FTC Senior Data Architect
Listing reference: petro_000172
Listing status: Under Review
Apply by: 10 October 2024
Position Summary
Industry: Chemical, Petrochemical, Oil & Gas
Job category: IT and Telecommunications
Location: Cape Town
Contract: Fixed Term Contract
Remuneration: Market Related
EE position: Yes
Job Description
Job Purpose : Manage the overall design of the enterprise information architecture within the Oil and Gas industry, across multiple data types (structured, semi-structured and unstructured), balancing the need for access against security and performance requirements to ensure that logical designs translate into physical persistent frameworks
Responsibilities:
- Translate strategic requirements into a usable enterprise information architecture, which may include an enterprise data model, associated meta-model, common business vocabulary, ontologies and taxonomies, to guide enterprise solution development and achieve consistency of information assets across the application portfolio.
- Develop a meta-model management and repository strategy to ensure that all enterprise information architecture project artefacts are managed.
- Oversee mapping of enterprise information architecture models to packaged application models and to determine impact or assess suitability of vendor solutions to enterprise information architecture requirements to ensure package suitability.
- Facilitate the definition of integrative and canonical views of data or information across multiple content types to ensure convergence of information assets, migration planning and impact analysis.
- Participate in the definition of technical standards and guidelines that pertain to data and information use, security, access and governance to ensure high quality data outputs.
- Identify and coordinate data/information assets to ensure data is, stewarded and leveraged across the enterprise.
- Map enterprise information architecture models to the PetroSA Business Architecture, Applications Architecture and the Technology Architecture to ensure alignment.
- Develop and publish enterprise data standards such as a common business vocabulary, naming conventions, data standards, transformation rules and related enterprise consistency specifications to ensure a focus on information/ data quality.
- Construct, refine and maintain information models, as needed, to meet business requirements to ensure timely and appropriate models exist to aid projects.
- Develop a model management strategy to ensure enterprise reuse and data-sharing objectives are met.
- Validate audit objectives and assist with creation of audit plans to ensure continued data integrity and transparency.
- Develop business cases within the Data and Information Architecture domain to ensure viability and value-add of initiatives.
- Provide advice, guidance and consultative expertise to stakeholders relating to Information Architecture to ensure quality end-customer products and services.
Minimum Requirements
Minimum Qualifications:
- B. Degree/ NQF Lev 7 qualification in Computer Science, Information Technology or Engineering
- The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) Certification (added advantage)
Minimum Experience:
- Minimum 7 years’ working experience within the Information Systems environment of a commercial business, with a proven career growth path from technical skills such as programming and Data Modelling
Knowledge & Competencies:
- COBIT IT governance framework
- South Africa Legislation relating to Information Communications Technology (ICT) (e.g. Promotion of Access to Information Act, Public access to Electronic Information Act etc.)
- Statistical Analysis
- Database Management and SQL
- Data Visualization
NB: As part of our recruitment process, candidates will be required to undergo Vetting/Security clearance.
PetroSA is committed to Equality, Employment Equity, and Diversity regarding employment opportunities and accordingly preference will be given to historically disadvantaged groups