Enterprise Data Steward

Overview

Pen Fed is hiring a (Hybrid) Enterprise Data Steward at our Tysons, Virginia or San Antonio, Texas location. The primary purpose of this job is to drive adoption of Pen Fed’s Enterprise Data Governance procedures by working with Business Data Stewards. The position is part of the hub for the organization, with spokes into the various Business Units. This role will enable building Enterprise Business Glossary that is normalized and useful, help build common business data taxonomy, guide business data stewards in building the data quality monitoring projects, track and co‑ordinate resolution of enterprise level data quality issues.

The position will also help manage the critical data asset and elements repository in alignment with industry standard finance data model.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all‑inclusive list of job duties and the position will perform other duties as assigned.

• Execute on established multi‑tiered Data Governance operating model, engaging lines of business leadership, data owners, data stewards and key enterprise functions.
• Recommend areas of improvement to existing operational processes to ensure data governance processes run efficiently.
• Be the change agent to enable user adoption of Data Governance processes, procedures, controls.
• Manage Enterprise Data Quality issues, in partnership with Business Data Stewards.
• Champion defining data quality expectations, identification of data quality gaps, completion of root cause analysis and business impact assessment, prioritization and tracking of data quality remediation efforts, oversee remediation plans.
• Identification and management of critical data elements inventory; including its alignment with industry standard finance data models.
• Standardize documentation of business glossary, data dictionaries, relationships, mappings, and data flows and data lineage.
• Advise business data stewards in their adherence to Data Retention & Archival, Sensitive Data Handling, Data Sharing, 3rd Party Data Management processed and procedures.
• Define acceptable usage of data and drive consistency in interpretation and usage of data.
• Lead benchmarking of the Pen Fed’s data governance program maturity against the industry standard models.

Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems or business management required, Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of 12 years of experience in data governance and management.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in data stewardship, preferably in retaining banking institution.
• Experience writing and maintaining data governance processes, standards, best practices.
• Experience working with internal stakeholders in running a successful data governance program.
• Extensive experience of working on any Data Governance and Management industry solution, preferably Ataccama.
• Technical background to work effectively with Data Platform and Data Engineering teams to enhance and mature the Data Governance toolkit.
• Strong knowledge of data management concepts including metadata, data quality, data lineage, data archival, data retention, data sharing, sensitive data handling.
• Must have strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to work with all management levels, especially the ability to message in a concise and understandable way.
• Must have experience in creating processes, procedures, job aids for enterprise rollout.
• Experience with risk and control frameworks.
• Experience of working with internal audit and external auditors.
• Knowledge and experience of working in Reference/Master Data management efforts will be an added advantage.

This position will not supervise employees.

• Certification in any Data Governance tool is preferred.
• CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional) certification is preferred.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an indoor office setting with moderate noise.

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