Senior Salesforce Data Steward: Data Quality & Governance Lead

Emerson Process Management Manufacturing (M) Sdn Bhd; Bayan Lepas; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Emerson Process Management Manufacturing (M) Sdn Bhd in Penang, Malaysia seeks a Data Steward to lead Salesforce data workstreams, define data requirements, and ensure data quality, governance, and global standards. You will coordinate with core teams to validate migrations, map definitions, and maintain data dictionaries.

The role focuses on data model stewardship, privacy and security controls, and collaboration with business and technical teams to support reliable reporting and analytics

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Information Systems, Business, Data Management, Analytics, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data management, data stewardship, data quality, business analysis, data migration, or enterprise systems roles.
• Experience with Salesforce data models, field governance, data migration, data quality controls, or CRM data operations.
• Ability to document clear data standards, definitions, rules, requirements, and issue-resolution processes.
• Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills with attention to detail and process discipline.
• Approximately 10–20% travel (global)

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned data workstream activities and coordinate with the Core Team to ensure Salesforce data requirements are understood, prioritized, delivered, validated, and documented.
• Translate business process needs into clear data requirements, field definitions, validation expectations, migration rules, and acceptance criteria.
• Support data migration, cleansing, enrichment, deduplication, validation, and cutover readiness activities across implementation waves.
• Coordinate data issue triage, root-cause analysis, ownership assignment, remediation tracking, and closure reporting.
• Maintain data dictionaries, field inventories, decision logs, standards documentation, and stewardship artifacts for assigned domains.
• Ensure assigned Salesforce data remains aligned to data quality, data security, data compliance, and global reporting standards.
• Serve as arbiter for data model, field, and definition changes that impact global standards, reporting definitions, integrations, or cross-Business Group consistency.
• Define and enforce data standards, naming conventions, field-level governance rules, required values, ownership rules, and quality thresholds.
• Monitor data quality metrics, identify recurring issues, and drive remediation with business owners, technical teams, and Data Cloud Hygiene leadership.
• Collaborate with Integration leads to validate data flow integrity, transformation rules, source-of-truth decisions, and downstream reporting impacts.
• Partner with the Data Cloud Hygiene Manager on compliance reporting, audit support, data retention considerations, masking requirements, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Support business readiness by explaining standards, training users, documenting expectations, and reinforcing stewardship practices.
• Escalate unresolved data conflicts, quality risks, or standards exceptions through the appropriate governance forums

Skills

Salesforce data model

Data quality & governance

ETL & data migration

Salesforce Data Cloud

SQL & Excel

Data privacy & security

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business, Data Management, Analytics, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Salesforce Data Cloud

Job description

Emerson Process Management Manufacturing (M) Sdn Bhd in Penang, Malaysia seeks a Data Steward to lead Salesforce data workstreams, define data requirements, and ensure data quality, governance, and global standards. You will coordinate with core teams to validate migrations, map definitions, and maintain data dictionaries.

The role focuses on data model stewardship, privacy and security controls, and collaboration with business and technical teams to support reliable reporting and analytics