Join a prominent and established asset management company founded in Cape Town, South Africa. With a strong commitment to providing competitive long-term returns to clients, the company has grown into a leading brand in the South African investment industry. As active investment managers, they focus on specialist equity and multi-asset portfolios in global emerging and frontier markets. With assets totalling R627 billion (as of June 2023), they serve a diverse clientele, including institutional and retail investors both locally and internationally. Become part of this successful and employee-owned organization dedicated to delivering world-class investment solutions.The RoleA data expert who is able to confidently move from architectural definition and technical guidance to hands-on implementation and troubleshooting.Design, implement and future-proof data solutions to provide and guarantee accurate, consistent, timeous data to meet the business needs.Provide architecture artefacts in accordance with business and project requirements.Conceptualize on-premise, cloud components, security, networking, and monitoring solutions for data needs.Provide plans to migrate existing complex on-premises data solutions to cloud platforms when applicable.Identify and lead cross-functional team members, partner with your peers in the organisation and connect business objectives with technical vision.Lead, manage and grow a team of data specialists;analysts, modellers, and engineers.Assist in hiring and mentoring engineers, and build a high-performing team.Work on project management tasks associated with allocating resources and identifying risk items.Plan to explore and grow new technology in support of future organisational direction.Participate in the evolution and direction of the company’s data strategy.Champion the adoption of industry best practices to push the development standards.Provide thought-leadership, knowledge-sharing and advisory services.ExperienceBSc or MSc degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.Track record in building and running large-scale systems professionally for 10+ years.Experience in communicating with and presenting to senior stakeholders.Minimum of 5years of experience in a technical leadership role, leading teams that design, architect and implement complex data-centric systems.Minimum of 5 years experience with technology development and delivery, with a particular focus on on-premise, cloud and/or hybrid data platforms.Experience using services and components such as ADF, Synapse, Databricks, Compute, containers, integration, storage, web and DevOps.Possess a deep understanding of database systems (e.g. MySQL, MS SQL, non-relational DBs) including modelling, design, scalability, performance and high availability.Proficient in UML, BPM, and the use of Architecture Design tools e.g. Sparx or similar experience using tools such as Lucid or Visio.#J-18808-Ljbffr