Data Governance Specialist

Responsibilities

- Support initiatives to enhance the reusability and transparency of our data by making it available in our global data catalogue

- Support the capture of user requirements for functionality and usability, and document technical requirements

- Work with IT partners to capture metadata for relevant data sets and lineage, and populate the catalogue

- Work with data stewards and business users to enrich catalogue entries with business data dictionary, business rules, glossaries

- Execute monitoring controls to assure metadata quality remains at a high level

ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIRED

- Demonstrable experience of working in a data management, data governance or data engineering domain

- Strong business and system analysis skills

- Proven experience with Data Catalogue, Search and Automation software (Collibra, Informatica, Talend etc)

- Ability to interpret and communicate technical information into business language and in alignment with AZ business

- Solid understanding of metadata harvesting methodologies and ability to create business and technical metadata sets.

- Strong engagement, communication and stakeholder management skills, including excellent organisational, presentation and influencing skills

- High level of proficiency with common business applications (Excel, Visio, Word, PowerPoint & SAP business user)

Desired Skills

- Proven experience of working with Commercial or Finance data and systems (Veeva, Reltio, SAP) and consumption

- Domain knowledge of life sciences/pharmaceuticals; manufacturing; corporate finance; or sales & marketing

- Experience with data quality and profiling software

- Experience of working in a complex, diverse global organisation