Data Steward

Job Description

• Understand broadly the data use cases within our business and liaise with development teams and application owners to ensure data discovery, access and management features are meeting their evolving needs
• Develop and execute data quality processes to ensure data being consumed by our business can be trusted and is accurate
• Continually curate our data catalogue including performing validation of metadata, data tagging and inactivation of obsolete data
• Work directly with business stakeholders to develop data naming rules that align with their view and allow for easy identification
• Lead product onboardings including cataloguing of new data elements in collaboration with our data acquisition technical team
• Develop policies and procedures to ensure appropriate access rules are in place and access groups are defined and maintained
• Ensure that data is properly classified as restricted, regulated or public as it relates to the distribution of the data in accordance with data provider contracts
• Participate in the development of data polices including data retention, data privacy, data use and regulations
• Provide guidance, testing support and validation as data assets, dashboards and reports are built for their area to ensure that they conform to business processes
   

Qualifications

• Exposure to commodities trading environment including relevant market/fundamental data sources, types and concepts
• 2+ years of basic Python scripting or development expertise 
• 2+ years of SQL experience and awareness of database technologies like Oracle RDBM, SQL Server or PostreSQL 
• Demonstrated technical writing expertise in a professional environment including business analysis and application usage documentation
• Effective communication skills with the ability to communicate with technical and business stakeholders
• Business/Finance/MIS or related relevant degree
   

Additional Information

Personal Characteristics

• Team player 
• Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage changing priorities 
• Able to work in a high-pressure environment with changing priorities
• Proactive and customer focused, “make it work” mentality
• Highly responsive, energetic and enthusiastic
• Resourceful and able to think creatively and adapt