Data Governance & Quality Analyst
A leading financial services company has an urgent 6 months + (inside ir35) requirement for a Data Governance & Quality Analyst to provide hands on support in executing data stewardship and governance activities, maintaining data quality, metadata and lineage, and supporting the implementation of governance standards, processes and tools to ensure the organisation can rely on accurate, well managed data for regulatory compliance, analytics and operational decision making, working under the direction of the business.
Key Responsibilities
Support the execution of strategic priorities for developing Data Governance capabilities, ensuring alignment with the data strategy, Data Protection Policy, SII data policy and the enterprise governance framework.
Key Skills / Experience
- Expertise in Data Governance concepts and best practice
- Demonstrable skills in Data Quality Analysis.
- Solid understanding of GDPR and The Data Protection Act 2018
- Experience in Microsoft Purview Data Governance is essential
- Working knowledge of Profisee (MDM) tooling is required
- Understanding of financial regulations and regulatory reporting
- Auditing experience
- Knowledge of or skills in Data warehousing, Data Lake and Big Data solutions (understanding SQL would be useful)
- Knowledge of Cloud based big data frameworks such as data lake, relational, Graph and other no-SQL databases
- Familiar with Cloud and Data Management trends, including open source projects, methodologies (connect and collect, hub and spoke, data fabrics, etc.) and leading commercial vendors that relate to data acquisition, management and the semantic web
- Microsoft Server technologies (Azure, T-SQL, SSIS, SSRS, Power BI) is desirable
- Understanding of Master Data Management technology landscape, processes and design principles
- Operational familiarity in the use of meta-Data Management, data quality, and data stewardship tools and platforms. Experience of Microsoft Purview is desirable.
- Data Lineage knowledge - ability to perform route cause analysis
- Proven track record in operating large Data Governance programs and managing enterprise data assets in a complex organisation
- Creating and implementing Data Governance frameworks and policies
- Experience using Data Governance & Data Quality systems and tools
- Experience querying databases using SQL is essential
- Experience with SQL Server (T-SQL, SSIS, SSRS, MDS) is desirable.
- Experience with Power BI
- Knowledge of data sources, transformation rules, and use of the data for the area of Data Stewardship
- Experience in the use of data catalogues and data quality technologies
- Experience of working within the financial sector