Metadata Analyst

Location:

Johannesburg, ZA

Date: 2 Feb 2026

Reference: 143896

Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact

Requisition nr: 143896
Talent Acquisition Specialist: Tshego Semenya
Location: 135 Rivonia Road, Sandown
Closing date: 10 February 2026

Cluster

Personal and Private Banking

Career Stream

It Application Development

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Technical

Position

Metadata Analyst

Why join the team!

Step into a role where your expertise in data management drives real business value. As a Metadata Analyst within the cluster, you become a key enabler of data accuracy, governance, and operational excellence across the organisation. This role lets you shape how information is understood, structured, and consumed—supporting smarter decisions, reducing risk, and creating consistency across the data landscape. You’ll collaborate closely with business and technical teams, helping them capture, organise, and optimise their metadata through modern tools and evolving standards. Beyond technical work, you influence processes, improve governance practices, and contribute to building a trusted data foundation that supports new systems, automation initiatives, and enterprise-wide innovation. If you’re passionate about improving data quality, enjoy solving complex information challenges, and want a space where your analytical and communication skills can shine, this opportunity offers meaningful impact, continuous learning, and a platform to grow your career in the expanding world of data management.

Job Purpose

Act as subject matter expert to business on metadata management related matters and drive metadata governance into the business.
To guide and assist business in capturing their metadata onto the enterprise metadata repository.
Review, maintain and update standards, policies, and procedure documents.

Job Responsibilities

Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in Nedbank culture building initiatives, business strategy, and CSI.
Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, ensuring personal and professional growth.
Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and values, leading by example.
Identify opportunities to improve or enhance processes.
Add value to Nedbank by supporting the implementation of new processes, policies, and systems including automation of existing processes where possible.
Enable stakeholders to consume metadata in the most effective and efficient way through understanding and translating business stakeholder requirements .
Ensure aligned delivery of the requirements, translating stakeholder requirements into the physical implementation value chain.
Identify opportunities for re-use and optimisation.
Understand data quality issues, relationships, patterns, and rules in the data.
Build a common foundation and ensure currency and consistency and accommodate Nedbank specific business needs.
Reduce cost and time to market and increase opportunity for accuracy of metadata by standardising glossaries, taxonomies, and terms across the data landscape.
Ensure complete and correct metadata is captured.
Facilitate dataflow understanding.
Mitigate risk of non-compliance.
Keep abreast of legislation and other industry changes that impacts on role.
Contribute to the achievement of team goals.
Ensure knowledge management, continuity, and team success.
Meet commitment to stakeholders.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
Diploma

Preferred Qualification

BCom Information Technology
BA Certification
CDMP

Minimum Experience Level

2 to 3 years in ETL development experience
2 to 3 years in metadata management / data governance related experience
1 to 2 years of data / business / process analysis experience

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Role relevant related technologies
Single IT product knowledge
Systems Analysis and design
IT Architecture
Modelling (ARIS /UML)
IT Data structures
Joint application development
Information Technology concepts
Relevant design tools
Multiple IT products

Disclaimer

Preference will be given to candidates from the underrepresented groups

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566

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Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566