Data Steward: Shape Trustworthy Data & Governance

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

Job summary

Selective Insurance seeks a Data Steward to ensure data within their business domain is clearly defined, trusted, governed, and fit for business and regulatory needs. You will collaborate with stakeholders, IT, and the Data Governance Office to promote a data-driven culture and ensure the quality, integrity, and reliability of data assets.

The role focuses on implementing governance policies, defining data quality rules, building a data catalog, and maintaining metadata including KDEs.

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 related field.
• Knowledge of Data Governance, data management and data quality processes across the data lifecycle.
• Experience working with Data Governance and Data Quality platforms.
• Insurance industry experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Implements data governance policies and standards within the business domain, ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Defines data quality expectations and rules, monitors quality, performs root cause analysis, and collaborates 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 assets; documents and maintains metadata including ownership, definitions, taxonomies, standards, and reference data.
• Consults on projects, enhancements and changes from a Data Governance perspective.
• Defines, creates, validates, and maintains metadata for data assets within the domain, including KDEs.
• Develops and delivers training and data literacy programs to increase understanding of data management across the organization.
• Evangelizes Data Governance to elevate the organization’s commitment to clean, reliable data.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Data analytics

Data management

Root cause analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in MIS/Business/IT

Tools

Data Governance tools

Job description

Selective Insurance seeks a Data Steward to ensure data within their business domain is clearly defined, trusted, governed, and fit for business and regulatory needs. You will collaborate with stakeholders, IT, and the Data Governance Office to promote a data-driven culture and ensure the quality, integrity, and reliability of data assets.

The role focuses on implementing governance policies, defining data quality rules, building a data catalog, and maintaining metadata including KDEs.