Data Governance Specialist

As a Data Quality professional, your role involves defining and measuring data quality metrics to ensure accuracy, completeness, validity, consistency, timeliness, and reliability. You will continuously monitor and remediate data quality issues by conducting audits, root cause analysis, and implementing preventive measures. Additionally, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining comprehensive data profiles to understand data characteristics, creating validation rules for incoming data, and designing data cleansing processes to correct errors and inconsistencies. Your focus will be on enhancing overall data quality and reliability through these processes. In terms of Data Governance, you will establish a governance framework to enforce data governance practices, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and corporate policies. This includes developing and maintaining a metadata repository to document data definitions, lineage, and usage, as well as collaborating with business users to understand data needs and requirements. Furthermore, you will continuously seek opportunities for process improvement in data governance and quality management. Understanding user roles and access requirements for systems is crucial for implementing similar protections in analytical solutions, including establishing row-level security to ensure data access is restricted to authorized users. To drive continuous improvement, you will define naming conventions for business-friendly table and column names, create synonyms to simplify data access, and establish KPIs for tracking data governance and quality efforts. Regular reporting to stakeholders will be essential to demonstrate the value of data governance initiatives. Lastly, you will establish a feedback loop where users can report data quality issues and suggest improvements, fostering a culture of continuous improvement in data quality and governance processes.,