Overview:

• A Fortune 50 financial services company is seeking a highly motivated Senior Data Steward for our client in the McLean, VA area.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the operationalization of data governance for their business unit
• Participate in data strategy planning for their business unit.
• Act as a point of contact for the Business Data Owner and Technical Data Steward for governance related questions/concerns.
• Ensure all data governance workstreams are implemented for their business unit (Program management; Policies, Standards, and Procedures; Metadata Management; Data Quality; Information Lifecycle Management) to ensure a streamlined data governance model is in place.
• Engage with Change Management to conduct onboarding and training for data governance adoption in their business unit.
• Identify downstream consumers / uses of data, and act as point of contact to answer questions and address issues related to the data within their business unit.
• On behalf of Data Owner and in partnership with Information Security, approve transfers of their business unit's data.
• On behalf of Data Owner, implement governance process for accessing, classifying, and protecting data within their business unit in accordance with polices, standards, and procedures.
• May serve as a liaison as necessary with EDG&P office and Business Data Stewards in other business units to ensure consistency of data governance operationalization across all business unit.
• Provide and approve definitions, allowable values, and calculation/derivation logic for data attributes.
• Ensure business data is identified and inventoried with complete, accurate, and quality metadata.
• Work in lockstep with the Technical Data Steward to perform root cause analysis & resolve issues - act as point of resolution prior to Data Owner, EDG&P, and EDinvolvement.
• Define and monitor performance metrics, determine gaps in performance, and recommend/implement changes to improve operations related to data governance and risk mitigation.
• Proactive individual contributor and mentor to junior staff.

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years functional and technical expertise in at least 1 analytics or business intelligence application or product.
• Familiarity of Data Dictionary, Data Lineage and Data Quality.
• Experience with Data Governance.
• Experience with Data projects.
• Data Migration, Data Warehousing, Data Reporting.
• Experience with Data projects (Data Migration, Data Warehousing, Data Reporting).
• Working knowledge of: SQL, and Big Data (Data Bricks).
• Advanced understanding of business line/competitive environment.
• Strong change agent; effective communicator.
• Must have technical data knowledge, and ability to handle Technical Data Steward responsibilities when none is assigned for respective data domains.
• Experience with system administration (Azure, Microsoft and Power BI).
• Bachelor's degree in business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training, and experience