Company: BK Group Plc
Purpose of the job
This role will play a pivotal role in integrating various digital services, applications, and systems across the Group from data perspective. The person will be responsible for ensuring seamless connectivity and interoperability between disparate systems.
As a Data Architect, this role will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the organization’s data architecture. The role will involve in creating conceptual and logical data models, defining data standards, and ensuring data integrity, integration aligned with the Group overall strategy.
This role reports to the Group Chief Technology Officer and will be based in Kigali, Rwanda.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement integration strategies to enable the seamless flow of data and services between different systems
- Ensure that optimal value is realized from Data project and Digital Services portfolios
- Participate in data/digital architecture reviews and contribute to overall IT strategy alignment
- Assess the performance of existing data and digital platforms in terms of contribution of data capabilities and value to identify opportunities, drive business growth and customer experience
- Create the Technology vision, architecture roadmap and Policy document for the Group including for Data and related Digital Services
- Continuous emphasis and support on data as a strategic asset and integral part of decision-making at all levels of the Group
- Continuous improvement in data strategies, processes, and technologies based on insights and changing business needs
- Analyzing, planning, and defining BK Group and subsidiaries data architecture framework, including security, reference data, metadata, and master data
- Daily collaboration with other Subsidiaries teams to devise and implement data strategies, build models, and assess shareholder needs and goals towards becoming a data driven-organization
- Participate/advise extensively contribute to the application programming interfaces (APIs) to retrieve data for Group wide data sharing
- Research and advise on industry data trends and their application benefits for BK Group
- Work with vendors and Group SMEs to translate business requirements into databases, data warehouses, and data streams
- Track and monitor the Group data strategy delivery and maturity evaluation
- Continuous identification of data integration, product cross-selling opportunities and their implementation across the Group
- Ensure regulatory compliance across Group from data management and governance perspective
- Enable the Holding team with reporting/dashboard tools, Group KPIs consolidation and performance reporting from strategy point of view
- Culture
- Inspire, develop, and engage a world-class team of data analysts and data scientists
- Build industry-leading digital experiences that create value for customers and value for the Group
- Support for a culture where new ideas and hypotheses are tested and refined based on data-driven experimentation
Operational
- Reviewing, modifying and refining the data/digital architecture prevalent in the Group for meeting its projected needs and remaining competitive in the market.
- Drive Group Data initiatives to create a flexible Data architecture that allows faster speed-to-market for new products and service offerings.
- Helping adopt latest, cost-effective and efficient new technology initiatives by the Group.
- Study, propose and align the Group to relevant technology trends
- Encouragement of experimentation and innovation driven by data insights.
- Support for a culture where new ideas and hypotheses are tested and refined based on data-driven experimentation
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