Establish and lead the EIM Change Advisory Board to manage and evaluate data-related changes across the organisation.
• Manage and coordinate the overall Data Management Maturity assessment against best practices.
• Coordinate and manage the development of standards, frameworks, guidelines, processes, and procedures across the various data management capabilities.
• Develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote data management awareness across the organisation and support reliable decision-making.
• Provide integrated reporting in relation to EIM operations including, but not limited to, governance structures, projects, demand management, and BAU.

• An honours degree (NQF 8) in Informatics, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related field of study or an equivalent qualification.
• A relevant data management certification (e.g., CDMP Practitioner) will be an added advantage.
• 8 to 10 years of experience in the field of data and information management.
• Business intelligence software such as MicroStrategy, Pyramid, OBISS, Microsoft Power BI.
• ETL development and maintenance with SSIS, IBM DataStage, Oracle ODI, PL/SQL & T/SQL stored procedures, and complex SQL queries.
• Deployment of big data environments (e.g., HADOOP, SPARK, NoSQL, Informatica, SAS, ERWIN, and Teradata).
• Continuous learning and/or professional development.
• Quality assurance.
• Continuous improvement.
• Information management strategy.
• Enterprise information management legislation, governance, risk, and compliance.
• Enterprise information reporting.
• Enterprise information management project management.
• Enterprise information management skills development.
• Contract and associated service management.
• Capacity and performance management.

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