Data Steward

Location City of London
Discipline: Technology Management
Job type: Permanent
Salary: 85k plus 20% bonus

​A Global Commercial Bank have a newly created position for a Data Steward to join their team on a permanent basis. The organisation are virtual first so requirement to go to the office is around once every 2 weeks or if you would like to go in more often that is fine too.

Data Stewards are responsible for overseeing the life cycle of a set of business data elements. Specifically, they are responsible for implementing data management policies and procedures. Data Stewards are ultimately responsible for establishing data definitions, business rules and data quality metrics. They work with business and technology teams to rollout and maintain data management and remediate data-quality issues.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Their clients are the game changers, leaders and investors who fuel the global innovation economy. They're the businesses behind the next medical breakthroughs and the visionaries whose new technologies could transform the way people live and work.

They come to the Bank for their expertise, deep network and nearly forty years of experience in the industries they serve, and to partner with diverse teams of passionate, enterprising, dedicated to an inclusive approach to helping them grow and succeed at every stage of their business.

Join them and be part of bringing their clients' world-changing ideas to life. They have the opportunity to grow and collectively make an impact by supporting the innovative clients and communities they serve. They pride themselves in having both a diverse client roster and an equally diverse and inclusive organisation. And they work diligently to encourage all with different ways of thinking, different ways of working, and especially those traditionally underrepresented in technology and financial services, to apply.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Responsible for defining key data elements (KDE’s) and identifying data assets within their own data domains.

  • Responsible for contributing to the development and maintenance of a business data dictionary that is aligned to physical data assets and the business glossary for the definition and maintenance of a group's data landscape including end-to-end data flows/transformations and data lineage.

  • Responsible for establishing data quality rules.

  • Responsible for solving data related issues and communicating resolutions with other solution domains.

  • Partners with Business & IT teams to ensure solutions adhere to the organization’s data principles and guidelines.

  • Support the development of deliverables (e.g., project plans, process documentation, roadmap), standard reporting, and tracking of performance KPI.

SKILLS:

  • Knowledge of data management principles and concepts.

  • Knowledge of how to create data definitions & standards, determine business data requirements and business rules.

  • Ability to work collaboratively with analysts, architects, modelers, business and technical teams

  • Good communication skills with both business and technical audiences

  • Subject matter knowledge of bank operations and/or financial services

  • Ability to leverage multiple tools to create and maintain necessary data stewardship outputs

EXPERIENCE:

  • Experience working within a data or reporting team as an analyst, modeler or data steward.

  • Experience creating and using data models and data definitions

  • Experience with improving data quality and resolving data deficiencies.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

BENEFITS:

  • Private Medical Insurance

  • Telemedicine

  • Health Assessments

  • Dental Insurance

  • Eye Care

  • Holidays

  • Wellness (Employee Assistance Program, Gym Subsidy, and Ride to Work Scheme)

  • Transportation

  • Group Personal Pension Scheme

  • Disability and Life Assurance

  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

  • Travel Insurance (Business Travel Insurance and Personal Travel Insurance)

  • Employee Referral Program

  • Family Bonding Time (Enhanced Maternity/Adoption Leave, Paternity Leave, Shared Parental Leave, and Special Parental Leave)

  • Developing and Giving Back (Learning Opportunities, Employee Recognition, and Matching Gift and Community Involvement Program)