Data Governance Specialist

About the Role

As a Data Governance Specialist, you must be able to manage organization-wide data governance activities and will be responsible for improving the quality and managing the protection of sensitive data and information assets. You will be responsible for preparing a Data Catalog strategy to build out a catalog with data and BI objects and onboard a user base to support the curation of metadata, lineage, and documentation for enabling seamless data discovery at an enterprise level, thereby streamlining data intake, and reducing data duplication throughout the organization. You must be result-oriented, self-motivated and can thrive in a fast-paced environment. This role requires you to serve as a point of escalation for governance, data quality and protection issues and will work closely with Business and Functional area leadership to improve the quality and value of core data assets, respond to regulatory protection requirements as well as support the strategic requirements of the department.

Responsibilities

• Design the roadmap for data governance, closely working directly with client teams.
• Hand hold client stakeholders through the governance journey, build a team and ensure implementation is managed smoothly.
• Responsible for the implementation and oversight of the project's data management goals, standards, practices, process, and technologies.
• Establish data connections for relevant schemas, defining data steward's role & responsibilities for the scope of the data catalog.
• Define roles and responsibilities related to data governance and ensure clear accountability for stewardship of the company's principal information assets.
• Conduct a data domain team assessment, discover the availability & completeness of each team's metadata, and develop a process for working with and onboarding data domain teams to properly onboard the data catalog.
• Be the point of contact for Data Governance queries, including escalation point for client concerns.
• Coordinate the resolution of data integrity gaps by working with the business owners and IT.
• Work in an agile environment with an iterative approach to development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's and/or master's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• Total 8+ years of IT experience and 5+ years' experience in Data Cataloging & Data Governance projects.
• Programming skills sufficient to write SQL queries to validate test results in DW database.
• Proficient in SQL, Python, with strong understanding of databases and data structures.
• Application programming interface (API) development skills, essential in developing & running API scripts across multiple devices, databases, and servers, working with REST, and open API technologies.
• Proficient in working with Enterprise Data Catalog software like Alation, Collibra, etc.
• Experience in metadata management - Business Glossary, Lineage, data dictionaries, ETL is essential.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to set priorities and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work independently and productively under pressure.
• Strong organizational skills and decision-making ability.

Skills

• Data Governance
• Data Cataloging
• SQL
• Python
• API Development (REST, open API)
• Enterprise Data Catalog (Alation, Collibra)
• Metadata Management
• Business Glossary & Lineage
• Data Dictionaries & ETL
• Dashboarding tools (Power BI, Tableau) - plus