Senior Data Steward

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At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.

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Responsible for the assessment, improvement, and governance of data and ongoing fitness-for-purpose of the organization’s data assets in compliance with policy and regulatory obligations. Contribute to the development of the enterprise data governance strategy and lead initiatives across business and technical domains to accelerate speed to insights from company data assets.

• Create confidence and trust in key data assets by leading the business user community and IT through steps to map lineage, assess quality and improve accessibility of critical data.
• Identify key business data elements and their attributes including meaning, rules for use, format, and lineage.
• Act as the custodian of data assets; provide oversight of governance activities including data inventories, full lifecycle management, content management, records management, preservation, data quality, data classification, data security and access, data risk management, and data valuation.
• Participate on cross-functional business and technology teams to drive data quality, data standards, ease-of-use, and data security/privacy policy adoption.
• Assist the team and other stakeholders with complex data issues.
• Document definitions and metadata on critical fields, gather feedback and gain approval by Data Governor.
• Oversee the design and build of Semantic Data Layers / Reference data to improve ease of use and understanding of key data assets.
• Ensure data quality by designing and maintaining a vigorous Data Quality program.
• Keep abreast of global personal data and privacy legislation (proposed and effective); deliver thought leadership for responses and compliance with same.
• Mentor and help direct more junior Data Stewards and teammates.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or other quantitative discipline with a focus on data usage and critical thinking, or relevant business degree
• Five years of experience in a similar role
• Expert understanding of database management, data mining and reporting concepts
• Technical competence using SQL, big data technologies, Snowflake, and AWS
• Analytical, critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Detailed oriented and well organized

• Prior Financial Services/Insurance industry experience
• Expertise in Data Governance, Data Literacy, Master Data Management, Data Quality, Metadata Management, Data Architecture and Modeling
• Expertise in Alation
• Concise and precise communication with excellent storytelling skills

• Hybrid Office Environment (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays)
• Occasional Travel

This job description is not a contract of employment nor for any specific job responsibilities. The Company may change, add to, remove, or revoke the terms of this job description at its discretion. Managers may assign other duties and responsibilities as needed. In the event an employee or applicant requests or requires an accommodation to perform job functions, the applicable HR Business Partner should be contacted to evaluate the accommodation request.

The Salary for this position generally ranges between $90,000 - $105,000 annually. Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors including qualifications, experience, geography, work location designation (in-office, hybrid, remote) and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.

Additionally, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this…