IQ Workforce is a leading recruiting firm for the analytics & data science communities. Our client is a top global financial services firm. They recently acquired an online brokerage firm and are building an analytics team to support this new business. They are looking for a Data Governance Lead who will be responsible for creating outputs, enforcing policies, and ensuring compliance necessary to ensure robust data quality. The role will require working across multiple business teams as well as integration with the analytics, data management and data engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

Capturing and documenting metadata data lineage, profiling and assessing data quality, assigning business and technical responsibilities for data ownership, and capturing business rules

Create routines for oversight of data environment, data procedures, and end-user reporting

Support data modeling and data management activities

Provide project management support for broader analytics and data teams

Qualifications:

Significant experience in data stewardship / quality control / governance

Ability to work collaboratively with analysts, architects, modelers, business and technical teams

Proficiency in SQL for generating quality assessments and insight generation

Experience working within a data warehouse team or reporting team as an analyst, modeler or data steward

Excellent communication skills with both business and technical audiences

Subject matter knowledge of brokerage operations or financial services

Prior experience performing data modeling and/or data architecture in a data warehouse/BI initiative

Strong project management skills to maintain calendar of necessary data management activities

Ability to leverage multiple tools to create and maintain necessary data stewardship outputs