AVP Data Product Analyst

About the role

As AVP, Data Product Analyst, you will shape LPL’s strategic data foundation for the future, connecting Business product owners with Technology delivery teams using data to power applications and experiences for Advisors and Investors.

Responsibilities

• Author both operational and analytical data quality rules for respective data and business domains.
• Document the rules and partner with technology teams and engineers to have the rules built into data pipelines, APIs, a commercial tool quality framework, etc.
• Develop data profiling, quality, and alerting capabilities leveraging database and ETL capabilities (DBT, Airflow, SQL, etc.) or commercial data management tools (Collibra, Alation, atlan, AWS Datazone, data.world, etc.).
• Develop and document standardized processes and workflows for remediating data issues by working with Relationship Management, Servicing, and Operations teams.
• Assist with data issue research, impact analysis, and fixes by partnering with support and technology teams.
• Translate business product, application and capability requirements for Advisors and Investors into data needs and solutions.
• Utilize homegrown solutions, commercial data governance tools, or Excel, to build and document data lineage views of data transformations across the data ecosystems from source to target.
• Maintain data lineage artifacts and leverage them for data research and remediation efforts.
• Work with enterprise data architects to document data flows in conceptual and reference architecture diagrams for accountable data and business domains.
• Define and configure workflows, metadata structures, data quality rules, and classification schemes based on defined requirements.
• Author and enter Feature and Story-level work in Jira for technology teams to execute against.
• Represent data and participate in QE and end-to-end testing of data products.
• Populate and enrich the business glossary or data dictionary and supporting and resolving data quality issues.
• Leverage software applications and tooling to construct, monitor, govern and maintain new data products for the company.
• Manage the data sharing and data delivery agreements as defined by the Data Design Authority, business stakeholders, data modeling and engineering teams.
• Ensure alignment of data schemas, models, contracts, and templates from ingestion to the enterprise data model to systems of record domains to consumption layers.
• Align and govern physical models to logical data models.
• Partner with the Risk organization for data archiving, retention, privacy, and data destruction policies and requirements for critical data elements.
• Business metadata management across accountable data domains and data products.
• Onboard, govern and certify new CDEs introduced into the data ecosystem.
• Perform technical traceability mapping and data lineage tracking.
• Validate and certify new data sources.
• Partner with data domain (SOR) teams and business stakeholders to author and implement data quality rules and standards.
• Operational oversight of data quality rules execution in partnership with Engineering and Operations.
• Partner with a variety of internal support and Operations teams to build data quality scorecards, data exception reports, and ultimately assist teams with data enrichment and remediation when required.
• Track data issues and risks and develop associated mitigation strategies for corresponding business domains.
• Update central metadata repository with business metadata content including business terms, definitions, classifications, and data quality rules.

  Requirements

  • Minimum of 7 years’ experience in data warehouse design, data management, data governance, business intelligence and analytics, or similar.
  • Minimum of 7 years and expert level use of reading and coding in SQL.
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience with business intelligence tools and report development in tools like Tableau, Microsoft PowerBI, Domo, Qlik, Sisense, etc.
  • Experience in individual contributor-level data management roles like data analyst, data modeler, data pipeline engineer, BI analyst, or developer.
  • Knowledge base of data governance including data quality rules coding and implementation, data catalogs, quality scorecard development, data lineage, mastering data, and reference data management.
  • Experience using (data steward) or implementing (technology) data governance tools like Collibra, AWS Datazone, Alation, atlan, data.world, etc.

  Core Competencies

  • Hands-on data analysis, source-to-target mapping, data lineage tracing, remediation, etc.
  • Experience coding or reading and understanding data transformations in pipelines.
  • Experience designing and implementing a variety of data architecture patterns.
  • Experience using and developing in a variety of RDBMS like AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, etc.

  Preferences

  • Wealth management and wealth advisory services industry experience.
  • Prior people leadership experience.
  • Prior experience in a data product management role.
  • Agile and lean delivery methods and associated tools like Confluence, Jira, etc.
  • Solid understanding of relational, star, snowflake data modeling.

  Pay Range

  $103,309.00 - $172,113.00

  Company Overview

  LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace(6), LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses. For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.