DATA STEWARD (12 MONTHS CONTRACT)
Position summary
Introduction
Job description
Data Governance & Security:
- Implementation of procedures, guidelines and standards to ensure alignment and compliance to corporate governance policies, protocols and practices regarding the responsible use and distribution of data
- Overseeing data access and ensuring usage policies are understood and approved
- Involvement in data integration, migration & data cleansing
- Engaging with data custodians and IT architects during data classification exercises
- Approval of data-retention and data archiving criteria
Data Quality:
- Establishing procedures for the detection, correction and prevention of data-quality issues
- Recommending solutions to data challenges and achieving compromises that enhance the use and management of data across the Food group
- Collaborating with stakeholders to resolve issues or obstacles affecting the quality of data
- Engaging through Centres of Excellence (COEs) and leadership channels to define data quality control mechanisms (establishing KPI's to drive data quality, for example)
- Establishing data management monitoring capabilities (incl. dashboards and/or reports) that can be used to monitor, measure and drive better behaviour
- Data profiling and validation of data in terms of the expected data quality requirements
- Data support during analysis and testing phases (where relevant)
Meta Data & Data Definition Management:
- Definition and maintenance of business measure definitions and rules; requiring engagement with stakeholders to agree on common definitions and calculations of analytic and reporting data
- Enhancing and maintaining a meta data repository for relevant/critical data elements
- Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for Food to answer metadata requests (access and interpretation) for business metadata
Other Supporting Processes
- Project integration for data management assessment and risk (including data quality)
- Partner with our learning academy to train elements of data literacy related to understanding data
- Work alongside BI analysts and technical specialists to analyse, define, source and model the data required by the Food group for reporting and analytics
- Identify and understand gaps related to the availability/accessibility of critical data elements (current and future) and develop strategies to address
- Validation of business rule conformance in calculations and data aggregations
- Manage any changes to data definitions, usage, access, policies, and administration in compliance with data governance standards and practices across the Food group
Minimum requirements
Technical Competence:
- Relevant qualification, i.e. B.Com or equivalent
- Strong SQL skills
- Advanced Excel
- Good understanding of Data Modelling & Data Warehousing concepts
- Excellent analytical skills and experience in data analysis
- BI Visualization tools (i.e. QlikSense) experience preferable
- Ability to work with large data sets and experience with integrating many data sources for reporting and analysis purposes
- Strong understanding of and sensitivity towards data integrity and cleanliness
- Understanding of processes and the systems development life cycle
- 3-5 years' experience related to the above requirements
Behavioural:
- Ability to think strategically (display foresight)
- Ability to work in a cross-functional environment
- Curios about data and passionate about the retail industry and applying analytics to enhancing the retail experience
- Excellent attention to detail, in terms of numerical data as well as presentation precision and elegance
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and comfortable working collaboratively
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Strong business acumen
- An analytical approach to problem solving
- Good time management and the ability to manage multiple requests/tasks
- Planning and organising ability
- A strong customer service focus
- Passion for the brand and customers
- Making insightful business decisions