Data Governance Analyst

This role is strategically important and must form excellent working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders across business lines.

Duties include the following:

• Drive development, deployment and ongoing improvements to data management standards, policies, and processes, in order to enhance the quality, completeness and availability of the organization’s data.
• Work with the Data Governance Council and Data Stewards across business units to ensure compliance with related standards, policies, roles and responsibilities.
• Oversee and orchestrate Data Quality Management processes across the group
• Contribute to the delivery, management and maintenance of Data Lineage models and Enterprise Data Catalogue
• Help drive greater understanding and appreciation of best practice in data management and usage across the organization through structured training and other activities
• Assisting with the mobilization and management of the Enterprise Data Stewardship community
• Contribute to the evolution of client’s enterprise messaging models and schemas and provide guidance to development teams on use of schemas
• Help drive improvements in the maturity of the firm’s data via master data management initiatives

Knowledge

• Deep understanding of current best data management & governance frameworks, practices & tooling
• Familiar with current data modelling techniques, including conceptual, logical and physical data models
• Familiar with financial messaging protocols e.g. FIX, FpML, etc.
• Understand the fundamentals of data and analytics processes and procedures, with a strong understanding of complex data lineage in databases, schemas, tables, columns.
• Nice to have: good understanding of wholesale Financial Services, across one or more asset classes e.g. Interest Rate Derivatives, Commodities, Commodity Derivatives, Bonds, Credit, Equities etc.
• Nice to have: good understanding of all general and Financial Services specific legislation and regulation pertaining to data including GDPR, MiFID, REMITetc.

Experience

• 2+ years hands on experience as a data (governance) analyst or business analyst with a specific focus on data - ideally working within an Agile delivery environment
• 2+ years hands on experience working with a business data catalogue, such as Colibra, Informatica, Alation etc.
• Strong understanding – ideally with certification – and practical experience with one or more data management frameworks – e.g. DAMA DCAM, CDMC etc.
• Previous experience implementing Data Management & Governance processes and standards into strategic projects and delivering enterprise Data Quality initiatives
• Nice to have: good knowledge of Cloud Data Architectures E.g. Azure data Factory, AWS lake Formation etc.

Skills

• Strong analytical and data governance skills
• Financial markets background – ideally with practical experience working with at least 1 asset class e.g. equities, fixed income etc.
• Competent in SQL, ideally with some level of coding/scripting skills such as Python etc.
• Ability to take ownership of problems and requests as well as the ability to work in a fast-paced team
• Confident communicator with experience in working closely with stakeholders of all levels including the ability to advise, train and support
• Ability to use own initiative, with strong personal organisation skills to work to tight deadlines

MSBC Group