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.

• Serve as a subject matter expert on data and metrics available within the H-E-B Data Warehouse & Datalake to enable business, analytical, and data science use cases.
• Promote awareness and educate others on best practices, data policies, standards, metadata, lineage, cataloging, quality, lifecycle, and data modeling.
• Create, maintain, and manage metadata. Ensure data assets are defined, catalogued, discoverable, and 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 to drive 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) and 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 aligned with data governance objectives while maintaining legal and compliance regulations (e.g., PII, HIPAA, PCI, TDPSA).
• Act as a thought leader and mentor team members.

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years of experience in data stewardship, data management, data governance, business intelligence, or a related field.
• Strong experience in data governance principles and practices; proficiency in SQL for data querying and analysis.
• Knowledge of project‑management methodologies.
• 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 (PII, HIPAA, PCI, etc.).
• 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 calmly work under pressure.
• Physical demands: work collaboratively in a fast‑paced, deadline‑driven environment, including extended hours.

Work collaboratively in a fast‑paced, deadline‑driven environment. Work extended hours. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.