Data Steward

Recruiter:

Baraka IT Solutions (Pty) Ltd

Job Ref:

Data Steward

Date posted:

Monday, February 9, 2026

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

Neg

SUMMARY:
Data Steward Governance

POSITION INFO:

Job Profile Summary To implement the strategy and business processes required to create, maintain, and enhance data, be responsible for the daily management of a critical data asset and provide overall guidance and governance oversight to an allocated data set and actively manage data in order to maximize value, align data to business priorities, continuously improve data quality, reduce cost of data management, and to increase confidence in data and information integrity.

Job Description

Provide input into the definition of data processes and standards.

Embed data policies, standards, tools and best practices within the data domain of responsibility.
Provide input into domain-level data architecture and data management best practices.
Evaluate existing information management landscape and produce report for areas of improvement.
Attend relevant information management working groups and implement requirements accordingly.
Ensure compliance with internal policy, regulatory requirements and data practice standards.
Interacts and builds relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance with statutory requirements.
Develop data service level agreements (SLAs).
Document business term definitions.
Create and maintain reference data and master data definitions.
Ensure reference and master data management processes address uniformity, accuracy, accountability across entities.
Maintain metadata, data quality rules, Enterprise Data Model (EDM), reference data, records register, where applicable.
- Publish relevant meta data to appropriate users in an organization, and monitor the published data sources for usage, relevance and quality feedback.
- Create and manage business metadata for published data sources to ensure that it is easily discoverable, and meaningful to information workers.
- Respond to data queries e.g. data quality issues as defined by the data quality issue resolution process.
- Co-ordinate data quality issue resolution.
- Perform root cause analysis to resolve data quality issues and implement solutions accordingly.
- Assess the access request and action according to access standards and information owner approvals.
- Monitor user access and usage of the data sets owned or accountable for.
- Define and obtain sign off on measurement for information management disciplines.
- Provide input into information management metrics.

Provide accurate and reliable reporting together with analyzing trends and data used to improve business decisions.
Provide accurate and reliable reporting in line with business, compliance and governance requirements.
- Accumulate information to review work progress that provides input to reporting, decision making and the identification of improvement opportunities.
- Present report on improvement opportunities to be prioritized or decision to be made by relevant decision-making committee as and when required.
- Define information management requirements (e.g. data cleansing and data quality, etc.) and drive the implementation of the requirements.
- Participate in data related projects and provide required domain level expertise.
- Align data activities to targeted projects for remediation.
- Drive activities of the Segment implementation roadmap for the information management function.
  - Take ownership of the maturity roadmap for relevant Business Unit aligned to implementation roadmap and provide inputs for roadmap assessment.
  - Deliver initiatives that improve the level of information management maturity.
    - Apply understanding of data management and business processes and coordinate with relevant stakeholders to solve business problems.
    - Specify information management objectives and benefits and in consultation with business stakeholders obtain sign off.
    - Serve as a change agent for information management.
      - Present information management trends to management and relevant committees using internal and external research as a proactive approach, including best practice and industry standards.
      - Consult in matters of data workflows, master data security, and access rights.
      - Promote best practices and make recommendations to business users that will create efficiencies and ensure data integrity.
      - Develop an understanding of information flow and system architecture and how it relates to underlying data structures.
      - Provide training or awareness to the business and data community on data management disciplines.
      - Provide advice on new tools that offer increased business efficiency and profitability.
        
        Identify and recommend possible solutions to support business requirements and partners with stakeholders to develop an optimum solution.
        
        Bachelor of Science
        
        Computer and Information Science

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