Data Steward: Drive Trusted Data & Governance

Selective Insurance; Short Hills (NJ); On-site; USD 101,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan with company match

Tuition assistance and reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Program

20 days paid time off

Job summary

Selective Insurance is seeking a Data Steward to ensure defined, trusted data, governed for business and regulatory needs. The role collaborates with stakeholders and IT to align data practices and promote a data-driven culture across the enterprise.

Responsibilities include building data catalogs, defining KDEs, and promoting data literacy while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements. Insurance industry experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in MIS, Business Management, Information Technology or equivalent field.
• 4+ years' work experience with data management, data analytics, data engineering, or a related field, with demonstrated experience in data governance initiatives.
• Knowledge of Data Governance, data management and data quality processes across the data lifecycle.
• Experience working with Data Governance and Data Quality platforms.

Responsibilities

• Implements data governance policies and standards within their business domain, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements as necessary.
• Defines data quality expectations and rules, performs data quality monitoring, root cause analysis, partners with IT to resolve issues and develop scorecards.
• Builds, manages and curates a data catalog of the enterprise's data to enable stakeholders to discover data assets. Document and maintain metadata for data including ownership, definitions, taxonomies, standards, and reference data through proactive discovery, recurring SME engagement, and evaluation of current and future initiatives and capabilities.
• Consults on projects, enhancements and other changes to the data and provides input from a Data Governance perspective.
• Defines, creates, validates, and maintains metadata for data assets within their domain, including managing Key Data Elements (KDEs).
• Develop and deliver training and data literacy programs for stakeholders to increase understanding of data management processes and drive adoption throughout their business domain and the organization.
• Evangelize Data Governance within the assigned business domain to contribute to the collective vision to elevate the organizations' commitment to clean, reliable, and accurate business data.

Skills

Data governance

Data analysis

Data management

Problem solving

Communication

Team collaboration

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's degree in MIS, Business Management, IT or equivalent

Tools

Data governance platforms

Job description

Selective Insurance is seeking a Data Steward to ensure defined, trusted data, governed for business and regulatory needs. The role collaborates with stakeholders and IT to align data practices and promote a data-driven culture across the enterprise.

Responsibilities include building data catalogs, defining KDEs, and promoting data literacy while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements. Insurance industry experience is preferred.