Role Overview:Serve as the technical data steward responsible for ensuring Employee Enablement Systems data is implemented, governed, and maintained in alignment with business intent and technical standards. This role acts as a technical subject matter expert for data domains, bridging business and technology requirements.
Key Responsibilities:- Act as Technical SME for Data Domains, understanding application and system impacts of data decisions.
- Evaluate and communicate downstream system dependencies, constraints, and impacts.
- Partner closely with Business Data Stewards and Data Owners to translate business data requirements into compliant technical implementations.
- Implement and enforce Data Governance policies, standards, and architectural principles across systems.
- Ensure governed data is implemented, maintained, and controlled in alignment with enterprise standards.
- Identify root causes of data quality issues across systems and integrations.
- Partner on defect resolution and provide technical evidence for closure.
- Manage Critical Data Elements (CDEs) by mapping them across source and downstream systems.
- Ensure accuracy of technical metadata and end-to-end data lineage.
- Enforce data classification, privacy, and security requirements.
- Partner with security and privacy teams to enforce data protection standards.
Required Skills:- Strong understanding of data governance frameworks, policies, and lifecycle management.
- Experience working with enterprise applications, databases, and system integrations.
- Hands-on experience with data quality monitoring, defect triage, and root cause analysis.
- Knowledge of metadata management, data lineage, and data catalog concepts.
- Familiarity with data privacy, security, and classification policies.
- Proven ability to translate business requirements into system-level data implementations.
- Strong collaboration skills across business, engineering, and governance teams.
- Strong SQL skills, including query optimization, performance tuning, and report development.
Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of experience in a similar domain.
Preferred Skills:- Experience supporting audit, regulatory, or compliance-driven data initiatives.
- Exposure to Critical Data Elements (CDE) governance frameworks.
- Experience contributing to data quality metrics, dashboards, and governance reporting.
- Familiarity with enterprise data governance platforms and tooling ecosystems.
- Prior experience participating in data governance councils or working groups.
- Experience within financial services or other regulated industries.
- Experience working with data warehousing and lake house architecture.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and associated data services.
- Experience with data cataloging, lineage automation, or metadata ingestion frameworks.
- Knowledge of data observability tools and monitoring frameworks.
- Exposure to data masking, tokenization, and sensitive data protection solutions.
- Understanding of DevOps/DataOps practices and CI/CD pipelines for data systems.
- Analytical mindset, detail-oriented, cross-functional influencer, risk-aware, structured communicator, and ownership-driven attributes.
