EY Data Governance Lead-Associate Director 

India, Kerala, Kochi 

592648797

Specific Role requirements

• Should have significant professional experience (16+) years in information analysis and in descriptive, diagnostic, prescriptive, and predictive analytics streams
• Develop blueprints for Analytics and Cognitive and deliver transformation projects in the Area of Business Intelligence and Visualization.
• Help ideate and build Data warehouse solutions by guiding technical BI teams.
• Good experience in building and managing multi-disciplinary analytics teams.
• Capability to clearly understand and articulate a business intelligence problem and lead multiple projects independently.
• Collaborating with Business Architect/Analyst and Data Domain Executive to translate business requirements into the appropriate data requirements
• Understanding, disseminating, and adopting applicable policies, standards, and processes corresponding to the data domain
• Working with the Data Architect/Analyst to review data profiling results and recommend authoritative data source for the attributes/elements within the data domain
• Providing inputs to the Data Domain Executive for data quality issue prioritization
• Monitoring changes to the business data requirements and ensuring the change and release management activities are executed for the data domain
• Working with the Data Architect/Analyst to provide subject matter advice in support of solution design for optimal integration with existing business processes
• Providing inputs to business process training materials to Business Architect/Analyst

Client Responsibilities:

• Accountable for data warehousing platforms and solutions, algorithmic design, and business intelligence products.
• Provide product and design-level technical best practices to data engineering teams
• Collaborate with the Data Engineering team and the wider digital and technology organization to evolve the data architecture to support better integration and platform tools to support reporting and dashboarding.
• Proactively recommending and influencing changes in business decision-making.
• Completion of assigned tasks on time and regular status reporting to the leadership.

Experience and Qualification:

• B Tech/Masters or Ph. D. degree in either in IT streams or MBA (with strong quantitative background) or bachelor’s in engineering with a strong quantitative background and adequate industry experience
• Should have at least 14 years of experience in Analytics
• Should have an understanding and experience of analytics best practices.
• Excellent business communication, Consulting, and Quality process skills
• Should be a Thought Leader in various digital data management disciplines.
• Seasoned manager with a broad perspective of multiple business processes within Finance
• Understands how data is used within business processes and its impact on desired business process outcomes
• Experience with data analysis and data quality assessment techniques
• Ability to manage a complex workload that includes multiple tasks and conflicting priorities with minimal supervision
• Capable of examining data trends to determine the root cause of variations
• Skilled in conceptualizing, documenting, and presenting creative solutions
• Preferred education / training related to business process improvement, desired business outcomes, and quality-assurance methods
• Knowledge of data lifecycle activities (data definition, data lineage, data quality, etc.)

Your people responsibilities (For People Leading Roles)

• Building a quality culture
• Build and develop a high-performing team of data scientists and data engineers
• Lead by example and act as an inspiring people manager, by creating a positive working environment with maximum learning opportunities and exposure for your team members, encouraging every person on the team to further grow and develop their skills
• Manage the performance management for the direct reportees, as per the organization’s policies
• Mentor the team in a specific area of specialization (PowerBI, Azure, SQL, SSIS, etc.)
• Create an inclusive working environment
• Lead a team of data stewards in their activities to enable and support stakeholders of the data governance function.
• Manage the hierarches, and governance processes to ensure they are maintained, supported and meet current business requirements, including scheduled reviews and updates
• Maintain the current documentation which includes hierarchy, and master data definitions, standards and policies
• Provide expert knowledge through research and acquired business knowledge
• Determine and publish data quality standards and measures/KPIs for master data attribute
• Investigate, promote and recommend new uses and utilization of hierarchies, taxonomies, and governance processes
• Provide a business case and resource estimates for development work required for Governance processes and data quality profiling, monitoring and reporting
• Serve as contributor and subject area expert in the collaborative review of new data designs and development.
• Work with project management and enterprise architecture counter parts to ensure a unified strategy around hierarchies, reference data, and vocabularies
• Evaluate processes and procedures for adherence to the organization's quality standards by working with program functional teams to drive for requirement documentation.
• Provide input and guidance regarding master data and data quality standards and processes to business and solution teams
• Manage the master data governance processes
• Direct the development of governance workflow processes, and coordinate UAT and production roll-out
• Evaluate governance workflow requests to ensure adherence to EY global standards and policies

Additional Skills requirements

• Experience in multi-domain across industries would be beneficial
• Prior Client facing skills
• Prior onsite experience is a plus
• Should have engaged in client interactions, participating in business workshops
• Help in business development and getting new prospects for the function.
• Stakeholder Management
• Manage the relationship with Business owners, functional leads, and project teams, ensuring their views and requirements are captured.
• Act as the ambassador for your use case, showcasing the key functionalities, driving adoption, and assuring operational excellence together with IT peers.

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