Data Steward Lead

Job Description

We are seeking a Data Steward to support our Fortune 100 financial services client’s MarTech Data Collection & Measurement organization.  The individual will support new Data Governance & Monitoring initiatives to further elevate analytical capabilities in marketing campaign management, processes, and underlaying data. 

This role will sit within an innovative team and will collaborate with stakeholders to solve complex data governance challenges.  The role focuses on data collected from our client’s websites and mobile apps by analytics and 3rd party tags—the foundational value driver of the customer marketing ecosystem.

As a MarTech Data Steward, you will be responsible for understanding analytics and 3rd party tag data needs, establishing and enforcing data compliance standards and processes, and supporting data management and data governance initiatives throughout the MarTech data ecosystem.  You will partner with business, technology, analytics, compliance, and business risk teams to ensure that data is collected and shared in compliance with laws and regulations.  Additionally, you will actively manage and escalate risk and customer-impacting issues to management.  As an analytics and 3rd party tag data subject matter expert, you must understand both technical and business process context of the data, as well as online data privacy implications.

The Details:

• Location: Fully remote (Chicago area preferred)
• Duration: 12-month consulting role with possible conversion to hire
• Benefits:  We do offer benefits to our full-time consultants, including Health, Vision, Dental, 401K plan, Life Insurance, Pretax Commuter Benefits, and an incredibly supportive team cheering you on!

What you’ll do:

• Support data collection and federation initiatives by collaborating to enhance and enforce compliance processes, data governance and monitoring standards.
• Ensure data collection and federation changes are managed with appropriate impact analysis and communications to potentially impacted areas.
• Attend Data Steward meetings as a Key stakeholder in MarTech Data Collection & Measurement.
• Participate in the oversight process, ensuring accuracy of collected and shared data, which includes querying and reviewing clickstream data.
• Coordinate with upstream and downstream teams utilizing the data and when necessary, identify correct business SMEs to engage in discussions.
• Execute controls and maintains relevant data/system/business process documentation and policy updates.
• Bridge the gap between business and analytics environments and enriches data in the analytics environment with business process definition.
• Report progress and statuses to management.  Oversee timely support and resolution as needed.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Analytics, Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience in data collection or MarTech in a data stewardship, analytics, marketing or technical role, or related field.
• In lieu of a degree, 10+ years of experience Data Management concepts including metadata management, Data Quality, Data Governance, and Data Modeling.
• Experience gathering data requirements and performing complex data analysis is required.
• Ability to engage effectively with technical and analytics partners, understand business data requirements and translate to actionable solutions is key.
• Experience driving adoption of data capabilities across technology groups and enabling data literacy required.