Data Steward

About the role

The Data Steward is responsible for ensuring the quality, integrity, and appropriate use of data across the organization. This role plays a key part in supporting enterprise data governance initiatives by executing day-to-day stewardship activities, which may span master data, transactional data, and reference data. The Data Steward collaborates with both business and technical teams to ensure trusted and well-governed data assets are available for critical decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Review and validate enterprise data to ensure completeness, accuracy, and alignment with defined data standards
• Identify, investigate, and resolve data quality issues including duplicates, inconsistencies, and missing or invalid values
• Collaborate with business users and data analysts to refine data requirements and enforce data standards
• Participate in data quality reviews and assist with implementing corrective and preventative actions
• Manage stewardship workflows for data quality exceptions, including tasks related to matching, merging, or enrichment
• Partner with data governance council to maintain and enforce policies related to data access, lineage, classification, and quality
• Document business metadata, data definitions, and stewardship procedures
• Auxiliary in data profiling and root cause analysis across operational and analytical datasets
• Use tools such as Excel, SQL, and MDM or data quality platforms (e.g., Reltio) to monitor and manage data quality
• Provide support for data audits, regulatory reporting, or operational processes dependent on high-quality data
• Communicate with cross-functional stakeholders to resolve data issues and gather feedback
• Stay current on data governance and stewardship best practices, especially in regulated industries such as healthcare
• Perform other related duties as assigned by management

Qualifications

• Education: 5+ years of relevant experience with enterprise data, assessing data quality, and collaborating with business users on data workflows
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Health Informatics, or a related field; or equivalent work experience
• Technical Skills: Familiarity with data quality, stewardship, or MDM tools (e.g., Reltio, Informatica, Talend)
• Basic understanding of data matching, normalization, and cleansing processes
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel; working knowledge of SQL or business intelligence tools is a plus

Other Skills

• Strong attention to detail and a process-oriented mindset
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to interpret business requirements and translate them into data rules or checks
• Comfortable collaborating across departments in a dynamic environment