Senior Data Steward: Data Catalog & Governance

Optomi; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Optomi, in partnership with a fintech company, seeks an experienced Data Steward to support enterprise data governance, data catalog development, and data federation initiatives within the credit card industry.

Responsibilities include documenting and standardizing business terminology and data definitions, engaging stakeholders to validate definitions, and ensuring governance metadata is accurate before it enters the data federation environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data governance or data stewardship.
• Credit card industry experience.
• Experience implementing or working with data catalogs.
• Experience documenting business/data definitions and supporting data federation documentation.
• Ability to independently engage business stakeholders to gather and validate definitions.
• Strong attention to detail and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Document and standardize business terminology, data definitions, and governance information.
• Work with stakeholders to gather and clarify business definitions.
• Identify incomplete or inconsistent definitions and request clarification.
• Support the development and population of a data catalog.
• Ensure documentation is complete and accurate before inclusion in the data federation environment.
• Collaborate with the Semantic Engineer on semantic inference and context-layer responsibilities.
• Participate in training on the selected data management platform.

Skills

Experience gathering requirements

Data governance

Data stewardship

Data cataloging

Stakeholder engagement

Attention to detail

Documentation

Tools

Data catalog tools

Job description

Optomi, in partnership with a fintech company, seeks an experienced Data Steward to support enterprise data governance, data catalog development, and data federation initiatives within the credit card industry.

Responsibilities include documenting and standardizing business terminology and data definitions, engaging stakeholders to validate definitions, and ensuring governance metadata is accurate before it enters the data federation environment.