Data Catalogue Lead

About the Role

NESO is seeking a highly skilled, passionate and experienced Data Catalogue Lead. This exciting opportunity will allow the successful candidate to own and manage Data Catalogue development and implementation across our organisation and ensure compliance with Data Best Practice guidance and internal Data Policies. Data Catalogue Lead will engage with varying stakeholders across Digital, Data and Technology Directorate (Data Architects, Data Control Managers and Lead Data Stewards, Product Team) and Data Owners to identify and document in collaboration with Data Users NESO’s Data Assets.

The ambition of NESO is to deliver a centralised, searchable inventory of NESO Data Assets to provide to current and potential Data Users visibility and transparency on Data Assets available in the organisation for reporting and analytics, in line with architectural view of the Data and systems and business processes across NESO. Data Catalogue Lead is expected to provide subject matter expertise in relation to metadata capture, work closely with Data Catalogue Product Owner to support functional and non-functional requirements gathering for Enterprise Data Catalogue tool and evolve the Data Catalogue as an effective control against Data Risks, ensuring the cataloguing process, business procedure and documentation is fit for purpose.

The successful candidate will require a strong combination of data management experience and depth (specifically in metadata management), strong team collaboration skills, and relationship management with the ability to work with and influence stakeholders in achieving strategic priorities.

This is a unique opportunity to be part of a company with a vision to be a digital leader in the industry and be a key contributor to the delivery of NESO’s Data & Analytics strategy. The role will be based in Warwick, and we continue to offer hybrid working with the expectation of at least 2 days per week in the office.

It may require travel to NESO’s other offices in Wokingham, London, and Glasgow as needed.

• Responsible for ongoing management of Data Catalogue – liaising with Data Stewards, Data Control Managers, Architects, Security, Data Engineers and Product Owner to ensure alignment between business metadata, including the Data Ownership and Stewardship information and technical metadata alignment with key architecture artefacts (conceptual and logical entity models, metadata model), evolve the Data Catalogue and appropriate metadata definitions and support configuration of the data catalogue in the enterprise data governance tool.
• Accountable for Data Dictionary and Business Glossary management – lead the work on consolidation of Data Dictionary and liaise with key stakeholders to define key standard terms required to describe the NESO Data Assets.
• Define approach and deliverables required for accompanying Business Glossary and other Supporting Information (as per Ofgem’s Data Best Practice) to ensure the information in the Data Catalogue is transparent and understandable for current and potential Data Users.
• Accountable for applying data governance frameworks, including GDPR compliance and Ofgem Data Best Practice to the Data Catalogue and acting as a subject matter expert and support to Data Stewards and Data Owners regarding all queries and instructions for populating Data Catalogue.
• Responsible for collection and categorisation of functional and non-functional requirements for Data Catalogue digital tool in collaboration with Data Catalogue Product Owner.
• Data Catalogue is defined as one of key controls in NESO’s Risk Register, therefore the Role Holder will be accountable for ensuring the required documentation (Process Guide, Standard Operating Procedure, Roles and Responsibilities) is up-to-date and correctly reflects enterprise data ambition, including a well-defined process for effective Data Catalogue control, Data Catalogue maturity roadmap and any required improvements.

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