Lead Data Steward
Employment Information
Job Description
Lead Data Steward at Nelnet focusing on data governance practices. Collaborating across teams to ensure data is accessible, trustworthy, and secure while improving data management strategies.
Responsibilities:
- Play a leading role in the execution of data governance strategies.
- Lead the identification of critical data management issues.
- Conduct analysis and research data management issues to identify core challenges and determine root cause(s).
- Collaborate to identify trends, draw informed conclusions, and recommend remediation actions based on the analysis.
- Articulate data management challenges into actionable remediation tasks and define project scopes and objectives.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, road maps and documentation to monitor and report progress.
- Assist with task prioritization to effectively drive throughput and ensure successful delivery.
- Maintain and continuously develop a data catalog to further enrich the documentation and context for our data assets.
- Provide recommendations for new or improved data standards, business rules and policies, as well as assist in developing the program road map.
- Establish and monitor key data management and governance metrics for critical data.
- Advise on various projects and initiatives ensuring changes, impacting the quality or availability of data, are identified and managed to ensure adherence with standards.
- Drive organizational acceptance of data and process standards, policies, and definitions for critical / related enterprise data.
- Build strong relationships and work collaboratively to translate data challenges into engineering requirements.
- Maintain Data Steward Council as a working group to communicate strategic initiatives and maintain consistency of critical enterprise, operational and analytical data.
- Promote data governance across the organization by facilitating presentations and workshops, as well as advising relevant stakeholders on data governance related matters with a focus on business use of data.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Technology or Computer Science, preferred
- Certification(s) or designation(s) in data governance or data management disciplines, preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in data management disciplines, or equivalent combination of education & experience.
- Experience developing and maintaining a data catalog, a plus.
- Experience leading collaboration efforts to improve production or master data, product information management, product documentation, or similar.
Benefits:
- medical
- dental
- vision
- HSA and FSA
- generous earned time off
- 401K/student loan repayment
- life insurance & AD&D insurance
- employee assistance program
- employee stock purchase program
- tuition reimbursement
- performance-based incentive pay
- short- and long-term disability
- robust wellness program
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