Data Governance Senior Associate

Crowe - Cleveland, OH

Full-time

Cleveland, OH

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Data Governance Steward (Data Governance Specialist) at Crowe plays a crucial role in representing the data interests of the Data Governance Team, leadership, and stakeholders. This position is responsible for ensuring adherence to data governance policies, processes, and procedures. The Data Governance Steward collaborates with other Business Data Stewards and the Data Governance team to make informed data governance decisions and effectively incorporate these decisions into project plans. This role requires the creation of models, crosswalks, and mappings that comply with metadata standards, as well as the communication of data lineage, definitions, and other metadata to the Data Governance team and relevant stakeholders. In addition to advocating for consistency in data usage and sharing best practices, the Data Governance Steward is tasked with defining and validating data quality rules, contributing to reference data and master data initiatives, and monitoring data quality metrics. This position also involves partnering with Privacy and Security teams to ensure that Data Governance policies and procedures are aligned with organizational standards. The Data Governance Steward must possess a strong understanding of data governance tools, particularly Informatica, and be able to execute various tasks related to data governance effectively. The role requires a proactive approach to identifying data quality issues through data profiling and working with leadership to establish acceptable levels of data quality. The Data Governance Steward will also conduct root cause analyses and submit change requests for issue remediation as necessary. Overall, this position is integral to maintaining the integrity and usability of business data, ensuring that data governance practices are upheld across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Represent the data interests of assigned business area leadership and stakeholders and the data governance program.
• Ensure that data decisions and remediations are effectively communicated to business users and assess the impacts of these decisions on their work.
• Ensure adherence to data governance policies, processes, and procedures.
• Collaborate with other Business Data Stewards and the Data Governance team to make data governance decisions and incorporate them into project plans.
• Create models, crosswalks, and mappings in compliance with metadata standards and other best practices.
• Ensure proper documentation of data lineage and communicate it to the Data Governance team and other stakeholders.
• Advocate for consistency of data usage and sharing best practices.
• Work with business stakeholders to define appropriate capture, usage, and data quality business rules for business data elements.
• Maintain the names, descriptions, and data definitions of key business data elements.
• Conduct data profiling to identify quality issues and work with leadership to define acceptable levels of data quality.
• Define and validate data quality rules to ensure usability for business purposes.
• Conduct root cause analyses and submit change requests for issue remediation when needed.
• Contribute to reference data efforts by registering value lists for ingestion into the Master Data Management (MDM) system.
• Contribute to master data efforts by registering key business data elements and collaborating on data quality improvement efforts, such as profiling, root cause analysis, and issue remediation.
• Monitor data quality metrics and define improvement opportunities.
• Partner with Privacy and Security teams to align Data Governance policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Experience with Data Governance Tools - Informatica preferred, other tools are a plus.
• Experience with other BI tools is a plus (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Cognos Analytics).
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.