Information Management Specialist - Pretoria, South Africa - Professional Sourcing

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Pretoria, South Africa

1 week ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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Job Overview:

Information Management Specialist (Financial Services)

Location:
Hybrid / Pretoria, Gauteng

Position Overview:

A leading
top tier financial services group has an exciting new opportunity available for an experienced
Information Management Specialist.

The main purpose of this position is to
manage information management capabilities in order to
provide an integrated view of the information management landscape.

One will be tasked to
improve the information management maturity levels within the firm (i.e., the
firm and its subsidiaries), and to
support reliable and effective decision-making.

Key responsibilities include:

- _Support the business in the implementation of the various _
_data management disciplines__._
- _Provide a _
_consolidated and integrated view__ of the information landscape._
- _Provide input into how _
_data is stored, maintained__, and used in the _
_database management implementation process

_:
- _Provide _
_periodic reports__, including _
_technical reports__, as well as _
_information management reports__._
- _Develop and manage _
_stakeholder relations_

To be considered for this position, one must have:

A
completed Bachelor's degree (NQF 7) in
Informatics,
Management Information Systems,
Computer
Science,
Computer Engineering, or an equivalent qualification.
A
minimum of 5 to 8 years' experience in the
field of Data Management.
An
Honour's or Master's degree in Economics, Finance an equivalent
combination
of education and jobrelated experience will be preferred.

-
Extensive knowledge of best practices/methodologies in Data Warehousing and Multi-Dimensional
Data Analytics (e.g.,
OLAP, such as
ESSBASE or
Microsoft analysis services),
Systems Design and
Management.

Extensive knowledge and skill of the most common
RDBMS technologies
Oracle,
IBM,
SQL
Server, and
MySQL.
Experience and skill in deploying and
managing Big Data Environments
Hadoop, Spark, and
NoSQL.
Knowledge of
Database Querying Languages (e.g.

,
SQL) and skill / Programming Languages
(R and Python):

Experience and skill with development using a
broad variety of Integration Techniques, patterns, tools, and methodologies /
Data Management Disciplines.