How Will Your Role Impact First Command?

The role of the Data Steward provides day to day expertise and coordination required in defining the data we need to operate as well as the business rules that define data quality.  As part of the Enterprise Data & Analytics Team, the Data Stewards will have the opportunity to influence the data culture at First Command, driving stewardship & quality engineering behaviors.  This role reports into the Director, Data Management.

The Data Stewards will use our business intelligence platform, industry best practices for data governance, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills to partner with the First Command lines of business to rationalize data needs that are critical to our path to business agility. 

The ideal candidate is outcome-focused and has a collaborative style that fosters teamwork. They will be required to work across multiple groups and initiatives to establish alignment. 

What Will You Be Doing?

·       Champion a business-driven approach to Data Governance by collaborating with business stakeholders to develop an understanding of their critical data elements, reports, and KPIs;

·       Establish technical data stewardship by defining the technical assets critical to our business processes, establish lineage, and define workflows to manage our data;

·       Assess data quality baselines and manage a data quality action plan to remediate issues with our critical data elements;

·       Integrate our core systems with our governance & quality tools to catalog & profile data;

·       Define success measures & operational metrics to uncover data quality opportunities & communicate progress;

·       Facilitate training & adoption activities for business intelligence solutions to deliver business value to business stewards & leadership team;

·       Fostering stewardship of data in our business and technology teams;

·       Provide thought leadership for our Agile Release Trains & Product Management team to design agile products with built-in data quality & stewardship.

What Skills/Qualifications Do You Need?

Education

·       BA required or equivalent experience may be considered; MBA or MS or equivalent a plus.

Required Qualifications

·       7+ years of applied experience in Data Governance or comparable positions that handle data definitions, requirements gathering and fostering business partner relationships

·       Strong understanding of Data Governance and Data Quality

·       Strong understanding of industry best practices for Data Governance & familiarity with data privacy

·       Strong understanding of methods to document data mapping and data lineage

·       Strong understanding in metadata management and data quality methodology

·       Strong data analysis skills with proficiency in SQL with knowledge of T-SQL and PL/SQL

·       Applied experience with cloud data solutions; Microsoft Azure a plus

·       Strong understanding of data management and data architecture practices

·       Applied experience with Data Governance and Quality tools (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Purview, Talend)

·       Applied experience with Agile frameworks; SAFe, KANBAN or SCRUM a plus

·       Applied experience documenting business definitions of technical assets and how data is organized within an organization

·       Applied experience transforming manual processes to industry standards

·       Comfort with ambiguity and proven ability to generate innovative solutions

·       Ability to be a self-starter and take initiative to achieve tangible results from a conceptual strategy

Preferred Qualifications

·       Financial services industry experience or other highly regulated industry experience a plus

·       Certifications related to Data Governance, Microsoft Azure, and/or Agile frameworks a plus

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