Senior Manager, Data Engineering

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

This role is to lead product insights and portfolio optimization for the Card business, which include businesses in both Issuing and Acquiring, as well as Consumer and competitor market trends.

This role will lead initiatives to identify drivers of business performance and build profitability and action effect models, and further undertake revenue leakage exercise, including credit risk and operational risk for ongoing portfolio optimization.

This role will also be responsible to support the business through data analytics, aiding in building toward organization data systems and pipelines, support the delivery of end to end solutions to business problems through robust data structure.

This will require building and automating of vast data sets within Card that integrate multiple data sources in the development of insights and inform Card Client Solutions strategies of becoming a Modular Producer and generating alternative revenue streams for beyond traditional banking revenue.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
Type of Qualification: Post Graduate Degree is advantageous 
Field of Study: Mathematical Sciences/Actuarial Science, Computer ScienceOther Minimum Qualifications, Certifications or Professional Memberships: Honours’s degree in Actuarial Science / Computer Science/Mathematical Sciences or related field ,Azure or AWS certification 

Experience Required
Technology
Engineering (includes Cloud and Resilience)
Minimum of 7 years experience in SAS or SQL;R, Python, PowerBI, Google Analytics, AWS Data Analytics, Azure Data Analytics. Data Management,  Analysis and Design- Experience of programming in SQL, structured query language, and other common programming languages.

Additional Information

Behavioral Competencies: 

• Providing Insights
• Examining Information
• Challenging Ideas
• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information

Technical Competencies : 

• Data Analysis
• Data Integrity
• Statistical and mathematical analysis
• Knowledge Classification
• Functional Analysis and UAT

Please note: All our recruitment processes comply with the applicable local laws and regulations.

We will never ask for money or any form of payment as part of our recruitment process. If you experience this, please contact our Fraud line on +27 800222050 or TransactionFraudOpsSA@standardbank.co.za