Head: Data (f/m/d)

Job Description

About our client

Our purpose is making life better. We are a global healthcare provider delivering measurable clinical quality through a diversified offering and a people-centered approach. 

Role

Head: Data, reporting to the Executive: Data and Analytics. 

The successful candidate will have prime responsibility for data asset delivery for analytics and business needs, and as such, will have an important and high-profile strategic position in the group. The role is responsible for overseeing data architecture, infrastructure, governance, operations and development, but more than that, for designing and building the environment that will future-proof the delivery of data insights.

It calls for a visionary, a leader and a creator, not merely a technician and manager.

Key Responsibilities

-    Ensure the creation and preservation of data assets to allow the company to drive business value through reporting and analytics.
-    In particular, transform the existing infrastructure (a data warehouse and multiple stored procedures leading to multiple data sources) to an integrated, aligned and reusable single source of truth.
-    Future-proof data sources in a way that is closely aligned to the business's evolving reporting and analytics needs.
-    Have a thorough understanding of business strategy and the objectives that flow from this.
-    Collaborate with stakeholders to understand operational needs and how these evolve.
-    Oversee the management and storage of data to support these objectives, ensuring data quality, availability and usability.
-    Through direct line reporting, manage the Architecture and Data Governance Manager, the Data Operations Manager and the Data Development Manager, and through them indirectly the teams supporting these functions; through these reporting lines:
-    Be accountable for organizational data architecture regarding operational needs, efficiency and cost.
-    Research best-in-breed solutions and ensure that the data environment remains relevant and optimal to support organizational goals.
-    Develop and nurture a high-performance, quality-obsessed, collaborative culture with other leaders in the broader data and analytics team.
-    Drive innovation in data management and drive business implementation of the data management strategy.
-    Be accountable for data governance, ensuring that data privacy obligations and data protection regulations are complied with.
-    Effectively communicate to senior management, business, and staff in the data and analytics team the value and importance of sound data management and the analytical possibilities that flow from it.
-    Oversee data operations and data development.

Required Experience/Qualifications

-    Honors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or an equivalent field, or other equivalent qualifications.
-    8+ years of experience in the administration and management of data environments and the information life-cycle.
-    3+ years of management experience.
-    Previous experience in overseeing the set up and management of enterprise data warehouses.
-    Solid experience in cloud technologies and on premise solutions.
-    Strong leadership and communication skills.
-    Understanding of data systems, architecture and pipelines.
-    Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret complex problems or processes that span multiple business areas, identify and understand requirements, and develop alternate solutions.
-    Project management skills.
-    Client relationship skills: demonstrated ability to build relationships with and deliver valuable solutions for stakeholders. 
-    Familiarity with relevant data environments and tools, including big data solutions. 
-   Healthcare experience will be a strong advantage.

Salary

R168000.00

The company has mandated that all employees be COVID-19 vaccinated.