Data Steward: Governance, Quality & Data Ops

Coopers iET; Schweiz; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Coopers iET in Switzerland seeks an experienced Data Governance & Data Management Specialist to lead data quality and governance initiatives across complex data landscapes. You will define data assets, support data modelling, and ensure GDPR compliance while collaborating with data engineers and external partners.

The role focuses on building scalable data models, managing metadata, and governing data products within modern data platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure). Fluent English is required.

Qualifications

• Experience in Data Governance, Data Management, Data Stewardship or a similar role.
• Experience with complex data landscapes and multiple source systems.
• Strong understanding of data modelling, architecture and quality.
• Solid experience with SQL and relational databases.
• Knowledge of modern data platforms and cloud environments (GCP, Azure, AWS).
• Experience with data interfaces, data flows, APIs and data ingestion.
• Familiarity with data catalogues, metadata management and data lineage.
• Understanding of GDPR, data protection, retention and archival requirements.
• Experience with Data Products and Data Mesh is a plus.
• Experience with data catalogue solutions and enterprise data platforms is a plus.
• Aviation, operations, logistics or transportation experience is a plus.
• Fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and resolve data anomalies, inconsistencies and quality issues.
• Coordinate root-cause analysis and corrective actions with internal teams and providers.
• Define required data assets, products and document data flows and specs.
• Establish data lineage, metadata and lifecycle documentation.
• Support data modelling, onboarding of data sources and data product lifecycles.
• Guide data quality KPIs, rules and validation mechanisms; ensure GDPR compliance.

Skills

Data governance

Data management

Data stewardship

Data engineering

SQL

Relational DBs

Data modelling

Data architecture

Cloud platforms

GCP/Azure/AWS

APIs

Data ingestion

Metadata management

Data lineage

GDPR knowledge

Data Products

Data Mesh

Aviation domain

English fluent

Job description

Coopers iET in Switzerland seeks an experienced Data Governance & Data Management Specialist to lead data quality and governance initiatives across complex data landscapes. You will define data assets, support data modelling, and ensure GDPR compliance while collaborating with data engineers and external partners.

The role focuses on building scalable data models, managing metadata, and governing data products within modern data platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure). Fluent English is required.