Team Member, Metadata Management at a Commercial Bank - Growth in Value Alliance (GVA) Partners Limited

Growth in Value Alliance (GVA) Partners Limited - Our client, a Commercial Bank, is recruiting suitable candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Team Member, Metadata Management

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• We require the services of a highly skilled Metadata Manager with Fin-Tech experience. The successful will report to the Team Lead Metadata Management and is a key role in implementing & operationalizing the metadata strategy for Enterprise Data Management.
• This individual will support the Head of Data Governance in defining metadata & data lineage strategy consistent with the overall data management strategy and support implementation of the strategy at the Enterprise level.
• The team member will also work on other data related tasks as assigned by the Head of Data Governance and Chief Data Officer.

Key Responsibilities
Overall Accountabilities:

• Formulate techniques for metadata collection to ensure adequacy, accuracy, and legitimacy of data
• Constantly drive the optimization of the bank’s source of record with a focus on maintaining data consistency and promptly resolving conflicts that arise
• Actively drive the recognition and importance of efficient management of business metadata
• Define how quality is measured, documented (metadata) and how the data life cycle managed
• Support the Head of Data Governance in implementing data lineage strategy consistently across all covered Information Domains.
• Work closely with Data Stewards in the identification and documentation of business & technical metadata for all critical data elements for covered Information Domains.
• Maintain & update metadata requirements. Work closely with IT counterparts to update data models.
• Assist in documenting source to target data mapping, transformations & controls.
• Maintain & support business glossaries & technical metadata on metadata repository.
• Assist in creating procedures & workflows to support metadata management & usage on metadata repository.
• Support implementation & rollout of metadata platform (Collibra and others)
• Collaborate with business & technical stakeholders on maintaining metadata repository.
• Maintain high level of knowledge and expertise related to metadata. Ensure quality & integrity of metadata.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of metadata strategy and standards. Facilitate consistent adoption of metadata standards across the enterprise, demonstrating the value added by adoption.
• Support the Data Stewards & business for each covered Information Domain document business processes, data flows for critical data elements.
• Analyze business needs by facilitating business & DMO discussions and reviewing business requirements.
• Collaborate with business & technical stakeholders to design & implement metadata usage & reporting solutions.
• Support metadata distribution & usage across the enterprise.
• Assist on research, development & implementation of special projects, as needed.

Operational Effectiveness, Risk and Control:

• Assist in driving a culture of Data management across the Access Nation and contribute to enhanced operational efficiency by incorporating the use of best practices and methodology
• Drive synchronization and management of source of record
• Manage data as a strategic asset and operationalize data controls and frameworks to sustain the integrity of the data
• Drive and support the use of a common data dictionary and automated data refinement to effectively run compliance models – really need focus on controls in models
• Foster a culture of Innovation with enterprise-wide collaboration and partnerships
• Collaborate on cross functional innovative self-service analytics to eliminate unnecessary manual effort

Leadership and Teamwork:

• Coordinate data management requirements, the data governance framework (including standards & guidelines) and high-level data architecture to ensure the successful implementation of the data management strategy
• Assist with recognizing and upholding digital security systems to protect delicate information.
• Detail and communicates the data management strategy
• Develop and deliver trainings and coaching for increasing Data Management within all segments of the Bank.
• Ensure strong physical data protection controls are in place.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and transparency around data

Customers / Stakeholders:

• Engage appropriate stakeholders in ongoing data protection exercise
• Provide proper training and awareness for staff on data security requirements
• Establish rules and procedures for data sharing with upper management, external stakeholders etc.
• Support others in the daily use of data systems and ensure adherence to legal and company standards
• Work proactively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure best practices on data matters
• Manage and own relationships
• Assist in ensuring requirements coming from multiple areas are aligned and conflicts are resolved effectively
• Advisory and Consultancy to our stakeholder community on Data Management related matters.
• Take care of our customers privacy just as take care of their financial wellbeing and customer journey
• Where appropriate partner with Group Legal, Data Protection Officer and Compliance to challenge and redefine privacy controls to achieve increased effectiveness and automation
• Support a proactive privacy approach in support of our data privacy agenda, including “privacy by design”
• Ability to articulate to colleagues, executives, Audit and our regulators, how we are doing on data.
• Work with stakeholders to evolve Group Data Policy principles and align to Group values
• Provide advisory, execution and governance support as needed in respect of regulation impacting Access Banks data agenda
• Support regulatory engagement at group level and where necessary in support of subsidiaries

Qualifications and Experience
Mandatory Desirable:

• University Degree and / or professional qualification in an Information Technology related subject and/or project management
• Excellent analytical skills, written and verbal communication skills
• Working knowledge of business intelligence tools
• Ability to facilitate metadata sessions with business & technical stakeholders.
• IT certification and other professional qualification
• Proficiency in data modeling, relational databases & writing SQL queries.

Skills / Competencies:

• Knowledge of industry leading data quality and data protection management practices
• Knowledge of structured programming, testing, and debugging techniques.
• Ability to design and implement systems necessary to collect, maintain, and analyze data.
• Ability to implement and troubleshoot programming changes and modifications.
• Ability to supervise and train assigned staff.
• Ability to verify data input and correct errors.
• Knowledge of current technological developments/trends in area of expertise.
• Ability to provide a range of systems training and/or support activities for users.
• Knowledge of database construction, management, and retrieval methods.
• Ability to resolve data input, storage and/or retrieval problems and to design solutions and modifications.
• Knowledge of computer data processing principles.
• Ability to analyze operational data requirements and to create and develop databases specific to requirements.
• Ability to create data capture and input specifications.
• Internally and externally recognized subject matter expert that influence the way things are done
• Familiar with database and BI/Machine Learning/AI concepts
• Ability to impact operations and effect change without being confrontational
• Ability to work independently and excellent teamwork spirit
• Extremely organized with strong time-management skills
• Ability to take direction and execute
• Good communication skill (Oral & Written)
• Demonstrate advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office tools
• Problem Solving, Critical Thinking and Relationship Building
• Detail oriented, analytical, and inquisitive
• Big Picture Thinking- Ability to think outside the box and adopt new
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Application Closing Date
10th November, 2021.