Specialist, Data Governance
Summary
Must have a holistic perspective on the entire data governance process from both a business and technical perspective. Gather business and technical requirements and Technical implementation and support Data Governance, Metadata Management, Data Lineage and other essential Data Governance functions.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.
• Responsible for gathering business and technical requirements to capture metadata and lineage working with Business and Technical SMEs.
• Ability to communicate effectively with Business and Technical SMEs, Architects, Analysts , Developers and other IT and business teams.
• Develop Metadata and Data Lineage Solutions for multiple data sources across On Prem and Cloud environments including but not limited to Databases, Flat Files, JSON, APIs, Kafka, ETL/BI Tools etc.
• Create, develop, configure and execute end to end business and technical data lineage across disparate sources in accordance with the Data Governance Standards, Policies and Procedures.
• Experience working on metadata management, administration, support and ingest data management assets using extension mappings, custom data assets, metadata bridges, connectors, third party metadata bridges ensuring data lineage/ source to target data mapping.
• Perform requirements gathering, Data Analysis, Data Profiling to enable all the essential functions of the Data Governance.
• Design and implement Data Quality Dashboards for monitoring and reporting.
• Experience creating, developing and managing DG workflows using BPM processes.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
• N/A
Qualifications:
The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions. • Strong written and oral communication skills with ability to work with users, peers and management
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team to successfully execute projects.
• Highly motivated, self-starter with problem solving skills
• Ability to multitask and meet aggressive deadlines efficiently and effectively
• Extraordinary attention to detail and accuracy.
• Demonstrate ability to learn and understand business processes quickly
Technical Skills:
• Three+ years of experience with Metadata Management tools such as IBM InfoSphere Metadata Asset Manager, Open IGC/ Collibra.
• Experience with Data Governance, Data Profiling and Data Quality tools such as IBM InfoSphere Information Server Suite 11.x(Information Governance Catalog, Information Analyzer etc.)/ Collibra/ Informatica/ Talend/ SAS Dataflux.
• Experience with big data/ Hadoop environment on Amazon Web Services.
• Experience with Business Intelligence/ Reporting tools such as Cognos/ Tableau/ Business Objects.
• Proficient with SQL.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office desktop tools (Word, Excel, etc.)
• Experience with Databases (i.e. Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Amazon Redshift).
Education and/or Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science or Information Management preferred
• Three or more years of experience in data governance disciplines: metadata management; data lineage; data quality analysis; data profiling; and business intelligence.
Certificates or Licenses:
• DAMA certification preferred