Goldman Sachs - Salt Lake City, UT

posted 5 months ago

Full-time - Senior
Salt Lake City, UT
Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don't just make things - we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets. The Data Governance team is a central, firmwide team that is responsible for defining and delivering data governance across the firm. We are a global team that works with divisional stakeholders to provide transparency into where data enters the firm, how it is transformed, reported, classified, and what data quality controls exist for critical datasets. Our internal clients use this information to gain insights, aiming to eliminate duplication, improve data quality, respond faster to new business opportunities, and meet regulatory requirements. Our users need to search and visualize the firm's data flows. The firm is investing significantly to enhance data quality across the firm, to enable increased data commercialization, improve client experience, and ensure high quality of data sent to other external and internal parties. We have a multi-year book of work, sponsored by the Board. This function is a key component of these deliverables. As a Data Governance Specialist, you will help promote the data governance framework and drive adoption across all of the firm's divisions. You will partner with Divisional Data Offices to help them implement the policies and procedures for Data Governance, participate in working groups to improve data quality and ease of access to information, and provide guidance and training on how to plan implementation of requirements set forth by the policy. You will work with the technical team responsible for developing the data governance platform and tool set, monitor the compliance and progress of each division, and ensure that the data governance program goals are accomplished. You will provide thought leadership to further develop processes and firmwide roles and responsibilities to help the firm meet the expectations of its data governance policy. As a member of the team, you will gain satisfaction through adding value and contributing to the team's initiatives, working with data consumers and producers to negotiate ownership of data, creating lineage graphs to show how data moves through the organization, and developing communication and reference materials that enable data consumers and producers to implement the data governance policy and standard.

Responsibilities

  • Help promote the data governance framework and drive adoption across all of the firm's divisions
  • Partner with Divisional Data Offices to help them implement the policies and procedures for Data Governance
  • Participate in working groups to improve data quality and ease of access to information
  • Provide guidance and training on how to plan implementation of requirements set forth by the policy
  • Work with the technical team responsible for developing the data governance platform and tool set
  • Monitor the compliance and progress of each division, ensuring data governance program goals are accomplished
  • Provide thought leadership to further develop processes and firmwide roles and responsibilities to meet data governance policy expectations
  • Work with data consumers and producers to negotiate ownership of data
  • Create lineage graphs to show how data moves from top of the flow to lower down the flow
  • Develop communication and reference materials that enable data consumers and producers to implement the data governance policy and standard
  • Define and create appropriate data validation controls
  • Provide data quality analytics to partner with data consumers and producers to drive remediation effort
  • Partner with users and provide feedback on the strategic tooling to engineering teams for business use cases
  • Communicate progress to senior stakeholders and within the team

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Exposure to or knowledge of data warehousing, and the development of physical and logical models
  • Experience working with stakeholders on projects to develop strategies and solutions, ideally related to data
  • Experience working with a business team to develop functional requirements and translating those into technical requirements
  • Ability to work in a collaborative manner with stakeholders and drive consensus
  • Proficient with spreadsheet/presentation/dashboard tools and ability to learn quickly and adapt to new changes and new challenges
  • Effectively partner with divisions across the firm with a focus on end-client value
  • Proactive and works well in a collaborative environment
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Good attention to detail and analytical thinking

Nice-to-haves

  • Helpful to have sufficient SQL knowledge to be able to run queries and participate in data analysis
  • May have a software engineering background (not required)
  • Experience of data governance or data management
  • Experience working at a financial institution
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