Metadata Management Specialist - Johannesburg, South Africa - eSoft Development and Technologies

eSoft Development and Technologies
eSoft Development and Technologies
Verified Company
Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

Thabo Mthembu

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

beBee Recruiter
Description

areas:


  • Develop tactical strategies and related action plans specific to metadata.
  • Develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote data sharing and metadata awareness across the organisation and to support reliable decisionmaking.
  • Define useful metadata for business as well as approach for metadata management within the data virtualisation platform.
  • Create, maintain, and integrate a metadata environment that enables the sharing and standardisation of business information.
  • To identify unknown (and useful) datasets and potentially remove duplication in existing/future collection processes.
  • Maintain and support metadata for the data virtualisation tool as well as facilitate enhancements thereon.
  • Define business terms, taxonomy, rules and develop business dictionaries/glossaries to create a common understanding of business terms for the business Group and its relevant stakeholders.
  • Determine the usage and treatment of business terms as they relate to business operations and functions to create a common understanding thereof.
  • Develop controls for business terms to support reliable decisionmaking.
  • Make regular metadata quality checks and provide improvement suggestions where issues are identified as well as ensure that security is maintained.
  • Enable the improvement of metadata so that business users can consume such data for analysis and reporting.
  • Actively participate in processes that continually aim to improve systems, processes, and procedures as they relate to metadata.
  • Drive automation of metadata management processes and functions.
- a minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Informatics, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent NQF 7 qualification; and

  • Metadata Management Certification (e.g. CDMP Associate level) will be an added advantage
  • Minimum five to eight years of jobrelated experience within the metadata field.
  • Solid exposure to Agile methodology

Competencies:


  • Knowledge of the Metadata Management (MM) (essential)
  • Analysis and problemsolving
  • Effective communication, planning and organising
  • Service and stakeholder focus
  • Conceptual thinking
  • Attention to detail and results driven
  • Facilitation skills
  • Quality orientation
  • Negotiation skills
  • Team player
  • Selfmotivated

Key deliverables:


  • Develop Business Cases
  • Understand Metadata Requirements
  • Develop and maintain departmental Metadata Standards
  • Create, maintain, and integrate Metadata
  • Develop Metadata Quality Reports
  • Business Requirements Specification Document
  • Functional Requirements Specification Document
  • Develop Metadata Training documentation

Job Type:
Temporary

Contract length: 12 months


Education:


  • Bachelors (preferred)

Experience:

- metadata field: 5 years (preferred)
More jobs from eSoft Development and Technologies
See all jobs of eSoft Development and Technologies