Position Overview:

• As a Data Lead, you will be instrumental in managing our data landscape with a focus on governance, accuracy, and integration. Your role will ensure that data is meticulously managed in compliance with governance requirements and that accurate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are available across the value chain to drive efficient production planning, optimization, and reporting.
• You will facilitate timely and effective decision-making by ensuring data is well-integrated and managed, maintaining a single version of the truth that aligns with business processes and supports citizen report building. Additionally, you will oversee the stability and accuracy of data flows, ensuring seamless alignment between data marts to support ongoing improvements and strategic objectives.

Minimum Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

• BSc Engineering (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
• BSc Computer Science (Essential/Minimum or)
• BEng Engineering (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
• BEng Computer Engineering (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate First Line Management (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE:

• 3-5 years Relevant experience within a heavy industry, mining, production environment. Knowledge of development processes. With proven technical aptitude in one or more application programming domain. Ability to work in Agile and non-Agile environments. With a minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in using data to empower better decision making, through reporting, analyses and models. Need to have a good understanding of data and the business (Essential/Minimum) (Operational)

REQUIREMENTS:

• Certificate in SQL Database Coding (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Competence: Simulation Modelling (Essential/Minimum)
• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Competence: MS Office Relevant Package (Essential/Minimum)
• Competence: Discipline Specific Program (Recommended/Desirable)

Duties & Responsibilities

Ideal Candidate Profile (Includes but not limited to):

Ability to:

• Ensure data is managed according to data governance requirements
• Ensure the availability of accurate Key Performance Indicators on a value chain level as required by business to support efficient and effective production planning, optimization and reporting
• Enable effective in time decision making facilitating year on year improvements through data management
• Ensure data is integrated and managed in a manner that ensures and maintains a single version of the truth, available in the required time frame and aligned to business processes to enable citizen report building
• Ensure stable, accurate data flows and alignment between the data marts