Data Steward

As a Data Steward, you will be responsible for assessing and monitoring the quality of data needed to support key business processes, and for the execution of process to improve that data quality to meet defined standards and drive business outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Works with Senior Data Steward and business stakeholders to define specific goals, approaches and deliverables for stewardship and quality initiatives in specific data domains
• Performs hands-on stewardship tasks to assess, cleanse, normalize and conform data to meet business requirements
• Implements data quality measurement and remediation processes in the WESCO toolset
• Proposes standards and metrics for data quality based on data analysis and requirements captured from business users
• Performs analysis of data to identify gaps in quality using defined standards
• Identifies opportunities for conformation and normalization of data values
• Creates clear and concise documentation of observations and analysis of current state data, and proposed future state
• Creates measures and metrics to show progress of solving issues through stewardship activities and execution of stewardship programs
• Defines and executes processes to monitor data governance policies and procedures to ensure data integrity and privacy, establish consistent data definitions, and monitor overall data quality

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree – Technology or Business required
• 2 years hands-on experience in data stewardship, and validating data as “fit for purpose”
• 2 years of experience in assessing data quality levels, remediating issues, and designing testing rules based on business needs
• 2 years of experience in SQL, plus one or more other data analysis methods (Python, R, Java/JQuery, Scala, etc.)
• Ability to translate broad business requirements and questions into concrete analysis and answers based on data
• 3 years of business analyst or data quality analyst experience preferred
• 3 years of experience in an enterprise data quality and catalog tool (Informatica, Collibra, Alation, etc.) preferred