Information & Master Data Management Architect at Alfred & Victoria Associates

Alfred & Victoria Associates is one of Nigeria’s leading ICT solution based company. Our company offers a wide range of services which are in high demand of today’s emerging market. AVA has three major arms which have been streamlined to meet our customer's needs.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Information & Master Data Management Architect

Location: Lagos

Job Responsibilities

• Guide architectural focus groups as prime subject-matter expert in area of expertise.
• Determine and lead the development of Data & Information strategies.
• Direct the implementation of the technology & security blueprints.
• Evaluate developments in architecture in the local and international business environment and recommend value adding improvements to the company’s Data & Information architecture roadmaps.
• Evaluate and determine overall modelling standards, guidelines, best practices modelling techniques & approaches Data & Information architecture.
• Define standards and guidelines for systems/solutions procurement or deployment for Business Intelligence, Mediation & Master Data Mgt platforms.
• Support the maturity and adoption of the EIM program across the organization.
• Provide expert knowledge of enterprise master data strategies and best practices.
• Provide standards, guidelines, processes, and expertise to consistently address enterprise master data issues such as convergence, standards, and synchronization.
• Drive master data schema development, access business rules, and master data design.
• Define guidelines and policies for Data Governance/Master Data Standardization.
• Data Governance and Master Data Governance design including, establishing Data Governance organization, processes, roles and responsibilities in complex business Environments.
• Business process design for managing Master Data throughout the lifecycle, CDR management, Mediation, Revenue & fraud platforms.

Supervisory Expectations:

• IS Team members conforms to EA principles & standards.
• Facilitate rollout of professional Development standards.
• Required to guide and influence peers within the IS department in the adoption of appropriate frameworks.
• Manage the complexities of the interaction between the multitude of technologies and Services.
• Provide technology consulting around Information and Master Data Management Architecture.
• Highly motivated and driven to achieve both personal and team excellence.
• Ability to balance and govern the strategic demands of proper enterprise architecture design with the tactical demands of how it drives effective enterprise change.
• Strong presentation/white boarding skills. Must be able to lead technical discussions with technically strong client personnel.
• Take leadership during Information and Master Data Management project definition, and delivery in collaboration with Engagement managers and project managers.

Education

• A first Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology/Systems or related field from a reputable institution.
• A Master's Degree in a related field will be an added advantage.
• TOGAF certified for at least 12- 18 months.

Experience:

• Minimum of eight (8) years' work experience of which:
• 5years Enterprise Architecture (Business, Data, Applications, Technology) experience.
• 4 years’ experience integrating applications and technology in a complex environment.
• 5 years Master data governance experience.
• 4+ years MDM Architecture.
• Experience with MDM tools.
• Experience with Data Qualities toolsets.
• Experience with ETL, SOA and messaging technologies and Metadata models.
• Good working knowledge of EA frameworks, NGOSS & Telco 2.0.
• Salary: Very attractive.
• Interested candidates should send tailored CVs no later than 3pm on Friday 5th April 2019 to [email protected]. Any application received after this time will be automatically rejected.

Key Functional Competencies:

• Mastered the principles of how business strategy drives IT strategy.
• Proven experience in Enterprise Architecture Governance and standards.
• Excellent negotiation and facilitation skills are critical to this role (Able to convey and sell ideas and strategies to stakeholders).

Application Closing Date
Friday 5th April, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send tailored CV to: [email protected]