Lead execution of key data governance processes including the following: critical data asset identification, data cataloging, and monitoring
Lead efforts to implement and maintain master data across the enterprise
Lead and drive the data governance and management community outreach, evangelism, and training across the Analytics CoE and enterprise as well as hosting community events on data governance related topics
Acts as a servant leader who guides the team to reach their goals
Plan capacity at a team level
Coordinates cross team dependencies
Works with Product Owners/ Program Manager to prioritize and estimate effort
Prioritizes testing within the team to ensure a high level of data and analytics quality
Understanding of performance and scalability concerns and query plan analysis
Participates in identifying new capabilities and new design patterns
Leads the team on gathering requirements for data governance initiatives and projects
Partners with the business data stewards during project delivery and on an ongoing basis
Advocate for participation from business areas in data governance activities
Designs and develops agile solutions to measure data quality and data governance effectiveness and summarizes and presents this in an effective manner to stakeholders and data governance forums
Identify, assess, monitor, document, and communicate potential quality issues in the way data is collected, stored, processed, or used
Lead problem solver for the team
Participates in architectural design discussions
Mentors less experienced Data Governance Analysts
Stay up to date on data governance trends and employ industry (and company) best practices
Be a resource to teammates and the organization as a subject matter expert in data governance and data management
Facilitate the definition of business KPIs and be a change agent where standardization needs to occur
Agent for change to improve business and IT processes
Has a strong understanding of specific areas of the business that the team supports
Enforces industry and company best practices within the team
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Data Analytics, or related field or equivalent work experience
7+ years of experience working in data management and data governance roles
Strong experience with various MDM methodologies and tooling, data catalogs, and data quality tooling with modern cloud approaches (Azure preferred)
Experience working with relational database systems
Advanced knowledge and practice of SQL
Working knowledge of data visualization tools, with preference to PowerBI
Working knowledge of data preparation and data transformation (for BI/analytics) approaches