Data & Analytics Manager
About the role
AXIAN Digibank & Fintech is looking to hire a Data & Analytics Manager on a 3-year fixed-term contract to own data architecture and lead data migration for core wallet and banking platforms. The role is open in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Antananarivo and Islamabad. Responsibilities: - Own and maintain the current-state data architecture across legacy wallet and banking platforms, including data models, data flows, interfaces and lineage. - Design and maintain the target-state data architecture on the selected core wallet platform and the surrounding ecosystem (LMS, payment gateways, card management, agent management, KYC/AML, GL, reporting). - Define the end-to-end data migration strategy for each deployment: profiling, extraction, mapping, transformation, cleansing, load, reconciliation, parallel run, cutover and rollback. - Establish a data quality framework, KPIs and tooling (completeness, accuracy, consistency, timeliness, uniqueness and validity) across migration and target platforms. - Define and enforce data protection standards: encryption at rest and in transit, key management, masking and tokenization, and secure handling of PII and financial data. - Hand over BI/analytics tooling and runbooks cleanly to BAU Data and Operations teams. - Manage core platform data migration teams and third-party data vendors against SOW deliverables, SLAs and quality gates. How to apply: Apply via the AXIAN Group careers portal (Job Reference: req4939): https://axian-group.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/4939?c=axian-group
Key requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics or a related field.
- Minimum 8 years in data engineering, data architecture or data delivery roles, with at least 3 years in fintech, mobile money, digital banking or telecom.
- Demonstrable hands-on experience owning data architecture (current and target state) across enterprise-grade platforms, including conceptual, logical and physical data modelling.
- Proven track record leading data migration as workstream lead on at least one large-scale platform deployment or swap, ideally a core wallet or core banking platform.
- Experience standing up analytics, BI and regulatory reporting on a new core platform and handing it over to BAU teams.
- Experience working across African markets, ideally multi-country, with exposure to local data protection and reporting regulations.
- Data architecture
- Data migration
- Data modelling
- Data quality
- Business intelligence
- Data protection