Data Engineer, CIB Operations

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

To transform the user experience of CIB Operations’ services through the prioritisation and execution of impactful and data driven solutions (Intelligent Process Model) to drive future relevance of business and optimisation of services in alignment with strategy.

To research, analyse and interpret client/market/business data and deliverables to support implementation of strategic transformation initiatives and continuously improve operational efficiency.

To deliver against strategic objectives and thresholds to meet stakeholder expectations and contribute to delivery of CIB Operations future relevance aligned to strategy.

Part of the Data Products & Insights portfolio for the global CIB Operations business, the role requires:

• Designing, maintaining, and optimising data infrastructure for data collection, management, transformation, and access.
• Creating pipelines that convert raw data into usable formats for data analysts/scientists and other data consumers to transform data into actionable and valuable commodities.
• To design, build, test, and operationalise, secure and monitor data pipelines and data stores to applicable architecture, solution designs, standards, policies, and governance requirements.
• Contribute toward the creation of commercially viable and widely available data products.
• Work alongside a team of data professionals to leverage data products and insights to drive transformation at all levels towards the CIB Operations future state.

Critical focus areas in the Intelligent Transformation value chain:

1. Decide – Position objective data insights to ratify business cases of new solutions and drive decision making.
2. Execute – Utilise data to track execution of new solutions and continuous improvement of Operations environments.
3. Realise Value – Proactively track benefits realisation with observable and timely data points.

Critical Behavioural Competencies:

• Exploring possibilities
• Challenging ideas
• Adopting Practical Approaches

Critical Technical Competencies:

• Data storytelling and visualization
• Commercial mindset
• Results focus 

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology or related fields

Experience 

• Experience applying understanding of insights, metrics, strategy and benefits realisation measure across the organisational value chain to demonstrate value of successful implementation of initiatives to meet stakeholder expectations.
• Ability to collaborate with data analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver fit for purpose solutions.
• Experience in designing, maintaining, and optimising data infrastructure for data collection, management, transformation, and access.
• Experience aligning insights and trends to the overall strategic objectives to respond proactively to upcoming change while managing external and external challenges to promote the success of change.

Additional Information

Behavioral Competencies:

• Exploring Possibilities
• Developing Strategies
• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Developing Expertise
• Convincing People
• Challenging Ideas
• Articulating Information
• Making Decisions
• Empowering Individuals
• Resolving Conflict
• Conveying Self-Confidence
• Showing Composure

Technical Competencies:

• Change Enablement
• Change Management (HR)
• Client Business Case
• Client Relationship Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Creative Problem Solving
• Data Analytics & Visualization
• Innovation Leader
• Insight Storytelling
• Operations Commercial Acumen
• Process Analysis and Redesign
• Process Automation Value Management
• Project Management (Project Mgmt)
• Solution Design & Enablement
• Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Alignment & Execution
• Strategy Definition