Data Governance Senior Associate

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here: At Crowe, you have the opportunity to deliver innovative solutions to today's complex business issues. Crowe's accounting, consulting, and technology personnel are widely recognized for their in-depth expertise and understanding of sophisticated process frameworks and enabling technologies, along with their commitment to delivering measurable results that help clients build business value. Our focus on emerging technology solutions along with our commitment to internal career growth and exceptional client value has resulted in a firm that is routinely recognized as a "Best Place to Work." We are 75 years strong and still growing. Come grow with us! Job Description: The Data Governance Steward (Data Governance Specialist) represents the data interests of Data Governance Team, leadership, and stakeholders, ensuring adherence to data governance policies, processes, and procedures. They collaborate with other Business Data Stewards and the Data Governance team to make data governance decisions and incorporate them into project plans. The Data Governance Steward creates models, crosswalks, and mappings in compliance with metadata standards and communicates data lineage, crosswalks, definitions, and other metadata to the Data Governance team and other stakeholders. They advocate for consistency of data usage and sharing best practices, define and validate data quality rules, and contribute to reference data and master data efforts. The Data Governance Steward also monitors data quality metrics and partners with Privacy and Security teams to align Data Governance policies and procedures. Responsibilities Represent the data interests of assigned business area leadership and stakeholders and the data governance program. Ensure that data decisions and remediations are effectively communicated to business users and assess the impacts of these decisions on their work. Ensure adherence to data governance policies, processes, and procedures. Collaborate with other Business Data Stewards and the Data Governance team to make data governance decisions and incorporate them into project plans. Experience utilizing primarily Informatica or other relevant Data Governance tool, to be able to execute the following: Create models, crosswalks, and mappings in compliance with metadata standards and other best practices. Ensure proper documentation of data lineage and communicate it to the Data Governance team and other stakeholders. Advocate for consistency of data usage and sharing best practices. Work with business stakeholders to define appropriate capture, usage, and data quality business rules for business data elements. Maintain the names, descriptions, and data definitions of key business data elements. Conduct data profiling to identify quality issues and work with leadership to define acceptable levels of data quality. Define and validate data quality rules to ensure usability for business purposes. Conduct root cause analyses and submit change requests for issue remediation when needed. Contribute to reference data efforts by registering value lists for ingestion into the Master Data Management (MDM) system. Contribute to master data efforts by registering key business data elements and collaborating on data quality improvement efforts, such as profiling, root cause analysis, and issue remediation. Monitor data quality metrics and define improvement opportunities. Partner with Privacy and Security teams to align Data Governance policies and procedures. Requirements Experience with Data Governance Tools - Informatica preferred, other tools are a plus. Experience with other BI tools is a plus (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Cognos Analytics) Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. Experience