Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Equity Bank Limited (The "Bank”) is incorporated, registered under the Kenyan Companies Act Cap 486 and domiciled in Kenya. The address of the Bank’s registered office is 9th Floor, Equity Centre, P.O. Box 75104 - 00200 Nairobi. The Bank is licensed under the Kenya Banking Act (Chapter 488), and continues to offer retail banking, microfinance and related services. The Bank has subsidiaries in Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda and Tanzania. Its shares are listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange and Uganda Securities Exchange. Equity Bank was founded as Equity Building Society (EBS) in October 1984 and was originally a provider of mortgage financing for the majority of customers who fell into the low income population. .

Essential Functions of the Job:
• Participate (with Commercial & Risk Management team) in the application and deployment of data policies and processes and their continued enforcement to include areas such as workflow for data ingestion, data quality, master data and data life cycle management. Ensure that data quality guidance and direction is applied throughout the entire data lifecycle, most importantly upfront, through the vision and roadmaps for solutions that seek to leverage data and data services.
• Ensure that all data assets which are subject to the governance processes within the Data office are addressed
• Support the development and maintenance of an end to end data lifecycle management approach
• Responsible for applying data governance framework including the management of data, operating model, data policies and standards as well as the application of clearly defined data management definitions for use across the Data Office
• Apply a data governance framework, with a focus on continued improvement of data quality and strict adherence to the agreed Trust and Classification processes.
• Follow the guidelines related to data governance and data quality and ensure clear accountability. In addition, he/she will have a key role working with various stakeholders across the organization to achieve the goals defined in the data governance and data management strategies.
• Deliver status updates on data quality by updating a Data Quality dashboard
• Follow standards, policies and processes regarding data quality management
• Operate data remediation plans where data fails to meet required standard: Operational Management and Decision Making Responsibilities:
• Monitoring data quality process, identifying data quality issue patterns, applying remediation plans, implementation of data controls, and manage data quality remediation strategies.
• Updating a Data Quality dashboard highlighting key issues

Knowledge and Skills Requirements:
• Understanding of Master Data Management technology landscape, processes and design principles
• Operational familiarity in the use of meta-data management, data quality, and data stewardship tools and platforms
• Experience in the use of data catalogues and data quality technologies
• Hands-on operational management and change management.
• Proven track record in operating large data governance programs. Knowledge of Cloud based big data frameworks such as data lake, relational, Graph and other no-SQL databases
• Experience in managing enterprise data assets in a large, complex organization
• Should be familiar with cloud and data management trends, including open source projects, methodologies (connect and collect, hub and spoke, data fabrics, etc.) and leading commercial vendors that relate to data acquisition, management and the semantic web
• Ability to analyze complex situations and to derive workable actions
• Ability to constructively challenge requirements and current state to increase overall value to the firm
• Strong relationship building skills
• Ability to understand and integrate cultural differences and motives and to lead virtual cross-cultural, cross-border teams
• Flexibility to adjust to multiple demands, shifting priorities, ambiguity and rapid change
• Good written and verbal communication

Qualifications
• A minimum of 3 years’ relevant work experience in data quality management, information architecture and governance design and implementation, with significant influence on overall direction of data governance management
• Demonstrated experience in developing and operationalizing data based guidelines, policies, procedures, and standards,
• Demonstrated ability to build cross-functional relationships that result in adoption of organizational change,
• Appropriate level will be determined based upon experience and knowledge
• Experience of having been engaged within a multi-cultural, multi-disciplined, globally dispersed team
• See above for knowledge and skill requirements
Certification Requirements:
• Any Data Governance, Applicable Vendor or Industry certification is preferred not mandatory

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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