Project Management (Data System Projects and Environments)

Position Overview:

The incumbent manages the systems administration function and leads the organisation's system projects and environments. He/She focuses on setting goals and priorities and on mentoring and coordination as well as providing technical leadership. He/She plans and oversees systems upgrades and migrations and ensures systems are up-to-date with the latest patches and are coherent across the organisation. He/She directs the development and maintenance of technical documentation.

He/She possesses strong leadership and communication abilities, and is able to set realistic goals and implement appropriate plans to guide the team toward achieving those goals. He/She is able to address multi-faceted issues effectively and in a collaborative manner including across departments.

Responsibilities:

1. Set system administration processes
   • Establish goals and priorities, design, planning, day-to-day operation, maintenance, and advanced troubleshooting of systems
   • Align system administration with overall strategic IT service direction and business needs
   • Assist with the development of business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for spending and initiatives
   • Anticipate internal and/or external business challenges and/or regulatory issues
   • Develop policies, procedures, and controls to ensure system security
2. Develop New Systems
   • Partner with stakeholders to recommend innovative and automated approaches for system administration
   • Define systems requirements for new technology implementations
   • Prepare for system expansion by studying plans and requirements
   • Oversee the design, maintenance and implementation of the systems
   • Prioritise tasks to ensure projects are implemented in accordance with project plans and budgets
3. Optimise Systems Performance
   • Recommend process, product or service improvements, resource optimisation and cost savings
   • Oversee hardware and software upgrades
   • Recommend new technologies, methodologies, systems or opportunities for cost savings, security and service quality improvement
4. Manage Teams
   • Oversee team management including budgets, forecasting, work allocations and staffing
   • Develop staff through ongoing coaching, mentoring and career discussions
   • Define common goals, direction and accountability among staff
   • Drive effective performance management practices within department in accordance with company policies and procedures

Requirements / Qualifications

1. Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering
2. Experience in developing, implementing and maintaining data projects or analytics systems with at least 8 years of project operation management experience
3. Highly-motivated self-starter who will undertake all activities to the highest professional standards
4. Must be cloud certified. Working experience in IDMC, Databricks, Sagemaker, Tableau with AWS exposure
5. Good in-depth understanding of data warehouse concepts, data profiling, data verification and advanced analytics techniques
6. Experience in managing a team in operations support and project implementation work
7. Certification in IT operation management is preferred