Data Steward - Sandton, South Africa - Discovery Ltd.

Discovery Ltd.

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Sandton, South Africa

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Description

Business Unit:
Vitality RSA
Function:Business Intelligence
Date:5 Jul 2023Discovery - Vitality Data Solutions

Data Steward

About Discovery
Discovery's core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives.

We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery.

Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best.

As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

Key Purpose

To oversee the safe transport, timely delivery, storage of data and the management of data operations for the relevant business unit.

Assist in building data operations framework to enable the responsibilities listed below and the creation of a Vitality data policy.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

Interact with our business leads and other stakeholders to establish information needs
Conduct data analysis and data profiling on various source systems
Defining various data rules for the business and ensures high level of data quality, integrity, availability, completeness, consistency, privacy and compliance to those rules by the data owners
Ensure data flow through all processes and platforms is running correctly, both in terms of data collection, integration, processing and quality
Maintain timetable of all critical processes and all data movements
Monitor these data movements through recons and/or exception reports
Escalate all abnormal movements to business for resolution
Monitor and trend failed data transfer processes with production support
Resolve data quality issues in partnership with business operations teams and other Data Stewards or Data Operations Teams.
Run exception reports and recons as per business timetable and distribute to business
Engage with business daily to drive the resolution of any issues from these reports
Assist with proactive data analysis regarding these exceptions
Monitor and manage data quality across business systems
Collate, analyse and theme data quality issues
Create or log new exception reports and recons to prevent these issues from reoccurring and add them to the operations schedule
Create and update regular data quality report/dashboard for management showing new issues raised, issues resolved, aging of issues and themes causing recurring data quality issues.
Perform corrective and evolutive maintenance of all data processes causing data quality issues
Using themed data, conduct root cause analysis of data quality issues
Participate in engagement with business to understand current processes and its limitations
Advise on corrective actions to people, processes, systems and data operations to correct these limitations
Participate in remediation projects
Monitor data quality after correction to ensure that the process is now optimal
Ensure the quality of service; responsible for data consumer support
Assist in data analysis of Vitality data when and where needed
Ensure that reports and processes are of high quality and are run by production support.
Document data operations and monitoring solutions in clear, concise guides
Develop KPI framework
Coaching on an ongoing basis to improve adoption of data standards
Define data standards
Support implementation of the data standards
Track key metrics related to compliance to central data standards and policies
Support development of KPI framework
Demonstrate active ownership of master data domains, processes, and procedures
Maintain expertise on overall use of data, including the global data dictionary
Facilitate governance over subsets of data to ensure quality across business processes through collaboration with other Data Stewards and Data Ops Specialists
Creating/editing requirements, data dictionaries, process maps and data lineage/mapping
Developing an understanding of the metadata captured to manage data and participate in the creation of metatdata
Establish a standardized approach to capture and document metadata issues across all assigned data domains
Define and roll out group data standards
Monitor compliance to data standards

Personal Attributes and Skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Must be able to present solutions and data storylines.
Experience in gathering requirements
Experience working with BI frontend tools ( i.e. Power BI, Excel)
Strong SQL query writing ability (across database environments)
Database fundamentals knowledge
Good analytical and problemsolving skills.
Must be able to navigate ambiguity and complexity around business products and benefits and how they tie into data.
Understanding of Master Data management (MDM), Metadata Management and Data Governance (DG)
Implement the d