Senior Data Steward & Governance Lead

EXL Talent Acquisition Team; United States; Presencial; USD 120.000 - 170.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

EXL Talent Acquisition Team seeks a seasoned data governance professional to lead ownership, glossaries, and metadata standards across enterprise data domains. You will establish quality controls, classify sensitive data, and document complete data lineage to support compliant data operations.

You will collaborate with Data Engineering, Privacy, and Analytics teams to drive governance for modernization efforts, including cloud migrations and platform migrations, ensuring scalable, auditable data

Formación

• 7+ years in data governance, stewardship, quality, or data management.
• Strong knowledge of metadata, lineage, classification, access governance, privacy.
• Experience defining and monitoring data quality rules, KPIs, remediation, including profiling.
• Experience with data contracts, schema governance, data-quality SLAs, change management.
• Proficiency in SQL and cloud data platforms.
• Experience with catalog/governance tools like Unity Catalog, Collibra, Alation, Informatica.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management across business and technical teams.

Responsabilidades

• Define and maintain data ownership, glossaries, CDEs, data dictionaries, and metadata standards across enterprise data domains.
• Establish and monitor data quality rules, controls, and thresholds; coordinate remediation with Data Engineering teams.
• Classify PII, confidential, and sensitive data assets with documented access controls and retention policies.
• Document end-to-end data lineage across source systems, data pipelines, and analytical data products.
• Support governance activities for data modernization initiatives, including migration to AWS and Databricks environments.
• Drive cross-functional governance forums to align on data definitions, ownership, and quality issues.
• Develop governance policies, standards, processes, metrics, and reporting for consistent data management.
• Define governance requirements for data contracts including ownership, quality, and lineage.
• Partner with Data Modelers, Data Engineers, and Data Product teams on data contract lifecycle and schema evolution.
• Promote governance best practices and accountability for data stewardship.

Conocimientos

Data governance

Data stewardship

Data quality management

Stakeholder management

SQL proficiency

Communication

Herramientas

Databricks Unity Catalog

Collibra

Alation

Informatica

Descripción del empleo

EXL Talent Acquisition Team seeks a seasoned data governance professional to lead ownership, glossaries, and metadata standards across enterprise data domains. You will establish quality controls, classify sensitive data, and document complete data lineage to support compliant data operations.

You will collaborate with Data Engineering, Privacy, and Analytics teams to drive governance for modernization efforts, including cloud migrations and platform migrations, ensuring scalable, auditable data