What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Steward position at Royal & Ross?
Our client is looking for an advance Data Steward for their team.
This is a full time position, located in Houston, onsite M-F, no sponorship at this time.
Job Description
- Understand broadly the data use cases within our business and liaise with development teams and application owners to ensure data discovery, access and management features are meeting their evolving needs
- Develop and execute data quality processes to ensure data being consumed by our business can be trusted and is accurate
- Continually curate our data catalogue including performing validation of metadata, data tagging and inactivation of obsolete data
- Work directly with business stakeholders to develop data naming rules that align with their view and allow for easy identification
- Lead product onboardings including cataloguing of new data elements in collaboration with our data acquisition technical team
- Develop policies and procedures to ensure appropriate access rules are in place and access groups are defined and maintained
- Ensure that data is properly classified as restricted, regulated or public as it relates to the distribution of the data in accordance with data provider contracts
- Participate in the development of data polices including data retention, data privacy, data use and regulations
- Provide guidance, testing support and validation as data assets, dashboards and reports are built for their area to ensure that they conform to business processes
Qualifications
- Exposure to commodities trading environment including relevant market/fundamental data sources, types and concepts
- 2 years of basic Python scripting or development expertise
- 2 years of SQL experience and awareness of database technologies like Oracle RDBM, SQL Server or PostreSQL
- Demonstrated technical writing expertise in a professional environment including business analysis and application usage documentation
- Effective communication skills with the ability to communicate with technical and business stakeholders
- Business/Finance/MIS or related relevant degree
Additional Information
Personal Characteristics
- Team player
- Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage changing priorities
- Able to work in a high-pressure environment with changing priorities
- Proactive and customer focused, “make it work” mentality
- Highly responsive, energetic and enthusiastic
- Resourceful and able to think creatively and adapt
