Data Steward Job Description
Data steward
provides guidance and support for stakeholders to improve their data literacy and advocate the adoption of data management and data governance best practices.
Data Steward Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective data steward job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included data steward job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Drive continuous improvement efforts, monitor ongoing results, define process areas for review, and conduct benchmarking activities to ensure best in class results for data management best practices
Assists the Director – IMSS Data Management in the development of business-oriented training materials for data owners and key constituents
Consults with IMSS project oversight committee LOB and assigned strategic projects to effectively navigate data governance at FTI - providing education, support and escalation management
Organizes the function and process of data management within the organization
Responsible for adherence to standards and controls, data quality, problem management, and change management requests
Work with Site Data Stewards to establish synergies, standardization & best practices
Regularly review, measure and report on manufacturing master data quality
Ensure that customer and user date is accurate and up-to-date
Ensure that user requests are triaged appropriately
Ensure changes are documented and processed in a timely fashion
Data Steward Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Data Steward
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: LOB, CDE, CDO, TQM, LSS, CISA, CISSP, CDMP, PMP, CISM
Education for Data Steward
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the data steward job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Education, Information Technology, Finance, Technical, Science, Statistics, Management
Skills for Data Steward
Desired skills for data steward include:
Excel
Data models
Key database concepts
Relationships between different types of data
Data management
Databases
Practices
Data governance
Data quality
SQL
Desired experience for data steward includes:
Ability to build strong relationships with peers and leaders by building trust and credibility
Travel to the US required, upon hire and potentially thereafter, for training and collaboration with respective business domain
Ability to work during IST nighttime hours (potentially up to 12am) in order to participate and facilitate meetings with peers in the US
This position exists to provide thought leadership, strategic direction and execution in the development of a common data sourcing strategy for data that Group Risk Management requires to execute on its mandate
The comprehensiveness, quality and integrity of data coming into risk systems, underpins all of our risk activities, risk reporting and regulatory compliance
Ability to apply and coach the principles of operational excellence, development of problem statements and action plans, value stream mapping, project planning and systematic problem solving
Data Steward Examples
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Data Steward Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of data steward. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for data steward
- Document and define Data Quality definitions
- Collate information for Data Quality Assessments
- Key contact for Enterprise Risk management and tracking resolution of outstanding Risk Items within the Risk Group, data management, business process management, compliance management and steward management
- Working with a Data Protection Officer to champion best practice in data management, governance and quality and make sure we have appropriate safeguards in place
- Understands and communicates impacts of data components across all systems
- Communicates and raises awareness, across business unit
- Communicates with Global Sales Teams to obtain all required information necessary to determine and address their specific needs
- Provide clear, accurate information
- Develop valuation measures for data products and share measures across business groups
- Gathering, documenting, and reviewing requirements with various business and data partners across the organization
Qualifications for data steward
- Data marts, BI tools
- Database and Data Warehouse development
- Demonstrated ability to balance team and individual responsibilities
- Thorough knowledge of relevant computer applications and programming languages
- Ability to work in an environment that is ever changing
- Excellent collaborative skills with ability to exhibit flexibility use diplomacy to stand his / her ground when necessary
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of data steward. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for data steward
- Act as a subject matter expert for any projects/new processes that rely upon or affect data quality New Product Development
- Creating/editing requirements, data dictionaries, process maps and data lineage/mapping
- Developing an understanding of the metadata captured to manage data and participate in the creation of metatdata in the metadata tool
- Following EDG defined process to certify data
- Become a data steward in answering questions that come from end users
- Establish a standardized approach to capture and document metadata issues across all assigned data domains
- Define and roll out group data standards
- Support OUs in implementing group data standards
- Identify key metrics that will be reviewed for tracking OU compliance to central data standards and policies
- Monitor compliance to OU data standards
Qualifications for data steward
- Possibly on occasion and could require global travel
- Ensure the integrity of master data across multiple domains including daily record review of newly on boarded parties, management of hierarchy relationships, processing modification requests, bulk onboarding requests, user support
- Minimum five years of experience in managing data
- Ability to understand importance of data in the sales and reporting cycle(s)
- Ability to influence and engage
- Ability to maintain a consistent, high quality customer-focused orientation, including providing clear, accurate information
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Data Steward Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of data steward. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for data steward
- Enforcing various data rules for the market and ensures high level of data quality, integrity, availability, completeness, consistency, privacy and compliance to those rules by the data owners
- Develop KPI framework
- Coach OUs on an ongoing basis to improve adoption of data standards
- Define group data standards
- Support implementation of the group data standards in OUs
- Track key metrics related to OU compliance to central data standards and policies
- Support development of KPI framework
- Demonstrate active ownership of master data domains, processes, and procedures
- Maintain expertise on overall use of data, including the global data dictionary
- Facilitate governance over subsets of data to ensure quality across business processes through collaboration with Data Stewards
Qualifications for data steward
- Expertise in specific business domain
- Expertise in investment management domains
- Drive future initiatives focused on system enhancements that create a combination of efficiencies better overall customer experience
- Ability to work independently direct groups as needed
- Proficiency with computer systems including SAP, Microsoft Office products, Trackwise
- SAP ERP implementation & data migration experience
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of data steward. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for data steward
- Document and communicate Data Governance best practices
- Partner with project teams to integrate governance practices as part of a new project lifecycle
- Develop and implement Data Governance metrics/KPIs that monitor and measure the effectiveness of MDG
- Lead all aspects of change management and training related to the rollout and ongoing activities of the Data Governance program
- Work closely with the Master Data Governance manager to implement key system and process changes
- Effectively identify and communicate critical data issues to the Data Governance manager
- Maintain service level agreements (SLA) between Master Data Governance and internal customers/clients
- Work with cross functional business teams to understand changing business requirements and impacts to master data
- Assist with troubleshooting of data related issues
- Ensure compliance with service level agreements, documentation, and policies
Qualifications for data steward
- Strong verbal, written and presentation communication skills with ability to work across multiple organizations, particularly with Technology, Finance, Front office and Operations
- Strong business acumen & interpersonal skills to interface with senior leadership around socializing business data requirements, program roadmaps, data effort priorities etc
- Experience developing and implementing high quality data management processes, systems & policies
- Highly knowledgeable in their data domain from business, technology, and data assets perspectives (including key internal business processes and application interactions)
- Identify New opportunities for improvements
- Support ongoing projects and activities
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a data steward. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for data steward
- Develop tools to improve data gathering & communication effectiveness
- Support network of Site Data Stewards to drive understanding of master data systems and work processes
- Define, administer, document and educate on data systems, standards, and work processes
- Enhance work process designs, rule sets, and make recommendations for improvement
- Facilitate change management, issue management, and approval processes
- Facilitate client calls, in-person meetings, , to build effective relationships
- Understanding of the regulatory environment and potential future issues/risks
- Roll out of DIAC (define, assess, improve, control) views of existing data
- Ownership of data related policies
- Upward communication to relevant forums where necessary
Qualifications for data steward
- 7-10 years of experience dealing directly with large scale data management required
- Salesforce data management experience a plus
- Integrate into the SBG and assess readiness, develop plans for quick hits, and partner with the COE to develop a long-term opportunity for a robust data governance capability
- Demonstrates ability to think both strategically and tactically
- Acts as department lead on moderate-impact, moderate-complexity, and moderate-risk projects for business units or divisions
- Works on more complex, larger scale project requirement analysis under the direction of senior staff