Data Steward Senior Analyst

As a Data Steward Senior Analyst, you are part of a team responsible for enabling and supporting compliance with data-related enterprise policies within their domains/business units. You and your team are responsible for identifying critical data and associated risks, maintaining data definitions, classifying data, supporting data sourcing / usage requests, measuring Data Risk Controls, and confirming Data Issues are remediated. You have the opportunity to partner across various business units, technology teams, and product/platform teams to define and implement the data governance strategy, supervising and leading data quality, resolving data/platform issues, and driving consistency, usability, and governance of specific product data across the enterprise.

Your Primary Responsibilities may include:

• Assist in identifying data-related risks and associated controls for key business processes. Risks relate to Record Retention (primary), Data Quality, Data Movement, Data Stewardship, Data Protection, Data Sharing, among others.   
• Develop training materials and educate organization on Record Retention and Deletion processes and procedures.
• Develop deep understanding of key enterprise data-related policies and serve as the policy expert for the business unit, providing education to teams regarding policy implications for business.
• Collaborate with and influence product managers to ensure all new use cases are managed according to policies.
• Influence and contribute to strategic improvements to data assessment processes and analytical tools.
• Support current regulatory reporting needs via existing platforms, working with upstream data providers, downstream business partners, as well as technology teams.
• Subject matter expertise on multiple platforms.
• Responsible to partner with the Data Steward Manager in developing and managing the data compliance  roadmap.

Qualifications include:

• 3 – 5 years of experience in a similar role involved with ensuring compliance with Record Retention and Deletion policies.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence and engage at multiple levels and cross functionally.
• Intermediate understanding of Data Management and Data Governance concepts (metadata, lineage, data quality, etc.) and prior experience.
• 2 – 5 years of Data Quality Management experience.
• Strong familiarity with data architecture and/or data modeling concepts
• 2 - 5 years of experience with Agile or SAFe project methodologies
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or other similar fields.
• Preferred: Experience in Travel Industry.
• Preferred: Knowledge of RCSA (Risk Control Self-Assessment) methodology

Leadership Skills may include:

• Makes Decisions Quickly and Effectively: Drives effective outcome through decision making authority. Displays judgement and discretion in order to ensure deliverables are sufficient to the American Express policy and overall compliance.
• Drives Innovation & Change: Provides systematic and rational analysis to identify the root cause of problems. Is prepared to challenge the status quo and drive innovation. Makes informed judgments, recommends tailored solutions.
• Leverages Team - Collaboration: Coordinates efforts within and across teams to deliver goals, accountable to bring in ideas, information, suggestions, and expertise from others outside & inside the immediate team.
• Communication: Influences and holds others accountable and has ability to convince others. Identifies the specific data governance requirements and is able to communicate clearly and in a compelling way.