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EIM Data Analyst Discovery & Profiling

Centurion

Contract

Full-time

Job ID:

38517

Published date:

27-05-2026

Summary

Financial Services Department– Procurement Section

370 Helen Joseph Street

Pretoria

Request for Quote (RFQ)

Description of services Required:

For the provision of various roles for EIM:

EIM Senior Data Quality Specialist

Senior Reference and Master Data Management Specialists EIM Data Analyst Discovery & Profiling

EIM Data Lead

Date of issue 21 May 2026

Closing date: 29 May 2026 @ 12:00 p.m.

Issued by: Tshepiso Morema

Copyright Notice: This document contains information that is proprietary and confidential to the South African Reserve Bank who has all rights of copyright in it. Any dissemination, distribution, reproduction, or disclosure in any form of the content of this document is forbidden without prior written permission of the South African Reserve Bank.

1. Background

The South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) Financial Services Department (FSD), in

partnership with the Business Systems and Technology Department (BSTD), have

embarked on a multi-year programme made up of initiatives to modernise its back-office

capabilities. The Human Resources Department (HRD) was the first implementation on the

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Roadmap Programme which went live with Phase 2 in

2025. The next initiative within this Programme is the Financial Services Department with

the implementation of a unified financial planning and reporting solution, which will

consolidate the needs of two key divisions within the FSD: Financial Planning and Analysis

and Financial Reporting.

2. Objective of this Scope of Work

The main purpose of this position is to provide dedicated data quality services on the ERP

Roadmap (EPM Cloud Solution Project) for 18 months. This resource will be:

• Identifying Data Management solutions to solve business problems, bringing

business and information management together, translating business requirements into

data management solution requirements and conveying the business requirements into the

data and information management practices.

• Focusing on business optimisation and investigating more efficient ways of working

and organising resources to achieve business goals.

• Bringing together different elements of the business by performing a consolidation

and innovation role in order to create new or different alternatives and solutions

3. Scope of Services Definition

The scope will include but will not be limited to:

• To define organisational data quality strategy and framework within the SARB

against best practices

• To capacitate, build data quality skills and drive the data quality practice within the

SARB

• To lead and action data quality profiling, cleansing and remediation focusing on the

condition of data based on factors such as accuracy, completeness, consistency,

reliability and whether it's up to date.

• To assess the level to which data is fit for purpose for its intended use then develop

strategies and remediations to address any shortcomings.

• To deliver the Data Quality programme and its various initiatives across the SARB

organisation and subsidiaries where mandated.

• To conduct an assessment on data quality maturity levels within the SARB against

best practices.

• To develop standards, guidelines, processes, procedures for the quality of critical

data elements within the South African Reserve Bank.

• To develop and promote data quality awareness across the organisation

• To define data quality measurement and metrics for the critical data elements to

support reliable decision making

• To monitor, measure and report the data quality levels to create necessary

awareness and understanding of reliability of data

• To enable the improvement of the data quality levels by means of guiding and

training data stewards in all aspects of data quality (e.g. definition of data quality

business rules, data quality service levels, profiling, analysis and assessment of

data quality)

• To play an oversight role in the remediation of data quality issues

• To develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote data quality

awareness across the organisation and support reliable decision making

The service provider is required to submit a maximum of 3 CV’s that are suitably qualified and experienced resources in order to fulfil the requirements set out below:

4. Consultant Resource

Service Lines Resource

Level Start Date End Date

Days

Allocated

Rate per hour

[ZAR]

Data Quality

Specialist

EIM Senior Data

Quality Specialist 01 Jun 2026 30 November

2027 Full-time

Market related :

x 3,240 hours

Information

Management

Senior Reference

and Master Data

Management

Specialists

01 Jun 2026 30 November

2027 Full-time

Market related :

x 3,240 hours

Data Analyst

Discovery &

Profiling

EIM Data Analyst

Discovery &

Profiling

01 June

2026

30 November

2027 Full-time

Market related :

x 3240 hours

Data Engineer/

Data Lead EIM Data Lead 01 Jun 2026 30 Nov 2027

Full-time

3240

hours

Market related

Disclaimer – Rate per hour is inclusive of the following as set out in Part III Schedule D

clause 4&5 :

a) Resource rate;

b) Supplier mark-up;

c) Leave (Annual and Sick leave in accordance to Basic Condition of Employment

Section 198 of the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 (LRA); and

Employee Benefits (i.e. Medical/pension fund etc.)

To be considered for this position (Data Quality Specialist), candidates must have:

• B degree or equivalent (e.g., BCom Informatics, BSc Information Systems, BSc Informatics,

BTech); and

• Data Management Certification (e.g. DAMA CDMP) will be an added advantage

• Minimum eight years’ experience in business analysis; and

• Solid exposure to Agile methodology.

• Advanced knowledge of Information Management Business Analysis (minimum of 5 years’

experience in Information Management).

Competences:

• Knowledge of the Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) (essential)

• Basic software applications (e.g., Microsoft (MS) Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint,

Internet and e-mail) (essential)

• Skilled in using Data Quality tools (required)

• Analytical thinking

• Understand and analyse business processes

• Communication skills (verbal and written)

• Facilitation skills

• Quality orientation

• Negotiation skills

• Interpersonal relationship building and maintaining skills

• Facilitation of workshops skills

• To build customer loyalty

• Strong team player

• Motivated self-starter

• Enterprising

Key deliverables:

• Develop Business Cases

• Business Analysis Work Plan;

• Business Requirements Specification Document;

• Functional Requirements Specification Document;

• Information Matrix;

• User Stories;

• Change Request Document (where applicable);

• Participate in Quality Assurance;

• Participate in User Acceptance Testing.

• Business Analysis Measure and Feedback Report;

• Review Training documentation;

Day rates as specified herein shall be based on no less than 8 hours per day.

1. Scope of Services Definition (Senior Reference and Master Data Management

Specialists)

The scope will include but will not be limited to:

• To define and document reference data, master data requirements, business rules,

measurements and metrics for data domains to create an authoritative source of

truth for critical business information to enable effective decision making and

operational effectiveness.

• To define and manage master data relationships, hierarchies, and structures to

enable integrated entity views and support advanced analytics.

• To implement standards, guidelines, processes, procedures for reference and master

data within the South African Reserve Bank.

• To define and implement data matching and merging business rules to create a

single version of the truth

• To create, maintain, manage and integrate a reference and master data environment

that enables the standardisation of business information.

• To create the data taxonomies, catalogue, dictionary and manage the overall

metadata in scope.

• To monitor, measure, remediate, and report on reference and master data quality

metrics to ensure sustained data quality and identify areas of non-conformance.

• To develop, manage and maintain a reference data repository and a master data

repository for data domains across the SARB

• To contribute to the development of reference and master data standards,

frameworks and standard operating procedures

• To implement appropriate governance controls to maintain and manage reference

and master data

• To develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote reference and

master data management across the organisation.

Minimum Qualification Required:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Management

OR equivalent;

• A minimum of five to eight years’ experience in a data management environment

The following will be an added advantage:

Key performance measures:

• Competencies:

• Analysis and problem solving

• Effective communication

• Planning and organising

• Service and stakeholder focus

• Conceptual thinking

• Drive for results

• Attention to detail

2. Scope of Services Definition (EIM Data Analyst Discovery & Profiling)

The scope will include but will not be limited to:

To discover data by applying data discovery mechanisms to establish the data assets, within the context of the business value drivers, processes and data products, within scope.

To identify data profiles of data assets discovered to determine data sensitivity, quality, context of use and legislated aspects to inform the data assets handling protocols.

To implement standards, guidelines, processes, procedures for data analysis within scope.

To establish relationships between data elements and their impact on the business.

To conduct data analysis to determine various categories of data and information.

To apply data valuation techniques to determine the importance of the data to business and the probability of reuse.

To generate regular reports, deliver actionable insights, and provide timely status updates and information to support the management of data domains.

To provide inputs (legislative prescripts, sensitivity classifications, access/authorisation rules, etc.) as data transitions from source to destination and data at rest.

To be considered for this position (EIM Data Analyst Discovery & Profiling), candidates must

have:

• B degree or equivalent (e.g., BCom Informatics, BSc Information Systems, BSc Informatics,

BTech); and

• Data Management Certification (e.g. DAMA CDMP) will be an added advantage

• Minimum eight years’ experience in business analysis; and

• Solid exposure to Agile methodology.

• Advanced knowledge of Information Management Business Analysis (minimum of 5 years’

experience in Information Management).

Key performance measures:

• Knowledge of the Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) (essential)

• Basic software applications (e.g., Microsoft (MS) Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Internet

and e-mail) (essential)

• Skilled in using Data Quality tools (required)

• Analytical thinking

• Understand and analyse business processes

• Communication skills (verbal and written)

• Facilitation skills

• Quality orientation

• Negotiation skills

• Interpersonal relationship building and maintaining skills

• Facilitation of workshops skills

• To build customer loyalty

• Strong team player

• Motivated self-starter

• Enterprising

Key deliverables:

• Develop Business Cases

• Business Analysis Work Plan;

• Business Requirements Specification Document;

• Functional Requirements Specification Document;

• Information Matrix;

• User Stories;

• Change Request Document (where applicable);

• Participate in Quality Assurance;

• Participate in User Acceptance Testing.

• Business Analysis Measure and Feedback Report;

• Review Training documentation;

3. Objective of this Scope of Work (Data Engineer)

The Data Engineer will drive improvement of the data management maturity levels and

provide the necessary technical support within the South African Reserve Bank Group

(SARB Group) to support reliable and effective decision-making, appropriate usage and

protection thereof.

4. Scope of Services Definition

The scope will include but will not be limited to:

• To lead the Data Migration Workstream

• To facilitate review sessions with Business stakeholders, Implementation Partner, and

the Technical Team

• To review and facilitate sign off for data migration artifacts by all the relevant signatories

• To guide and facilitate activities and deliverables in the data migration workstream

• To develop, construct, test and maintain architectures.

• To ensure architectures will support the requirements of business.

• To discover opportunities for data acquisition and sharing.

• To develop data set processes for data modelling, mining and production.

• To employ a variety of languages and tools to marry systems together.

• To recommend way to improve data reliability, efficiency and quality.

• To prepare data for use in predictive and prescriptive modelling.

• To conduct research to answer industry and business questions.

• To leverage volumes of data from internal and external to answer business questions.

• To develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote data management

across the organisation and support reliable decision making and appropriate data usage.

• To participate and provide technical support in cross organisational activities relating

to any of the above mentioned data management activities.

• To provide regular progress reports as per stakeholder requirements and present data

management updates in various forums as required.

Minimum Qualification Required:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Management OR equivalent;

• A minimum of five to eight years’ experience in a data management environment

The following will be an added advantage:

Competencies:

• Analysis and problem solving

• Effective communication

• Planning and organising

• Service and stakeholder focus

• Conceptual thinking

• Drive for results

• Attention to detail

Key performance measures:

• To develop, construct, test and maintain data pipelines architectures.

• To ensure interoperability of systems by designing and maintaining integration

patterns (APIs, etc.), data exchange formats, and integration protocols.

• To design and build data pipelines that are robust, modular, scalable, deployable,

reproducible and versioned for data domains and business domains.

• To quality assure data pipelines implementations to ensure adherence to data

engineering frameworks and standards.

• To recommend ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality.

• To monitor and optimise domain-specific data pipelines to ensure reliable data

availability and sustained performance over time.

• To develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote data

management across the organisation and support reliable decision making and

appropriate data usage.

• To maintain documentation for data pipelines, integration processes, and

interoperability.

• To manage data growth patterns to plan infrastructure needs, ensure compliance with

retention frameworks, and support responsible data sharing.

• To enable and support the technical implementation of data management

capabilities, including, data quality, metadata management, master and reference

data management, data architecture and data modelling, data security and privacy,

data lifecycle and retention management, data cataloguing and lineage, and analytics

enablement.

Day rates as specified herein shall be based on no less than 8 hours per day.

5. Training and Transfer of Knowledge

Training and knowledge transfer documents to be submitted and presented to SARB

in a traceable and accessible repository to enable smooth handover to SARB

employees when need arises and or at the end of each project.

6. Reporting

All consultants will report directly to EIM Manager.

7. Post Implementation Support

As applicable.

8. Terms and Conditions

8.1. Standard terms and conditions of the Temporary Employment Services (TES) Agreement

shall govern this RFQ.

8.2. The following additional terms and conditions will apply:

8.2.1. TES Panel Engagement model

a) In the event that the Customer requires a TES resource, a competitive process will

be followed in which the Customer will execute a procurement process. A request

for quotation (RFQ) process will be followed to obtain proposals/CVs from

Suppliers on the TES Panel for a specific resource role.

b) The panel engagement model will be one that focuses on quality over quantity in

that the Customer will request a limited number of from each Supplier on the TES

panel (based on the category). The Suppliers on the TES panel will be required to

submit a proposal/CV as well as any other required documentation for the provision

of a TES resource for the specific role/s.

c) The Supplier will therefore endeavour to put forward their best available candidates

for each role needed by the Customer.

d) A clearly defined objective and scope of work required minimum qualifications,

minimum years of experience, SOW duration including expected availability dates,

and expected deliverables, among other things, together with the nature and

reasons for the temporary engagement, will be published for the Supplier to

respond to. The Supplier must respond to the Customer request within 7 (seven)

Business Days.

e) Failure by the Supplier to respond within the specified time will result in the

Supplier’s proposal not being considered.

f) The Suppliers will ensure that a prospective candidate makes him/herself available

for a formal interview on the proposed interview date. The Customer will give

reasonable notice of the interview date to the Supplier. The Parties will ensure that

the interview takes place within 10 (ten) Business Days from the date that the

Customer has advised the Supplier that the prospective candidate has been

shortlisted by the Customer.

9. Temporary Employment Service

9.1.1. Supplier will ensure that the temporary employment resources provided by the Supplier

have the necessary tools, for example, laptop (including but not limited to Office 365 (MS

Project or MS Visio as required), anti-virus software, One Drive, etc.) and cell phone,

and if the Service is performed remotely, sufficient data and reliable connectivity to

perform the Service.

9.1.2. In the event that the Service is rendered at a Customer premises, the Customer will

provide parking, a workstation, excluding a laptop and cell phone, connectivity, printing

facilities, etc.

10. Pricing

10.1.1. The Service Fee proposed by the Supplier must be based on a transparent model, be

comparative and market related, and the Supplier may be required to demonstrate how

they approached determining the rates and how the rates were benchmarked against IT

industry rates. The model must clearly indicate the cost elements that constitute the

overall rate per resource as follows:

Cost Breakdown element Weight

Resource rate

Employee Benefits *

Mark-up*

Leave benefits

Rate 100

* The Employee Benefit and Mark-Up is calculated as a percentage of the Resource

Rate.

10.1.2. In the event that the supplier bidder does not provide the resource with Employee Benefits

the cost breakdown must be as follows:

10.1.3. The Supplier as the employer of the temporary employment resource will be liable for

payment of the temporary employment resource’s renumeration payment of overtime, leave

and any other employment benefits that may be payable to the temporary employment

resource.

11. Selection

11.1. The Customer will upon receiving the Supplier proposals review and identify the best suited

TES resource for temporary deployment. An interview with the shortlisted and further

selected resource and/or reference checks may be conducted, at the sole discretion of the

Customer.

11.2. The Supplier will advise all prospective candidates upfront of the Customer’s vetting and

security requirements and will not propose any prospective candidate that is unwilling or

unable to comply with the said requirements. Although the Customer will carry the cost of

its own vetting requirements, the Supplier and or the prospective candidate will be

responsible for its own costs in attending to and completing the vetting forms and attending

vetting appointments.

11.3. The Supplier undertakes to, at its own costs, conduct regular credit, qualification verification,

criminal record, and employment history, as well as reference checks for all TES resources

proposed/provided prior to proposing/putting forward such resources.

11.4. The shortlisted resources will be invited for interviews and will be selected based on the

outcome of the interview.

I, __________________________, (ID _________________________________) hereby declare

the following:

1. I am contracted by ________________________________ (Contracting House) and placed

at the South African Reserve Bank as __________________ on a full-time basis.

2. As per the agreement between SARB and the Contracting House, I am allocated to the role

at SARB in my full capacity.

3. I am not considering SARB (via my Contracting House) as one of multiple clients.

4. I confirm that I am not contracted by any other employer or Contracting House.

5. I confirm that this declaration reflects true and accurate information that I consider as binding

on my conscious.

6. I understand that breach of this undertaking may result in legal action.

7. I acknowledge that the South African Resave Bank has reserved all its rights.

Signed at _____________on this ___ day of ______________ 2024.

___________________________

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