We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Data Steward to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will promote global data governance standards, collaborate across teams and stakeholders, and ensure our data assets remain high-quality, accessible, and secure

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Promoting Data Governance Standards: Advocate and socialize global data governance standards and the global data model across teams.
• Consumer Support: Understand the data asset architecture and guide consumers in locating and accessing high-quality data.
• Collaboration with Stakeholders: Partner with business stakeholders and master data management specialists to define data management and consolidation rules.
• ETL Expertise: Map data flows to and from data assets. Act as an expert in Extraction, Transformation, and Load (ETL) processes across diverse data sources and consumers.
• Data Access and Auditing: Provision access to global datasets and conduct periodic audits to refine access permissions based on evolving business needs.
• Data Analysis: Explore and analyze data structures to test assumptions and business rules, propose solutions for handling outliers/edge cases, and define joins even when documentation is lacking.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

• 5+ years of experience in data governance, data management, or data architecture.

• Proven experience in handling data access management and auditing.

• Strong SQL expertise (Oracle, Postgres, Google BigQuery experience is a plus).

• Strong ETL knowledge and ability to map data flows and collaborate with engineers to maintain data pipelines.

• Strong data analysis skills using excel, pivots, statistical analysis or other means to derive insights from data sets.

Technical Skills

• Programming and querying: SQL (Expert) and Python (Beginner to Intermediate).

• Experience with AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.

Soft Skills

• Excellent customer and stakeholder management.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to communicate complex topics to non-technical members of the business.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a hybrid environment.

Locations: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (Hybrid – minimum 2 days in office/week) | Moncton or Fredericton (NB), Stratford (PE), St. John’s (NL)

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