Contract Project Manager (Data): Party Master & Metadata Platform

Contract Project Manager (Data): Party Master & Metadata Platform

12-month contract | Full-time onsite, Johannesburg | Financial services

We're looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead two data initiatives at a major financial services client: a Party Master implementation and a metadata and reference data platform on AWS.

What you'll do

• Own integrated project plans, RAID logs, steering committee packs and status reporting


• Coordinate business, data architecture, data engineering, cloud, InfoSec and vendor teams


• Deliver Party Master work: data model implementation, customer/party data migration, data quality improvement, deduplication, and matching and survivorship rules


• Lead SIT, UAT, business sign-off, cutover and go-live


• Drive metadata catalogue and governance framework implementation, including Unified Studio integration with existing governance tools


• Manage AWS vendor dependencies, environment provisioning and security/compliance approvals


• Lead user onboarding, training and adoption, then hand over to operational support

What you bring

• 8+ years' project management experience


• Proven delivery of enterprise data management or master data initiatives


• Solid understanding of MDM, data governance, metadata and reference data, data migration and data quality


• Experience delivering cloud-based data solutions, preferably on AWS


• Strong governance, executive reporting and stakeholder management skills


• Experience managing vendors and cross-functional teams

Advantageous

• Financial services or asset management experience


• Experience with Party/Client/Customer Master or MDM platforms, or data cataloguing and governance tools


• Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery

Qualifications

• Matric and tertiary degree, PMP, PRINCE2 and Agile Project Management


• Preferred: DAMA/CDMP, AWS Cloud Practitioner or Associate, Scrum Master or Agile certification