Master Data & Data Quality Manager

Location: Kenya

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

1. Master Data Management (MDM)

• Execute the Enterprise Master Data strategy to ensure a single source of truth across all KCB Group technology and platforms.
• Ensure the creation, maintenance, matching, merging, syndication, and retirement of master data across systems, ensuring data consistency, integrity and effective management of hierarchies and relationships.
• Collaborate with the Metadata Manager to ensure master data entities map accurately to enterprise data catalogs and business glossaries.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, business, and data governance requirements for master data.

1. Data Quality Management

• Lead the institutionalization of Data Quality frameworks, defining metrics, KPIs, and thresholds (accuracy, completeness, consistency).
• Deploy automated continuous profiling and monitoring tools to proactively catch and flag data defects.
• Liaise with the Data Governance Team to assign data stewards and establish data quality issue escalation paths.
• Conduct root-cause analysis on data anomalies and execute remediation strategies with technical and business owners.

1. Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Data Quality Analysts and MDM specialists.
• Collaborate with IT, Data Engineering, and Analytics teams to implement robust, automated data cleansing and standardization processes.
• Embed a data quality mindset across bank business units.

 

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

The preferred candidate will meet the following minimum criteria:

• Hold a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Data Science, Statistics or similar related field from a recognized university.
• Professional qualifications in data management or relevant quality management is an added advantage.
• At least five years' relevant working experience in data management in a similar sized organisation, including specific experience in the below areas:
  • Master data management, preferably in financial services sector.
  • Working with data quality frameworks and tools (e.g., Great Expectations, Deequ, Talend, Informatica, Collibra DQ, Ataccama).
  • MDM platforms and data warehouse environments
  • Working with python, SQL and data transformation tools
  • Stakeholder management of diverse calibre and multi-cultural environments
  • Core banking systems and/or CRM architectures will be an added advantage.
• Strong knowledge of metadata concepts: business/technical metadata, data lineage, ontologies, glossaries, and catalog best practices.
• Strong knowledge of data protection and data security protocols.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.

Reporting to the Executive Head, Enterprise Data Management, the role leads the bank's Master Data Management (MDM) and Data Quality (DQ) programs. The job holder is responsible for driving the data quality strategy to ensure that critical Group data is accurate, consistent, and compliant with both internal and regulatory standards.