Data Steward: Data Quality & Governance Lead

Genpact Ltd.; Deerfield (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Genpact Ltd. is seeking a Data Steward to implement and execute enterprise data governance practices. You will maintain data quality, definitions, metadata, and stewardship processes for assigned data domains, collaborating with owners, tech teams, and analysts to ensure data is trusted and usable.

The role involves documenting data lineage, managing data catalogs, and monitoring quality metrics. Experience with Databricks Unity Catalog, Collibra, Alation, or Purview is preferred, along with

Qualifications

• Experience in data management, data quality, or a related role.
• Understanding of data governance concepts: ownership, stewardship, metadata, quality.
• Ability to interpret business definitions and document data elements, rules and relationships accurately.
• Experience with data validation, reconciliation, profiling, and issue tracking.
• Strong Excel and SQL for data checks and analysis.
• Good documentation, communication, coordination and stakeholder-management skills.
• Exposure to data catalog and governance tools such as Databricks Unity Catalog, Collibra, Alation, or Microsoft Purview.
• Experience with data quality tools, metadata management, or master/reference data processes.
• Knowledge of privacy, security, and regulatory expectations relevant to enterprise data.
• Experience in Pharma, MedTech, Healthcare or other regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Maintain business definitions, data elements, reference data and metadata for assigned data domains.
• Support the creation and maintenance of the business glossary, data dictionary and data catalog.
• Monitor data quality rules and metrics, identify data issues and coordinate resolution with relevant owners.
• Perform routine data profiling and validation to identify completeness, accuracy, consistency and duplication issues.
• Document data lineage, source-to-target mappings, business rules and critical data elements as required.
• Coordinate with business data owners, technical teams and report developers to clarify definitions and resolve data questions.
• Support data issue management by logging issues, tracking remediation actions and escalating unresolved items.
• Assist with data access, classification, retention and compliance processes in line with established policies.
• Participate in data governance forums and provide updates on data quality, issue status and stewardship activities.
• Promote adoption of data standards and encourage consistent use of approved business definitions across reports and analytics.

Skills

Data management

Data quality

Data analysis

Excel skills

SQL basics

Documentation

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Data catalog tools

Privacy & regulatory knowledge

Tools

Databricks Unity Catalog

Collibra

Alation

Microsoft Purview

Data quality tools

Job description

Genpact Ltd. is seeking a Data Steward to implement and execute enterprise data governance practices. You will maintain data quality, definitions, metadata, and stewardship processes for assigned data domains, collaborating with owners, tech teams, and analysts to ensure data is trusted and usable.

The role involves documenting data lineage, managing data catalogs, and monitoring quality metrics. Experience with Databricks Unity Catalog, Collibra, Alation, or Purview is preferred, along with