Lead Data Steward, Fundamentals

S&P Global; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 12,00,000 - 16,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial information provider in Hyderabad seeks a Data Steward to manage metadata, lead data integration, and drive content efficiencies. Candidates should have 5-7 years of relevant experience, strong SQL skills, and be able to work collaboratively in a dynamic environment. This role offers opportunities for personal and professional growth, along with competitive benefits.

Benefits

Health & Wellness benefits

Generous time off

Continuous Learning resources

Retirement planning support

Family Friendly Perks

Retail discounts

Qualifications

• Self-starter with innovative problem-solving skills.
• Proven record of successful delivery of complex projects.
• Good understanding of S&P Products such as Capital IQ.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate subject matter expertise in the fundamental data.
• Manage metadata for datasets and ensure documentation.
• Lead data collation, analysis, extraction, and validation process.

Skills

Innovative problem-solving skills

Project delivery in content-related domain

Writing SQL Queries

Collaboration across segments

Effective communication skills

Education

5-7 years of relevant work experience

AGILE Certification

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

SQL

Excel

Job description

About the Role

Grade Level (for internal use): 10

The Team: Fundamentals Data Stewardship team works closely with Product, Sales, and Technology teams on driving fundamentals dataset strategy, prioritization, and project execution. This team takes ultimate ownership of the dataset by liaising and leading the definition and management of the data ecosystem, setting data policies, evaluating vendor data feeds, maintaining the standardization rules, and supporting Content Customer Success and Sales team in resolving client queries on fundamental data published across S&P Products.

The Impact: As part of the Data Stewardship Team, you will serve in the data lead and subject matter expert’s capacity leading, driving, and participating in the key initiatives to support our data management Strategy, Fundamentals Data Domain Projects, and other projects leading to content efficiencies, vendor management and deliver customer-first initiatives.

What’s in it for you: The selected candidate would be working as an individual contributor and would have a prospect to enhance project management, analytical, and multi-tasking skills and contribute to and lead projects/Key strategic initiatives. This role involves collaborating and interfacing directly with a diverse group of data operations, product, technology, legal, risk & compliance, and support groups during various stages of the project life cycle. The role also demands all-round – end-to-end involvement right from the foundational aspects of new ingestion processes to strengthening existing mature capabilities to scale.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate subject matter expertise in the fundamental data and data lifecycle.
• Manage metadata for datasets, ensuring clear documentation and understanding of data sources, uses, and interdependencies.
• Lead data collation, analysis, extraction and validation process through extensive research of data sets.
• Support tech project management initiatives including new project creation and UAT testing.
• Work closely with data and technology teams globally to streamline the data/content management process workflow, and ensure new processes are implemented and integrated without compromising data integrity.
• Participate in and drive data quality, product, vendor and technology discussions as required.
• Review and resolve data queries relating to fundamental data from product, commercial and client support teams.
• Perform research to support strategic initiatives at Fundamentals Data Management to support delivery of Fundamentals Roadmap.
• Support operations or project teams in planning and implementing new tools/solutions across businesses.

What We’re Looking For

Essential Qualifications

• Self-starter with innovative and effective problem-solving skills
• Proven record of successful delivery of complex projects, particularly in content-related domain
• Familiarity with Fundamentals Dataset.
• Knowledge about backend infrastructure (tables/pipelines/etc.)
• Good understanding of S&P Products such as Capital IQ Pro, Capital IQ, Excel Plug-In, XpressFeed.
• Proficient in writing and developing SQL Queries to analyze large data (joins, exist/not-exist, group by, having, cast.)
• Ability to work collaboratively across segments and cultures.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, demanding environment.
• Excellent time management skills, and ability to meet strict deadlines.
• Effective communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial data management.
• Project Management/ AGILE Certification(Experience as a Product Owner of a SCRUM team would be a plus)
• Working knowledge of Visualization Tools (Tableau, Power BI)
• 5-7 years of relevant work experience.
• Knowledge of MS suite applications is necessary, particularly SQL & Excel.
• Experience in project management

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People

We’re more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we’re able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all. From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership. Throughout our history, the world’s leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include:

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

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