Manager - Data Governance at Safaricom Kenya

Detailed Description

Reporting to the Head of Department – BI & Data Governance the position holder will define, implement and ensure adherence to the companywide Data Governance framework and policies across all domains to drive and improve data quality and integrity to support decision making and drive growth

Roles and Responsibilities

• Establish and govern an enterprise data governance implementation roadmap including strategic priorities for development of information-based capabilities aligned to best practice and international standards across all business domains e.g. DAMA, ARMA, DCAM
• Responsible for defining and driving governance to ensure implementation and adherence to data governance policies defined including big data platforms and cloud implementations.
• Define roles and responsibilities related to data governance and ensure clear accountability for stewardship of the company’s principal information assets
• Identity and drive business use of data assets to stimulate growth through insights and analytics
• Define tools and methods to implement and drive adherence to data governance policies
• Proactively engage in new products design, system deployments, lines of business to ensure data governance is implemented at the core of all new initiatives
• Input into Group to drive global best practices on Data Governance across all group opcos and partner markets
• Ensure adherence to data privacy across all key data domains as defined by the company’s data privacy policy and in line the regulation
• Implement systems and process for Monitoring data quality process, identifying data quality issue patterns, applying remediation plans, implementation of data controls, and manage data quality remediation strategies.
• Define indicators of performance and quality metrics (KQIs) and ensure compliance with data related policies, standards, roles and responsibilities, and adoption requirements

 
QUALIFICATIONS
 
Job Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters in Statistics, Econometrics, Engineering, Maths, Science, etc.
• 5 - 8 years of experience in generating business insights, delivering data governance frameworks & policies and have good understanding of telecommunications business
• Technical Expertise in analytics and data governance platforms such as Oracle BI, Collibra, Ab Initio, Hadoop etc
• Analytics experience in one or more of these areas: campaign management, sales, product design, pricing, supply chain, network, customer care, etc.
• Good communication and presentation (oral and written) skills
• Experience in telecom, financial services or similar industries
• Hands-on experience in statistical modeling would be a plus. Statistical experience can include developing regression models, factor analysis, clustering, decision trees would be an added advantage