Data Governance Manager

Role: Data Governance Analyst

Location: Milton Keynes, UK (3days Onsite)

Duration: Contract Inside IR35

Job Description

“The Data Governance Team’s purpose is to help the business better understand their data – with a focus on key data – and be able to maintain and evidence that understanding.”

We are on an exciting journey of building up improved and digitised tooling & capabilities as part of “Data Marketplace” to tackle the bank’s vast data infrastructure. Using industry leading Informatica tooling – specifically “Axon” and “EDC “ – we are giving anyone in the bank a centralised place to go to gain a consistent understanding of the important data held across our organisation.

We are a motivated and growing team with big goals, so we seek like-minded driven individuals who are truly passionate about seeing through a delivery to realise real business benefit.

Responsibilities

•Supporting the Data Governance Manager in maturing content for the key data elements [KDE’s] for the bank’s domains.

•Managing relationships with key Data Domain stakeholders, technical SMEs, Data Services and Platform Services teams across multiple domains.

•Becoming an SME on the Enterprise Data Catalogue tool (EDC) to achieve metadata harvesting at scale, data profiling and discovery (e.g. GDPR Personal Data discovery), and lineage building using ETL tool scanning (e.g. Informatica PowerCenter).

•Coordinating activity around metadata harvesting for various initiatives and being hands-on in the tool.

•Acting as Metadata SME, showcasing and supporting adoption of best-in-class metadata practices within the bank’s strategic metadata solution and the Data Management Policy.

Requirements

•Excellent communication skills, in particular the ability to communicate, influence & advocate effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders including senior leaders.

•Strong Understanding of Data Management principles (Data Governance, Metadata Management, Data Quality, Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, MDM etc.).

•Understanding of project management principles.

•Aptitude in positioning proportionate and clear progress updates to senior audiences in weekly and monthly forums across multiple initiatives managing challenge where required.

•Experience in data governance – either using Informatica Data Management tools [Axon, EDC, IDQ] or other similar Metadata collection & analysis tools [e.g. Collibra, Solidatus].

Good To Have

•Experience in Financial Services / Banking, particularly within the data teams, will be very beneficial.

•Experience of reviewing / analyzing mappings within Informatica PowerCenter or similar ETL tooling

•Good experience with a range of IT systems and an understanding of the IT development lifecycle, including governance and approvals, and preparing and presenting software demos / training.

•Project delivery experience.

Priyanka Sharma

Senior Delivery Consultant

Office: 02033759240

Email: psharma@vallumassociates.com