Head of Data Analytics and Automation (m/f)

Duties

• Responsible for managing several projects within the constraints of scope, quality, time and cost
• Accountable for defining the organizational analytics strategy and model methodology working closely with the business to significantly improve business insights based on a strong understanding of business processes, systems and objectives
• Works closely with data team to inform and scope the development of the data architecture and governance framework to ensure the platform/s are able to scale up, deal with variety of data for analytics purposes and support changing business priorities across all business systems with clear roles and accountabilities
• Develop and apply analytical algorithms and methods with a view of driving and enhancing data systems and streamlining business processes.
• Design necessary systems and processes to ensure robust, accurate and timely information which is available to support decision making
• Provide thought leadership on analytics by establishing best practices and creating an execution plan for the overall delivery of the analytics strategy and vision
• Lead key analytical projects and processes to deliver actionable insights and recommendations for enhancing operational efficiencies, growing the capability
• Participate in design, definition, planning, development, and implementation of end to end business intelligence and analytics solutions
• Delivers specified requirements and meets customer satisfaction
• Delivers the required product(s) for each project, phase or stage
• Ensures that quality is achieved as planned
• Deliver to time and cost within agreed tolerances
• Manages the people, work and resources involved
• Establishes and updates plans with actuals and forecasts
• Manages deviations from plan
• Reports to respective stakeholders
• Escalates decisions and unresolved issues
• Champion intelligent automation in assigned Business area
• Facilitate the Business to identify opportunities, and lead assessment there-of
• Facilitate development of business cases and agree estimated benefits with Business
• Facilitate prioritization of work with Business
• Plan execution and delivery of benefits
• Identify appropriate business stakeholders and ensure their engagement with development teams
• Oversee execution of plans and report status to Business
• Remove blockers to delivery and escalate risks and issues when appropriate
• Manage dependencies
• Do capacity planning and manage utilization of resources
• Report regularly to Business stakeholders on progress, risks and issues
• Develop accurate cost and resource estimates and ensure delivery against agreed budgets, maintaining transparent financials in adherence with Finance best practices

Requisites

• Namibian Citizen
• Bachelor of Engineering (BEng)
• Any Engineering Degree or Similar Qualification related to Robotic/Data/Process Automation
• 5-7 years of industry and development experience
• Experience developing and testing software
• A track record in the successful delivery and support of excel macros, Visual Basic scripts or other configuring/scripting type technology
• Knowledge of Blue Prism will be an added advantage
• Understanding of workflow-based logic and the ability to both understand a business process from a workflow diagram and top conceptualize it as an automated solution

Notes

• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted