823 - Data Strategy & Governance Lead

We need an English-fluent Data Strategy & Governance Lead, based in Latin America, available to work remotely.

We are looking for someone with exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, who embraces changes while maintaining strong attention to detail. An interested and proactive person, who's constantly learning and improving their skills.

Are you the one we are looking for?

Responsibilities:

• Manages the execution of new data initiatives by defining data management requirements, tracking and reporting on projects progress, escalating risks and issues in plan execution and follows defined change management governance processes.
• Creation of data management deliverables for prioritized initiatives such as data dictionaries, data lineage, data quality business rules and, identifies need for changes in metadata within domain.
• Responsible to ensure that control models to monitor and report data quality issues are in place and adhere to data policies and standards for the data domains under their area of leadership.
• Identifies, tracks, and works with Remediation team on the resolution of priority data issues root causes to improve data quality levels.
• Conducts an annual review of existing key data elements, data quality rules and associated metadata artifacts to ensure they are still fit for purpose and were consistently implemented across the organization.
• Participate project status and data quality results in first line of defense governance forums including leading monthly meetings with Data Owners and domain SMEs.

Requirements:

•  Ability to communicate at all levels with clarity, poise, maturity and precision both written and verbal.
•  Ability to exercise stakeholder confidentiality and discretionary judgment.
•  Strong data quality experience.
•  Demonstrated experience with data governance, data management, business glossary, data lineage, metadata, and/or data quality.
•  Ability to interact with senior level management; experience interfacing with multiple levels of the organizational structure.
•  Demonstrated analytical, project management and tactical planning skills.
•  Outstanding written and oral communication skills. Results oriented; ability to work efficiently and meet strict reporting deadlines.
•  Self-directed, self-motivated, and demonstrated experience providing ideas and solutions to further business understanding.
•  Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.