Investec Bank Mauritius Ltd

Leading the transformation of our tech capabilities with a focus on excellence and client-centric service. 

- Leading the Mauritius Tech team and fostering a culture of excellence.
- Implementing leadership development programs for sustainability.
- Enhancing accountability and aligning expectations with organisational goals.

Introduced operational and governance processes, aligned with industry standards, enhancing efficiency and compliance. Collaborated with fellow senior leadership to set strategic directions and reported to the Board of Directors on Technology initiatives.

My role also involved aligning technology strategy with organisational objectives, enabling digital servicing, and ensuring a cutting-edge digital experience for clients. Accountable for overseeing IT budgets, technology architecture, and application roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business goals and mitigating risks.

With a dedicated team, we've consistently achieved our objectives on time, within budget, and to the highest standard.

Chief Information Officer

Provide leadership, mentoring, development and coaching to team members. Remove obstacles for the team to deliver and cultivate passionate, talented individuals who are empowered and committed.

Create and design the Data Strategy for Investec Specialist Bank, and develop the measurement framework to track maturity and progress.

Operational and Strategic management of the Business Intelligence & Operational Analytics capability within Private Bank. Identify and test Machine learning use cases and implementation of the models within Private Bank South Africa. 

Refactor and design of business intelligence data architecture. Implementation of auto data warehousing to ensure delivery of data consistency and efficiency within the environment.

In short... we make the “data magic” for Investec!

Head Business Intelligence Private Bank South Africa & Global Digital

CyberPro Consulting (Pty) Ltd

Senior Data Scientists at Investec,  working on democratizing analytics within the organization.

Senior Data Scientist

South African Revenue Service (SARS)

Developed and introduced a new reporting methodology and mechanism which integrates multiple measures within one interface to increase data utilisation and management of day-to-day activities. It also allows Management to see the impact of decisions and track the success rate of strategic priorities in a very short space of time. Recommendations for corrective actions with probability of success are also shown based on Predictive Model outputs.

Debt Collection Predictive Model - Developed and implemented a collectability model for Debt Collection; the model enables debt collectors to work on debt cases with the highest probability of payment, thereby reducing the total case load and increase efficiency. The implementation of this model brought on a new era in the way the organisation utilises information and analytics to improve processes and performance.

Assisted the World Bank with a Macro Economic modelling exercise regarding the effectiveness of Corporate tax incentives in the current tax system. The outcome of the study was used as input to the Davis Tax Committee on possible tax reform changes.

Provide insight to Executive & Senior management on possible behavioural shifts of taxpayers and changes in submission and payment patterns, quantify future risk factors with probability of occurrence and highlight possible solutions.

Developed and managed the Submission Forecast models used to track submissions of Taxpayers and Employers during both filing seasons. The Filing Season submissions and Forecasts are the official view of the filing seasons in the organisation. 

Provide career mentoring and shaping of BEE talent to ensure optimal fit and results for the division and organisation. Responsible for management of a team of analysts, specialist and data engineers driving the strategic direction of future projects.

Manager Performance Analytics

Nedbank

End-to-end Costing and Profitability

Designed, implemented and produced the product profitability reports, which included all Capital, Funding, Revenue and cost components for each product.

Established a process to ensure a central view of the Bank’s product profitability was done at Group Finance Divisional level.

Transfer Pricing

Key role player in the Design, management and execution of the Central Transfer Pricing model to determine the Inward Transfer Pricing for all Clusters. The results were crucial in ensuring the financial statements of the bank were correctly portrayed.

Manager Activity Based Costing & Product Profitability

Dex Data

Obtained in-depth knowledge of life and short term insurance industries specifically on pricing models and Valuation.

Engaged with external clients on new business opportunities and ventures.

Understanding and quantifying risk elements within business, and plan accordingly based on quantitative data, empirical and scientific evidence

Statistician

Rentmeester Assurance

Obtained valuable knowledge on the application of Statistical Modelling and Forecasting methodologies in order to assist management with organisational decisions at Operational and Strategic level.

Actuarial Assistant

As the Chief Information Officer at Investec Bank Mauritius Ltd, I lead the transformation of our tech capabilities with a focus on excellence and client-centric service.

My core competencies include data analytics, machine learning, leadership development, operational and governance processes, and digital servicing. I have a restless spirit and a passion for questioning the conventional and using my imagination to help teams solve complex problems.

Daniel Seymore

Investec

-	Responsible for architecting a holistic Data Strategy for the Client Technology division that includes 
        modernization using Azure cloud technology, that enables Data engineering, Data analysis and Data 
        Science as well as Data Quality, Reference Data Management and Metadata Management. 
-	Aligning closely with the Group Data Strategy for Data Mesh
-	Architecting a data platform for each platform team within client technology.
-	Working closely with Application Owners and Product Owners and Other BI divisional teams.
-	Presenting Client Data Strategy and Progress at Technology Roadmaps
-	Responsible for putting together a team of Data Engineers, Data Analysts and Data Scientist to 
        enable the delivery of the Data Strategy
-	Leading a Data Team
-	Mentoring Graduates in Data Engineering, Data Analysis and Data Science.
-	Designing the data security model for accessing data from each of the data products in each data 
        platform.
-	Managing 4 data platforms in Client Technology
-	Responsible for developing a data literacy program within client technology.
-	Creating and managing budgets for all data analytics platforms and other data tools used in client 
        Tech.
-	Making data available to the whole of Investec in a form of data products

Data Architect and Data Lead - Client Technology

-	Responsible for designing the data architecture for any projects presented at the solutions design 
        forum.
-	Building relationships with key stakeholders
-	Understanding any data issues and finding solutions
-	Managing reference data for Private bank
-	Making sure we source data from SOR and not SORef.
-	Designing the data quality solution for single of client project (Risk Entity Information Store) for 
        Investec North (UK) and South (SA)
-	Developing Data Models for the single view of client by working closely with the entity data subject 
        matter expert

Data Architect - Private Bank IT

Absa Group

-	Drive/Lead Stakeholder Engagement and value alignment to enable team and or myself to be able to fulfill the business data need. 
-	Regularly meet with business unit representatives to identify, interpret, document/review business requirements, and needs through interaction in the form of meetings or JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions. 
-	Perform a formal quality assessment of requirements from business with the project manager and my team members (Information Analysts). 
-	Identify the potential information sources required by the business users and what enhancements must be done to satisfy the required business need.
-	Decide on the best technology to deliver the change and liaise with either;
      •	Streamsets development team
      •	Kafka development team
      •	Oracle development team
      •	Hadoop development team
      •	Denodo development team, 
while carefully balancing
      •	Patterns
      •	Requirements
      •	Elegance and 
      •	Concepts
-	Document and present cost analysis to business. 
-	Facilitate prototyping of Solutions (data and technical)
-	Ensuring consistent delivery in alignment with compliance, risk and information governance through designs and the monitoring of the development of the designs, included is  
      •Data Quality 
      •Metadata Management 
      •Master Data Management 
      •Data Profiling 
      •Transformation Rules 
-	Create Source to Target Mappings for data ingestion into Hadoop/Teradata
-	Perform ETL testing (structure and data accuracy testing)
-	Lead and manage knowledge sharing team Mentoring

Skills and Knowledge Acquired in this role:
-      Apache KafKa
-      Hadoop
-      Spark
-      Scala
-      Becoming a precise communicator
-	A good listener
-	Relationship skills
-	Adapted to dealing with different opinions
-	Improved decision making

Information Analyst & Data Modeller

Rand Merchant Bank

-	Leading the Informatica team
-	Manage Informatica/Integration changes
-	Leading Innovation within Integration to accommodate the changing IT environment within the team and the bank.
-	Improve Integration Operations process.
-	Deﬁne Integration Standards.
-	Advice and deﬁne implementation of Integration layer.
-	Mentor ETL team.
-	Develop POC's for architects/team on improvement of integration layer.
-	Develop POC's for team and architects on a new product of Informatica e.g BCB239 for
Informatica (Metadata Manager).
-	Deﬁne technical speciﬁcations standards for our domain and ensure team adherence.
-	Ensure all ETL solutions adhere to enterprise/data architecture standards and designs.
-	Ensure all technologies used are within the Enterprise Architecture stack.
-	Perform technical solution reviews.
-	Ensure integration auditing is well designed to prove and adhere to BCBS239 standards on
-	Technical lineage and data completeness.
-	Support Data Stewards on development and maintenance of the Business Glossary for Business
-	Lineage to adhere to BCBS239 standards.
-	Ensure resolutions to technical audit ﬁndings.
-	Ensure all minimum process documentation is deﬁned and available.
-	Ensure technical solutions are stable and scalable to meet business needs.
-	Plan for overall integration performance testing after software and or hardware upgrades.
-	Plan for DR (Disaster Recovery) and maintain, ensure backups are available.
-	Contribute to RMB Integration Landscape and road map Innovation.
-	Research disruptive technologies and how they can and will change the landscape of Integration
within our environment.

Skills Acquired in this role
-      BCBS239 
-      Apache KafKa
-      Hadoop
-	Growing out of development role
-	Great relationship with Architect(s)
-	Wide knowledge in Tools, Techniques, troubleshooting/debugging
-	Adept at creating technical specification
-	Adept at build and configuration management

Lead Integration Developer

Barclays Africa Group

Led the Integration Implementation
Sign-oﬀ all functional speciﬁcations from Business Analysts 2.
Understand high level ACM (Algo Credit Manager 5.2.0) model 
Understand ACM Databox structures.
Loads based on product procedures stated.
Adhere to best practices of ETL development.
Managed the ETL testing with 4 testers
Error handling - Minimal RTB (Run the Bank) intervention (Overnight Support) 
Administered the Scheduling of all ETL processes Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Master Reference Service - Interfacing with the master reference service 
Understand and challenge how the master reference service is exposed to the ETL.

Lead ETL Developer

OpenSymmetry

SPM Consultant (Integration)

Data integration, ETL/Mapping, ETL migrations.
Writing and analysing complex SQL queries.
Troubleshooting performance bo  lenecks in code Supporting and Maintaining the Automated
Suspicious Activity Monitoring System (ASAM), Sonic (Client data), ODS, CCE (Credit) XML &
MQ Messaging (MQ Visual Editor, MQ Explorer)Liase with BA's to contribute to the speciﬁcation
process to ensure a quality end product.
Data analysis - had to understand the business in order to be able to perform data analysis.
Data modelling. 
Working knowledge of ODS and Data Warehousing concepts. 
Production Support.

ETL Developer (Informatica)

Liberty Life

Establish the best method of extracting the required data from the Compass relational database and
our internal Finance and Warehouse Databases which involves liaison with business analysts as well
as other systems developers (mostly using PL/SQL packages as OWB was discontinued).
Systems testing of procedures/packages prior to handover to business area(s) for their acceptance
testing.
Running monthly loads using WebSphere DataStage Director V8.1 to rebuild DB2 tables and SQL
Server 2005 tables and load data from data sets created from ftp'd text ﬁles.

BI Developer

Absa Bank (Absa Towers)

Design the ETL Process using Oracle Warehouse Builder 9i and 3i.
Liase with client, Project Manager and Business Analysts.
Proof check the spec from the systems analysts.
Document testing as proof to production team.
Proof test the development work for my team members and sign it oﬀ before it is taken to
Production.

ETL Developer

To contribute my knowledge and skills in Business Intelligence and Consulting related areas with
emphasis on integration, analysis and Architecture. To apply these in an environment in which
these skills are valued and valuable. To have and to create opportunities to improve and broaden my
skill set to ensure that I continue to be an asset to colleagues and to the organisation.

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