Job Advert Summary

Purpose:

• To ensure data is managed according to data governance requirements
• To ensure the availability of accurate Key Performance Indicators on a value chain level as required by business to support efficient and effective production planning, optimization and reporting
• To enable effective in time decision making facilitating year on year improvements through data management
• Ensure data is integrated and managed in a manner that ensures and maintains a single version version of the truth, available in the required time frame and aligned to business processes to enable citizen report building
• To ensure stable, accurate data flows and alignment between the data marts

Minimum Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

• BSc Engineering (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
• BSc Computer Science (Essential/Minimum or)
• BEng Engineering (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
• BEng Computer Engineering (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate First Line Management (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE:

3-5 years Relevant experience within a heavy industry, mining, production environment. Knowledge of development processes. With proven technical aptitude in one or more application programming domain. Ability to work in Agile and non-Agile environments. With a minimum of 3-5 years experience in using data to empower better decision making, through reporting, analyses and models. Need to have a good understanding of data and the business (Essential/Minimum) Operational
REQUIREMENTS:

• Certificate in SQL Database Coding (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
• Competence: Simulation Modelling (Essential/Minimum)
• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
• Competence: MS Office Relevant Package (Essential/Minimum)
• Competence: Discipline Specific Program (Recommended/Desirable)

Duties & Responsibilities

Data Delivery

• Drive the data strategy implementation
• Ensure master and reference data that supports the data owners area of control is appropriately managed to support effective consolidation, aggregation and integration of data
• Identify and document critical data assets within the business of accountability
• Responsible for the maintenance data measures and Key Performance Areas (KPIs) required by any reporting using this areas KPIs
• Ensure relevant reports are built correctly and relevant maintenance thereof
• Responsible for the creation and implementation of governance around data structure, data flow and reporting to ensure a robust data set usable by all
• Responsible for the implementation of all relevant data forums
• Inputs and logic support on the architecture, design, and implementation for automated analytics and reporting to support the business unit. Ensuring data is useable in business context
• Uses the organizational data blueprint provided by the data architect to gather, store, and prepare the data in a framework from which the data scientist and data analyst work
• Supporting IM in building and testing maintainable Enterprise Data Architectures that is supporting the data strategy

Data Governance

• Ensure data governance that allows agility through DevOps way of work
• Manage "one version of the truth", big picture database & data logic (Ensure no duplication of KPIs between DMs)
• Run and facilitate all data forums
• Ensure governance and process is in place and remains relevant as technology changes
• Ensure data flow logic consistent in all areas (in support of/with IM architecture and reporting governance)
• Ensure data flow logic is visible and simple to use to anyone needing to build a report
• Ownership of one version of truth between different data bases

Data Management

• Authorise data definitions, changes to data and the use of data i.e. access approval
• Ensure that vital business records are classified according to security requirements and categorised within the appropriate data themes
• Identify data stakeholder roles, organisations, processes and applications
• Ensure any new systems designed adequately address data integrity, data quality, data privacy and security risks
• Ensure information risks, incidents or events, issues and control weaknesses are identified and communicated in a manner that allows timely corrective action to be taken
• Focused on the day-to-day tasks of cleaning, wrangling, and preparing data for other data consumers, such as data scientists and citizen report builders
• Key enabler to the integrated operations centre for data scientists and analysts in assessing and aligning data requirements for the BU, and in updating / modernising data visualisation feeds

Effective People Management

• Gives guidance to those performing the role of Data Custodians and Developers
• Works with Data Custodian to ensure business requirements are implemented as intended
• Ensure an optimised team structure is manned by staff that is motivated, empowered and lead by sound performance management and transformational leadership practices
• Promote teamwork, provide support and manage performance by creating and maintaining individual development plans of subordinates
• Assume responsibility for managing manpower, efficient resource allocation, and declaration of competence and reduction of operating cost

Performance Management and Continuous Improvement

• Translates business need into Code to ensure value adding user stories
• Drive research and development initiatives to ensure continuous improvement and enhanced performance
• Keep abreast of new developments and ensure potential threats within designated area is identified and addressed timeously
• Benchmark plant/mining activities and track performance to indicate improvement opportunities
• Ensuring relevant dashboards available for shift change caucuses & any other relevant forum where data is required for performance management and decision making

Safe and Healthy Work Environment

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment and safe operations practices
• Ensure compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

Behavioural Alignment
Demonstrates the following:

• Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
• Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
• Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
• Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
• Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective

The appointment will be made in accordance with Exxaros Employment Equity policy.
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