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Our client in Orlando, FL is seeking a Data Governance Lead to join their growing team. The Data Governance Lead is a strategic professional who will work in collaboration with IT and functional resources to drive capabilities designed to enable data quality, master data management, and support data policies and process. This individual will be responsible for delivering strategic business objectives as defined by senior management by leveraging project management skills / approaches and engagement with business and technology stakeholders. Critical tasks include daily advisory support for our stakeholders across the firm, the development of KPIs, and evolving the standard operating procedures, processes, and associated tooling to drive adoption and enable implementation of firmwide Data Governance requirements. The ideal candidate is a total professional who leads by example and can communicate with various levels throughout the organization. The individual will have the ability to multi-task with multiple projects and can self-prioritize activities. They will be able to work with various technology stacks and learn on the fly. This contract-to-hire role will operate onsite.
Responsibilities: Master Data Management / Data Stewardship- Serve as the process owner for enterprise master data management processes
- Lead the establishment of master data management strategy, processes, and governance in support of the organization's digital transformation
- Serve as a liaison between business units, functional areas, service lines, major programs and IS to ensure that data-related business requirements for data are clearly defined, communicated and well understood, and considered as part of operational prioritization and planning
- Collaborate with functional leadership on the initiation of AP's Enterprise Data Stewardship Network. Comprised of Data Consumers, Stewards, and Owners.
- Develop & maintain inventory of the enterprise master data catalog
- Facilitate the development and implementation of data quality standards, data protection standards, and management practices across the enterprise
- Drive definition of KPIs and quality metrics and ensure compliance with data-related policies, standards, roles and responsibilities, and management practices
- Support acquisition integration initiatives through assessment of master data requirements and strategies
- Implementation: define critical data, rule definition, controls, alert thresholds and SLA's
- Understand expected data behavior of ingested data field, as well as, develop analysis and testing with automated data quality checks
- Provide the highest quality data for the users by continuously defining, developing and adhering to a data quality process from ingestion to end user workflows
- Design dashboards to monitor data quality
- Bachelor's Degree from a four-year college or university required with a major or emphasis in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or related field.
- Minimum 3-4 years of experience required with 1+ years of data governance experience plus 2-4 to four years of experience in any data field.
- Experience in designing, developing, and implementing data governance deliverables across an enterprise architecture preferred.
- Prior experience in the development of one or more of the following areas preferred: Data Governance, Data Dictionary, Metadata Repository, Business Data Analysis, and/or Structured Query Language (SQL).
- Experience in Data Governance metadata deliverables for Enterprise / Conceptual, Logical / Business, Data Process, and Physical data asset views.