Absa Bank Limited
Product Engineer – Reference Data Management
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
Implementing and operationalising Reference Data Management capabilities on the Ataccama platform, including reference hierarchies, taxonomies, lifecycle management, governance controls, approval workflows, stewardship processes and onboarding of new reference domains
While Reference Data Management will be the primary area of focus, the role forms part of a broader Enterprise Data Management platform team and requires collaboration across Master Data Management, Data Quality, Metadata, Data Catalog and Data Governance capabilities
Job Description
The ideal candidate is an experienced enterprise application specialist with a proven track record of implementing, configuring, enhancing, and supporting business critical applications. The individual should be capable of engaging with business stakeholders to understand requirements, translating those requirements into application solutions, configuring workflows and business rules, and supporting the ongoing evolution of the platform. Experience gained on other enterprise applications is valued, as the role requires the ability to rapidly learn and become proficient in new platforms and technologies.
The successful candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, data stewards, architects, and engineering teams to understand business requirements, evaluate product capabilities, configure solutions, and deliver enhancements that meet business objectives.
This role is suited to candidates with experience implementing, configuring, and supporting enterprise applications. It is not a traditional infrastructure support or server administration role. Success in this position requires the ability to understand business requirements, leverage product capabilities, configure solutions, and deliver measurable business outcomes
Key Responsibilities
- Engage with business stakeholders to understand operational challenges, business requirements, and process improvement opportunities.
- Analyse business requirements and translate them into application configurations, workflows, business rules, and platform capabilities.
- Recommend solutions based on product functionality and industry best practices.
- Facilitate requirement workshops, solution discussions, and user demonstrations.
Business Requirements & Solution Design
- Strong ability to understand product capabilities, limitations, and configuration options.
- Ability to align business requirements with standard platform capabilities and best practices.
- Experience working with enterprise platforms such as MDM, Data Quality, Metadata Management, Governance, ERP, CRM, Workflow, or Case Management solutions.
- Ability to assess when requirements should be solved through configuration, customization, process change, or integration.
Product Expertise
- Ensure solutions are aligned to architectural standards, governance policies, and business objectives.
- Configure workflows, business rules, approval processes, data models, validation rules, and application features to meet business needs.
- Own the delivery of enhancements from requirements analysis through design, configuration, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Participate in the implementation of new capabilities, modules, and enhancements.
- Collaborate with vendors, architects, and development teams to deliver business solutions.
- Evaluate product features and identify opportunities to improve business processes through configuration rather than customization.
Application Configuration & Implementation
- Act as a functional and technical SME for assigned applications.
- Drive adoption of platform capabilities and identify opportunities to maximize business value.
- Provide guidance to business users on best practices and optimal use of the application.
- Maintain awareness of product roadmaps and emerging capabilities
- Define and maintain reusable Reference Data Management implementation patterns, templates and standards.
- Support onboarding of new reference data domains, hierarchies and governance processes onto the platform
- Monitor reference data quality, lifecycle compliance, approval workflows and stewardship processes, and investigate and resolve data inconsistencies, hierarchy issues, validation failures and governance exceptions
- Manage incidents related to data integrity, synchronization, and platform availability.
- Perform root cause analysis and implement long-term solutions to recurring issues
- Engage with product vendors and implementation partners to resolve complex issues, evaluate new capabilities, and support platform roadmap initiatives
Product Ownership & Continuous Improvement
- Business Analysis and Requirements Elicitation.
- Process Analysis and Workflow Design.
- Enterprise Application Configuration and Implementation.
- Stakeholder Management and Facilitation.
- Solution Design using Out-of-the-Box Product Capabilities.
- Functional Consulting and Advisory Skills.
- Ability to rapidly learn and become proficient in new enterprise applications.
- Strong understanding of business processes and data-driven decision making.
- Experience leading workshops, demonstrations, and user engagement sessions.
Key Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, or a related field. Certifications in MDM, DQ, or metadata tools are a plus.
- 5+ years of experience implementing, configuring, enhancing, and supporting enterprise applications in complex business environments.
- Experience working with MDM, Data Quality, Metadata Management, Governance, ERP, CRM, Workflow, Case Management, or other business-critical enterprise platforms is highly desirable.
- Candidates should demonstrate the ability to engage business stakeholders, translate requirements into solutions, and successfully deliver business outcomes through application configuration and platform capabilities.
- Demonstrated experience translating business requirements into configured application solutions and successfully delivering business outcomes
- Experience participating in application implementations, upgrades, migrations, or platform transformation initiatives.
- Experience working in Agile, DevOps, or product-centric delivery environments.
Qualifications
- Reference data domains
- Hierarchy management
- Taxonomies
- Workflow approvals
- Stewardship models
- Reference data lifecycle management
- Data classification and standards management
- Data Governance, Master Data Management, Reference Data Management, Metadata Management or Data Quality initiatives
- Informatica MDM, IDQ or EDC.
- Ataccama ONE.
- Collibra.
- Talend.
- SAP MDG.
- Salesforce.
- Oracle, SAP or other enterprise application platforms
Desirable Experience
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised
