Data Quality Analyst

About the role

Standard Bank Offshore, the offshore arm of the Standard Bank Group, is looking for a Data Quality Analyst. The role contributes to the development and implementation of the data quality and reporting strategy and to remediation strategies, and monitors operational efforts to remediate data across business units.

Key responsibilities

• Ensure consistency of use of data quality artefacts across the relevant business units.
• Assist in enforcing and embedding approved governance principles and policies, and escalate data element governance violations.
• Participate in and adhere to IT production change governance requirements.
• Execute against the defined data standards and business rules for data capture and usage, working with Data Stewards and business stakeholders.
• Identify critical data elements with Data Stewards and Data Managers so that business rules for data quality can be signed off.
• Ensure regular data extraction and profiling for the customer domain, and profile large volumes of data regardless of source system.

Required profile

• First degree in Information Technology.
• 3-4 years of experience in Data & Analytics.
• Data management experience with knowledge of data quality, including data quality management for financial services data.
• Project management experience and exposure to governance and regulatory matters relating to data.

Required skills

• Knowledge of systems and data principles underlying data quality management.
• Behavioural competencies: interpreting data, examining information, checking things, upholding standards, team working.
• Technical competencies: data architecture, data integrity, data management (administration), information management.