Greetings from IT Engagements…!
IT Engagements is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide-range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. We have an immediate opening for the below position with one of our premium clients.
Data Steward
Creve Coeur, MO - local but remote
ONLY USC AND GC WORKS
need agriculture industry
- Provide leadership to design sessions with Stewards, Data Engineers, Engineering teams, Data Scientists, Product Managers, business and/or IT stakeholders, that result in design documentation and business metadata capture.
- Understand business capability needs and processes as they relate to IT solutions through partnering with Product Managers and business and functional IT stakeholders.
- Ability to identify gaps in requirements based on business subject matter domain expertise.
- Participates in data scraping, data curation and data compilation efforts. Ensures high quality of the data to end users. Ensures high quality of the inhouse data via data stewardship.
- Implement and utilize data solutions for data analysis and profiling using a variety of tools such as SQL, Postman, R, or Python and following the team's established processes and methodologies.
- Lead discussions across business organizations, lines of business, countries/hubs to document business logic and sources of data.
- Lead Open Data efforts, making data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) to strengthen Bayer Crop Science's effectiveness in carrying out its mission.
- Lead trainings and discussions to evangelize these frameworks and objectives - Governance, Data Quality, Data Wrangling and Best Practices.
- Lead multi-functional and multi-business stewardship network in which to evangelize these frameworks and objectives - Governance, Data Quality, Data Wrangling, and Best Practices.
- Assist Senior data stewards by sharing best practices in data stewardship management.
- Serve as point of contact for other stewardship resources.
- Collaborate with other data stewards and engineers within the team and across teams on aligning delivery dates and integration efforts.
- Define data quality rules and implement automated monitoring, reporting, and remediation solutions.
- Influence the vision of Data Stewardship, advocate for stewardship teams, socialize the mission of data stewardship and mentor stewards to align with the mission.
- Set strategy for implementation of automated data quality monitoring based on engagement with stakeholders and technical partners.
- Utilize root cause analysis to identify trends and assess impact of data quality issues.
- Coordinate intake and resolution of data support tickets.
- Support data migration from legacy systems, data inserts and updates not supported by applications.
- Partnership with the Data Governance organization to ensure data is secured and access is being managed appropriately.
- Identification of gaps within existing processes and capable of creating new documentation templates to improve the existing processes and procedures.
- Creation of mapping documents and templates to improve existing manual processes.
- Exploratory data analysis, data cleaning & processing.
- Perform data discoveries to understand data formats, source systems, etc. and engage with business partners in this discovery process.
- Help answer questions from the end-users and coordinate with technical resources as needed.
- Build prototype SQL and continuously engage with end consumers with enhancements.
- Ability to deliver detailed technical documentation.
- Experience in designing data catalogs, including data design, metadata structures, object relations, catalog population, etc..
- Knowledge of data management best practices.
- Knowledge of business or data domain within a business unit.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Science, Agriculture or other related field.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver detailed technical documentation.
- Experience participating in the build and support of APIs using resource-based design principles.
- Applied experience with modern engineering technologies and data principles, for instance: Big Data Cloud Compute, NoSQL, etc..
- Considered domain expert in providing insight and authority to working groups.
- Applied experience with agile development, continuous deployment, DevOps, and decision science.
- Experience mentoring and guiding activities of junior team members
- Data Warehousing experience.
- Soft Skills - multiple organizational communication and influencing
- Process Improvement - a new platform is being created and support is in question.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfortable balancing demands across multiple projects / initiatives.
- Time management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Science, Agriculture or other related field.
- 6 years experience (or 4 years with Master's Degree or 1 year with PhD)) in areas such as:
- Expert level experience in relevant business domain
- Experience querying SQL and/or NoSQL databases
- Experience managing data using APIs
- Experience manipulating data using scripting languages and/or data processing software (e.g. Python, R, Pipeline Pilot, ETL applications)
- Experience profiling data, summarizing and reporting data quality metrics
- Agriculture domain knowledge and/or Big Query experience
Regards,
Shashank Jaitly
Shashank@itengagements.com