Lead Data Steward Job - United States (Interon IT)Description
Key Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise data stewardship activities across business and technology teams.
- Analyze complex data issues and assess their operational, business, compliance, and risk impacts.
- Recommend solutions to improve data quality, consistency, availability, and usability.
- Define and maintain business metadata, technical metadata, data definitions, and data ownership information.
- Develop and maintain end-to-end data lineage across source systems, data platforms, reports, and downstream applications.
- Partner with data owners, data custodians, engineers, analysts, and governance teams to resolve data-related issues.
- Support the development and enforcement of data governance policies, standards, and procedures.
- Establish data quality rules, controls, metrics, and monitoring processes.
- Facilitate root-cause analysis and remediation of data quality issues.
- Document critical data elements, business terms, data classifications, and ownership responsibilities.
- Promote data governance and stewardship best practices across the enterprise.
- Support data cataloging, metadata repositories, and governance platform adoption.
- Use SQL to perform data validation, profiling, reconciliation, and issue analysis.
- Prepare governance reports, dashboards, and documentation for leadership and stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in data stewardship, data governance, data management, or business data analysis.
- Advanced experience with data lineage.
- Advanced experience with metadata management.
- Intermediate experience with data quality management.
- Intermediate business analysis experience within AI, analytics, or data environments.
- Intermediate SQL skills for data analysis and validation.
- Strong understanding of enterprise data governance frameworks and stewardship operating models.
- Experience defining business terms, data standards, critical data elements, and ownership models.
- Ability to communicate complex data issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, documentation, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with data catalogs or governance tools such as Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Atlan, or similar platforms.
- Experience supporting AI, machine learning, analytics, or regulatory data initiatives.
- Familiarity with privacy, compliance, and data-risk management practices.
- Experience operating in a large enterprise environment
Education
Bachelor's degree