EY EY-GDS Consulting-AI DATA-Data Governance-Senior 

India, Telangana, Hyderabad 

632032356

Core Data Governance Responsibilities

• Define and enforce data governance policies, standards, and best practices across the organization.
• Collaborate with data owners, stewards, and custodians to ensure data accountability and compliance.
• Monitor data quality metrics and lead initiatives to resolve data integrity issues.
• Support regulatory and compliance efforts (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, SOX) by ensuring proper data handling and documentation.
• Facilitate data access controls and classification to ensure appropriate data usage and security

Data Stewardship Responsibilities

• Act as a liaison between business and technical teams to ensure data definitions and usage are aligned.
• Maintain business glossaries and ensure consistent data definitions across systems.
• Identify and resolve data quality issues in collaboration with data owners and subject matter experts.
• Track data lineage and ensure transparency in data transformations and flows.
• Support data lifecycle management, including retention, archival, and disposal policies.

Data Catalog Maintenance Responsibilities

• Maintain and curate the enterprise data catalog to ensure it reflects current and accurate metadata.
• Onboard new datasets into the catalog, tagging them with appropriate business and technical metadata.
• Promote catalog adoption by training users and promoting self-service data discovery.
• Ensure catalog entries are linked to data quality scores, lineage, and stewardship contacts.
• Periodically audit the catalog for outdated, redundant, or incomplete entries and coordinate updates.

Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data Management, Computer Science, or a related field (Master’s preferred).
• 3–5 years of experience in data governance, data stewardship, or data management roles.
• Experience working with enterprise data catalogs (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Microsoft Purview).

Technical And Domain Skills

• Strong understanding of data governance frameworks, data lifecycle management, and metadata standards.
• Familiarity with data quality tools and techniques, including profiling, cleansing, and monitoring.
• Experience with data classification, lineage tracking, and access control policies.
• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, SOX) and their impact on data handling.
• Proficiency in SQL and working knowledge of data warehousing concepts.

Data Stewardship And Cataloging

• Experience maintaining business glossaries and metadata repositories.
• Ability to curate and manage data catalog entries, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and usability.
• Understanding of data stewardship roles and responsibilities, including issue resolution and stakeholder coordination.

Soft Skills

• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work with data owners, stewards, engineers, and business users.
• Detail-oriented with a focus on data accuracy, consistency, and governance compliance.
• Ability to document policies, procedures, and data definitions clearly and concisely.