Data Steward

Royal & Ross

$70K — $95K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Exposure to commodities trading environment and market data sources
  • 2+ years of basic Python scripting or development expertise
  • 2+ years of SQL experience and knowledge of database technologies like Oracle RDBM, SQL Server, or PostgreSQL
  • Demonstrated technical writing skills in a professional setting
  • Effective communication skills with both technical and business stakeholders
  • Degree in Business, Finance, MIS, or a related field

Responsibilities

  • Liaise with development teams to ensure data access and management meet business needs
  • Develop and implement data quality processes for accuracy and trustworthiness
  • Curate and validate the data catalogue, including metadata and obsolete data
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to create intuitive data naming rules
  • Lead onboarding processes for new data elements with data acquisition teams
  • Develop and maintain access rules and user groups for data management
  • Classify data as restricted, regulated, or public per relevant contracts
  • Participate in developing data policies around retention, privacy, and usage
  • Support data asset validation and reporting compliance with business processes

Benefits

  • Full-time position with an onsite work requirement in Houston, M-F
  • Collaborative work environment with a focus on team success
  • Opportunity to work closely with both technical and business stakeholders
  • Engagement in a critical role overseeing data quality and management
  • Chance to influence data usage and policies across the organization
Full Job Description
Our client is looking for an advance Data Steward for their team.

This is a full time position, located in Houston, onsite M-F, no sponorship at this time.

Job Description

  • Understand broadly the data use cases within our business and liaise with development teams and application owners to ensure data discovery, access and management features are meeting their evolving needs
  • Develop and execute data quality processes to ensure data being consumed by our business can be trusted and is accurate
  • Continually curate our data catalogue including performing validation of metadata, data tagging and inactivation of obsolete data
  • Work directly with business stakeholders to develop data naming rules that align with their view and allow for easy identification
  • Lead product onboardings including cataloguing of new data elements in collaboration with our data acquisition technical team
  • Develop policies and procedures to ensure appropriate access rules are in place and access groups are defined and maintained
  • Ensure that data is properly classified as restricted, regulated or public as it relates to the distribution of the data in accordance with data provider contracts
  • Participate in the development of data polices including data retention, data privacy, data use and regulations
  • Provide guidance, testing support and validation as data assets, dashboards and reports are built for their area to ensure that they conform to business processes


Qualifications

  • Exposure to commodities trading environment including relevant market/fundamental data sources, types and concepts
  • 2+ years of basic Python scripting or development expertise
  • 2+ years of SQL experience and awareness of database technologies like Oracle RDBM, SQL Server or PostreSQL
  • Demonstrated technical writing expertise in a professional environment including business analysis and application usage documentation
  • Effective communication skills with the ability to communicate with technical and business stakeholders
  • Business/Finance/MIS or related relevant degree


Additional Information

Personal Characteristics
  • Team player
  • Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage changing priorities
  • Able to work in a high-pressure environment with changing priorities
  • Proactive and customer focused, "make it work" mentality
  • Highly responsive, energetic and enthusiastic
  • Resourceful and able to think creatively and adapt

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