Data Integration Specialist

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.

Responsible for processes related to the movement and consolidation of data from multiple sources across the organization to provide a complete, accurate and up to date dataset for business intelligence, data analysis and other applications and business process.

• Assist in the identification of data misalignment between the bank's customer master file (core banking systems) and partner systems (e.g., Home Loans, VAF, etc.) and help initiate remediation efforts for misaligned data.
• Build scalable data integration solutions in line with business requirements by creating database objects, developing applications, developing database procedures, functions, and triggers to perform complex ETL processes.
• Adhere to the compliance requirements, policies, procedures as well as standard when aligning data between partner systems and the customer master file to ensure that data is handled appropriately, and that data management is compliant to mitigate any risk to the bank and its customers.
• Extract and conduct preliminary analysis of data across the various partner systems to match this against the core banking systems customer master file that drives customer data integrity.
• Liaise and collaborate with the EDO team, providing support to the department for its integration needs. Collaborate with subject matter experts to select the relevant sources of information and translate the business requirements into integration outcomes. Presents findings and observations to team for development of recommendations.

• First Degree Technology, Information Studies or related from  recognised Institution
• Preferred field of study includes Computer Science and/or Information Systems; e.g. Application development, Proficiency with multiple programming languages, Information Technology, Data Analysis, Data Engineering.
• 8-10 years experience with good understanding of data principles, how data fit’s in an organisation and more specifically bank’s data including customers, products as well as transactional information.
• Knowledge of integration patterns, styles, protocols and systems theory.
• Hands on experience with business and technical requirements analysis and structured and unstructured data mapping and designs.

Technical Competencies:

• Awareness of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Business Process Improvement
• IT Business Analysis
• Data Integrity
• IT Applications
• IT Systems

Behavioural Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Interpreting Data
• Making Decisions
• Meeting Timescales
• Producing Output
• Team Working
• Thinking Positively