(1877) Senior Information Management Specialist

The main purpose of this position is to guide, coordinate and integrate information management practices and business processes within the Economic Statistics Department and across the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Group to support reliable and effective decision-making.

Responsibilities

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

• Take responsibility for business-as-usual (BAU) resource planning and management to ensure effective delivery and business continuity by balancing demand and supply across projects.

• Develop secure lifecycle management, storage and processing pipelines for national statistical assets by coordinating and integrating information management practices and business processes.

• Develop standards, frameworks, guidelines, processes and procedures for the various data management capabilities within the department, the economic statistics domain and the National Statistical System (NSS).

• Drive the implementation of data management standards, data definitions and access rules to ensure consistent application across the department, the economic statistics domain and the NSS.

• Establish data management indicators to monitor and track logged data- and economic statistics-related issues.

• Manage and coordinate the overall data management maturity assessment within the department, the economic statistics domain and the NSS.

• Identify deliverables, resource and skills requirements, and data-related technologies for data management frameworks and standards to meet business demands.

• Provide input into the development of business continuity and recovery plans for implementation during outages and disasters.

• Partner closely with the compilers of related frameworks and standards, including GSIM, GSBPM, SASQAF and DMBOK, to ensure alignment with relevant statistical and data management related standards and practices.

• Provide integrated reporting on enterprise information management (EIM) operations, including governance structures, projects, demand management and BAU activities.

• Manage the performance and development of direct reports and support the career development of employees in the unit.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must have:

• at least an honours degree (NQF level 8) in computer engineering, computer science, informatics, management information systems or a related field;

• a relevant data management certification, such as Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) Practitioner certification;

• at least eight to ten years’ relevant experience in data and information management; and 

• at least two to three years’ experience in supervising or managing a team will be an advantage

Additional requirements include:

• knowledge and skill in:

  • industry, organisational and business awareness;

  • continuous learning and/or professional development;

  • quality assurance;

  • continuous improvement;

  • business continuity planning;

  • information management strategy;

  • enterprise information management legislation, governance, risk and compliance;

  • enterprise information reporting;

  • enterprise information management project management;

  • change management;

  • information management;

  • enterprise information management skills development; and

  • business intelligence software such as MicroStrategy, Pyramid, OBISS, MicroSoft Power BI.