Chief Data Officer at TalentintheCloud

A Bit About The Role

Reporting directly into the Chief Executive Officer, this role will involve creating value through data exploitation as well as envisioning data-enabled strategies. Their ideal Chief Data Officer will get excited at the idea of enabling all forms of business outcomes through analytics, establishing data and analytics governance, and specifying an enterprise information policy.

Requirements

Your daily adventures include:

• Take authority, responsibility, and accountability for exploiting the value of enterprise information assets, and of the analytics used to render insights for decision making, automated decisions and augmentation of human performance. Be the corporate leader of data-driven insights that help support the exploitation of strategic and tactical business opportunities
• Work with board members and other executives to establish the vision for managing data as a business asset - to exploit data using research and analytics to maximize the return on data assets. Develop methods to ensure consistent application and use of analytics. Establish the governance of data and algorithms used for analysis, analytical applications and automated decision making
• Define data and analytics strategy practices, lead the creation (and assure the ongoing relevance) of the firm’s data and analytics strategy in collaboration with the CIO, COO and CEO. Institute an enterprise operating model that is consistent with the capabilities and competencies required to execute the strategy
• Oversee the development and deployment of the enterprise’s data and analytics platform for digital business
• Lead research, strategy creation and development of new data products or services to expand markets, monetize data (directly and indirectly) and grow company revenue
• Expand the organization’s research and analytics offerings, especially in emerging analytical approaches, skills, and technologies, focusing them on digital business innovation
• Foster the creation of a data-driven culture, related competencies, and data literacy across the enterprise
• Identify new kinds, types, and sources of data to enable business innovation throughout the organization. Create and oversee a centralized service for sourcing external data to ensure quality, traceability, timeliness, usability, and cost-effectiveness. Define processes for the effective, integrated introduction of new data

What It Takes To Succeed

• Understanding of cloud platforms and out of the box analytics tools (AWS and Azure, less GCP)
• Understanding of different approaches/tools to use of unstructured and structured data for analytics (data virtualisation, NoSQL, data integration)
• Clear evidence of disciplines of data governance (CDEs and data quality), data privacy, data analytics

Knowledge

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field
• Master’s degree in an appropriate field
• Relevant Professional qualifications

Experience

• 10 years overall experience with over three (3) years in management preferably in a banking environment
• Demonstrated leadership skills with good command of oral and written knowledge of English.