To translate the Standard Bank Group (SBG) data vision and strategy into applicable data strategies in Standard Bank Offshore to support SBG objectives. To oversee the implementation of the data strategy by co-ordinating and facilitating data programmes to enable data driven business decisions that are consistent and effective. To enforce governance and compliance ensuring alignment to SBG framework, policies, and standards. To Provide the business leadership role that has the primary enterprise accountability for value creation by means of the organization's data and analytics assets, as well as the data and analytics ecosystem. To define, develop, and execute the data monetisation strategy by providing guidance, input and leadership across the data, analytics using AI, ML, and advanced data science methodologies.

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector's most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you. To work with business stakeholders to identify and deliver on new AI initiatives. To apply deep domain expertise to shape/influence the AI-thinking in the organisation through thought leadership; enabling the successful adoption and acceleration of AI and ML across Standard Bank Group (SBG), ensuring the needs of stakeholders are correctly understood and addressed.

Degree in Information Technology Experience Required 5-7 years - Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.

To assist with advanced analytics and deep insight by being a proactive partner in providing customer centric data analytics, including alternative methods of aggregating raw data (internal and external), which will ultimately influence the way in which we view and act on customer behaviour and customer health, i.e. identifying risks and opportunities. Implementing the use of machine learning to challenge and improve predictive modelling techniques, the available characteristic universe across the customer life cycle and optimising segmentation to enhance model performance. Solutions should satisfy customer centricity and digitisation objectives. Including but not limited to Extracting meaningful insights from data, Predictive modelling and machine learning, Stakeholder Engagement, Leadership and People Management.

To conduct regulatory monitoring within Consumer and High Net Worth on a specific set of regulatory requirements (e.g., PEPS, Sanctions, EDD, FIC Amendment Bill, CTR, Waterfall (KYC), AML Training, Quality Assurance, etc.) as prescribed by the Regulatory Monitoring framework and drives first level of defence remediation of breaches. To provide insights on the state of regulatory adherence within allocated portfolio and prepare appropriate reports as input into overall regulatory reporting.

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector's most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you. To own and account for a large application platform or a collection of application platforms that deliver a capability/service. To deliver deep specialist technical expertise, leadership in the design, build, securing, monitoring of data pipelines and data stores to applicable architecture, solution designs, standards, and governance requirements.

Data repositories can help businesses organise their data and improve its quality. Standard Bank of South Africa raised the quality of its data from six per cent to 98 per cent using IBM DataOps software. It now has a data catalogue to help it meet regulatory and compliance requirements. Before working with IBM, the bank which operates in 20 countries in Africa and has reported assets of approximately US$157 billion in 2019 was investing tens of millions of dollars on data fixes in disparate places, says Simphiwe Phakathi, Executive Head: Relationship Banking PBB Africa Regions at Standard Bank Group & Dumisani Mthimkhulu, Head of Data Asset Management Platforms at Standard Bank Group. "We needed a disciplined data lifecycle approach that was sustainable."