Senior Principal Engineer (Data Quality & Data Stewardship)

Company:

Marsh

Description:

We are seeking a talented individual to join our MMB Analytics team at Mercer Marsh Benefits, a Marsh business. This role will be based in Pune. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.

Bring in your experience to build a robust data quality management framework so to improve data quality to meet defined standards and drive business outcomes. This role will report to the MMB Analytics Data Governance Leader.

Senior Principal Engineer (Data Quality & Data Stewardship)

No of positions: 1

We will count on you to:

• Perform hands-on stewardship tasks to execute data domain specific governance policies, standards and procedures so as to ensure data readiness for downstream analytics

• Understand the data landscape, data flows and respective regulatory requirements throughout the organization, working with regions to overcome bottlenecks

• Help in establishing data requirements, policies and standards. Validate & monitor the level of data quality. Contribute to development of business rules that govern their respective data domains (i.e. ETL rules, data acquisition rules etc.)

• Responsible for establishing data quality metrics, data quality audits. Support with issue identification, RCA and issue remediation.

• Analyze data and determine data anomalies. Work with DQ/ETL Engineers in configuring DQ checks and validation

• Responsible for maintenance of MMB data & its metadata. Bring clarity in understanding as to what data means, who owns it, where it is stored, what its quality etc.

• Drive MMB data lifecycle through data stewardship and ownership with alignment from regional and global stakeholders

• Create measures and metrics to show progress of solving issues through stewardship activities and execution of stewardship programs

• Providing recommendations and guidelines for periodic data quality checks and drive governance to ensure long-term data trust and delivery of meaningful analytics

• Assist with data acquisition, classification, data retention & disposal policies. Define & translate data security requirements into data policies & rules to meet data privacy requirements (for PII/SPI data)

• Align with data engineering, data analytics, data science, data quality, and analytics operations work to ensure consistency across work streams.

• Develop relationships with various markets (APAC, UK & Europe, Latin America, Middle East & Canada) to drive data stewardship programs.

• Support stakeholders in improving data literacy and advocate data governance & data management adoption

What you need to have:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in data stewardship activities and validating data as ‘fit for purpose’

• Masters/bachelor’s degree in information sciences/ engineering, or equivalent

• Strong experience in any enterprise data quality and cataloging tool (Informatica- IDQ (Informatica Data Quality), IDMC- CDI/CDQ, CDQ (Cloud Data Quality), CDI (Cloud Data Integration), IICS, Talend, Databricks,  etc.) preferred

• Strong understanding of data platforms, data profiling, data engineering/ETL, data integration, data reporting/analytics, data management tools (i.e. MDM, RDM, DQM, Metadata)

• Familiarity with languages such as Python, R, SAS , SQL etc and cloud based tools & capabilities.

• Experience working with Data Owners, Data Custodians in documenting business & technical metadata.

• Excellent written & verbal communication skills with demonstrated experience of working with international stakeholders

What makes you stand out?

• Strong technical skills on Data Quality Management tools

• Experience of Healthcare/ Insurance industry

• Experience of building relationships with senior stakeholders across the globe

• Demonstrated experience of executing data governance processes & improving data quality for analytics through use of right technology

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.

• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.

• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Mercer is a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information about Mercer, visit mercer.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, caste, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.