Role Description:
As a Data Steward you will lead the team responsible for the day-to-day compliance with the Enterprise Data Risk Management Policy within their domains/business units. You and your team are responsible for identifying critical data, maintaining data definitions, classifying data, supporting data sourcing / usage requests, evaluating Data Risk Controls, and confirming Data Incidents are remediated. You will partner across various business units, technology teams, and product/platform teams to define and implement the data governance strategy, monitor and manage data risks, resolve data/platform issues, and drive consistency, usability, and governance of specific product data across the organization.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Advance the established data governance principles, policies, and programs for stewardship, advocacy and custodianship of data
- Manage all Data Risks for the business unit, in coordination with relevant supporting roles, as described in the Enterprise Data Risk Management Policy
- Understanding, complying, and executing their role and responsibilities as defined under the Enterprise Data Risk Management Policy
- Establishing, maintaining, and testing the effectiveness of controls to manage data risk within the established Data Risk Appetite limits for their Business Unit
- Facilitate Data Incident capture and coordination by planning Data Incident remediation activities, monitoring Data Incident status for reporting, and support testing and validation
- Coordinate with Business Units and other Business Unit Data Offices to ensure System level Lineage is documented completely and accurately
- Collaborate with data owners and users to modify or implement new repeatable and reliable business processes to implement truly effective data management
- Partner with Third-Party Risk Management to monitor and validate that Third Parties adhere to Enterprise Data Risk Management requirements
- Harmonize key policies and guidelines (e.g. Data Quality, Data Definition, Data Creation, Data Sharing, Data Usage policies) with the processes necessary to carry out those policies, in collaboration with multi-functional partners
- Develop and produce key metrics scorecards and program status communications for the full suite of teams within Data Office
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of direct work experience in large scale/enterprise data projects, with at least 4 years of direct experience relating to creation and execution of formal data governance and/or data management programs
- Consistent record of understanding business challenges and strategies and connecting those to data and capabilities
- Strong working knowledge of current and upcoming data governance, data management and data product techniques and trends, with a point of view on the evolving concepts and standard methodologies
- Senior level program management experience, with partners across a diverse, global set of business units
- Demonstrable experience of driving meaningful improvements in business value through data management and strategy
- Ability to work with white space to design and complete solutions to solve sophisticated challenges.
- High-caliber communication skills, both in terms of preparing and delivering a strategic vision and updates to large groups and senior leader
- Ability to put enterprise thinking first, connect the role s agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders
- Demonstrated learning agility, ability to make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity
- Eagerness to test, learn, fail and improve is crucial
- Must have a positive, collaborative leadership style with colleague and customer first attitude
Incident management and reporting, risk/data risk management, data architecture, data breach management, data classification and handling, data quality monitoring and improvement, and data governance/compliance management experience preferred
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