Data Steward-Data Solutions; San Antonio, Austin and Dallas

Responsibilities

We're seeking a seasoned professional to join our Data Governance team. This role focuses on implementing core governance practices—data stewardship, quality, security, metadata, lifecycle, and compliance. The ideal candidate excels at understanding data, gathering requirements, profiling and analyzing datasets, and collaborating across business and technical teams to drive clarity and consistency in data usage.

Once you're eligible, you'll become an Owner in the company. We’re looking for commitment, hard work, and a focus on quality and customer service. “Partner‑owned” means our most important resources—people—drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H‑E‑B The Greatest Omnichannel Retailing Company.

• Heart for people… interpersonal skills?
• Head for business… knowledge to identify / document functional and non‑functional requirements?
• Passion for results… self‑directed?

• 5+ years of experience
• Strong Excel, SQL, and analytical skills
• Knowledge of project management methodologies

• Serve as a subject matter expert on data and metrics available within the H‑E‑B Data Warehouse & Datalake for respective domains to enable business, analytical, and data science use cases.
• Promote awareness and educate others on best practices, data policies, standards on metadata, lineage, cataloging, quality, lifecycle, and data modeling.
• Create, maintain, and manage metadata. Ensure data assets are defined, catalogued, discoverable, and that source lineage is documented.
• Implement and enforce data governance policies and procedures, ensuring data is used responsibly and in compliance with regulations.
• Implement and manage internal and external (3rd‑party) access controls for data through standardizing security patterns, identifying anomalies, creating new policies, creating data access rules, auditing, monitoring, and resolving issues.
• Proactively analyze data for the team, department, and/or yourself, investigating, and communicating which areas need improvement driving a better data governance framework.
• Define and maintain data quality requirements and business rules for assigned data attributes.
• Assist with the creation of critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), build dashboards that highlight goals and performance around objectives.
• Collaborate with Security, Compliance, Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Analyst, and Data Infrastructure leaders as key stakeholders/customers, providing insight, recommendations, and solutions that align with data governance objectives while maintaining legal and compliance regulations (such as PII, HIPAA, PCI, TDPSA).

• 5 years of experience in data stewardship, data management, data governance, business intelligence, or related field.
• Proficiency in SQL for data querying and analysis.
• Strong experience in data governance principles and practices.
• Experience with Data Catalog, Lineage, Metadata, Security and Quality tools.
• Ability to gather, analyze, and document business requirements.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for stakeholder engagement.
• Strong problem‑solving and critical‑thinking abilities.
• Knowledge of regulatory compliance related to data management.
• Experience with business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).
• Familiarity with cloud‑based data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, or Big Query).
• Ability to deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete information.
• Ability to act as a thought leader and mentor team members.
• Ability / willingness to learn new technologies as they emerge.
• Ability to calmly work under pressure.

• Work collaboratively in a fast‑paced, deadline‑driven environment.
• Work extended hours.

Last revised: 11/1/2024