The Senior Manager, Data Management and Data Governance role, reporting to the Deputy Director, Statistics & Knowledge Management, is crucial for overseeing and enforcing robust data practices within the Research Department.
Job Purpose
Reporting to the Deputy Director, Statistics & Knowledge Management, the job holder is responsible for:
- Creating processes and procedures that monitor and enforce data governance policies and practices in the Research department and in line with the Bank's Data Governance Framework.
- Establishing guidelines for data handling, quality assessments, and data access and security.
- Ensuring data quality is tracked, resolution of data-related issues, and enforcing compliance with any regulatory requirements.
- Being in charge of data warehousing and creation of dashboards and analytics.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
Strategic Responsibilities
- As data governance champion for the Research Department, the role is fundamental in driving the Bank towards its vision and data-driven future.
- As the guardian for the Department’s data in the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), the role bears the responsibility for the management and fitness of the data – ensuring its quality, timeliness, consistency, and compliance with bank policy and any regulatory standards.
- Understand trends, identify issues and opportunities, and recommend action.
Technical and Operational Responsibilities
- Responsible for Research Data completeness and quality in the EDW.
- Responsible for creating processes and procedures that monitor and enforce data governance policies in the Research department.
- Responsible for establishing guidelines for data handling, quality assessments, and data access and security.
- Partner with technology and architecture colleagues and contacts to drive effective data related activities for research and analysis.
- Ensure various data policies, including data archival, data privacy, data use and data revision policies are in place and implemented.
- Ensure data quality issues are tracked, resolved, and enforce compliance with any regulatory requirements.
- Reference and Master Data: Define and review code values / code lists and identify sources of master data.
- Metadata: Define and review business terms and associated attributes including calculations and various rules.
- Data Classification: Ensure that data is classified as restricted, regulated, or public as it relates to the distribution of the data.
- Data Sharing: Review data sharing requests and approve or reject.
- Data Stewardship Group Participation: Attend stewardship group meetings and participate in working groups as needed.
- Review EDW reports and visualization to ensure they are performing as expected and meeting the needs of analysts, ensuring the data is viewed as trusted.
- Participate in cross-functional/enterprise initiatives related to data changes and processes.
- Manage data work activities requiring coordination across multiple areas.
- Understand, remediate and implement changes in various forums on behalf of Research Department.
- Protect the interests of the Bank’s; identify and manage risks, raising issues as necessary.
Other Responsibilities
- Provide support to ensure compliance with Bank policies and processes including staff performance appraisals.
- Contribute, as appropriate, to the performance of other functions in the Bank and to the overall achievement of the Bank’s mandates and strategic objectives.
- Mentor, coach and mobilize teams to achieve the Department and the Division’s objectives.
- Lead, motivate and build positive working relationships with internal and external partners.
- Continually improve professional expertise, knowledge transfer and be a brand ambassador for data stewardship and Research Department.
Qualifications and Experience
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics or Data Science or a related field from a recognised university.
- Master’s Degree in Economics, Statistics or a related field.
- Knowledge in data warehousing and creation of dashboards.
Work Experience
- At least ten (10) years’ experience in implementing data management and governance practices in a large organization.
- At least five years’ experience working with relational databases and SQL.
- Experience working with business intelligence and reporting solutions such as Oracle BI, Power BI, and analytical tools such as Matlab, R, Python and Tableau to analyze data across a variety of data sources and formats (e.g., TXT, CSV).
- Experience working with providers of economic data.
- Understanding of statistical reporting.
- Experience working in an agile and cross-functional team.
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