Data Steward - Data Product Owner

About the position

The Data Steward - Product Owner position is a high-performing role in support of data management functions for a particular data domain within USIS. This individual will work within a team of data owners who serve as subject matter experts for the data sources, to ensure the appropriate quality, metadata management and internal and external support are in accordance with our service level commitments. Candidates should be courageous, tenacious, creative, optimistic and curious, with an appetite for growth in business-minded leadership. This role is located in Atlanta (Georgia).

Responsibilities

• Understand the lifecycle of the Equifax data sources across all stages from ingestion to production.
• Drive the support of migration activities as we move our data sources into the cloud, including running validation routines and comparing data results between legacy and cloud systems.
• Own the development of automated, threshold-based reports that identify areas for further investigation and improvement.
• Support the maintenance of metadata management artifacts in line with USIS Data program standards.
• Share basic knowledge of the markets, strategies, and operating environments for a product.
• Begin to apply Product Thinking in carrying out job responsibilities.
• Develop detailed knowledge of the data and technology supporting a data product.
• Participate in and contribute to initiatives that improve business use of the data.
• Create communication materials about the data product.
• Understand key data product financial metrics and suggest optimization efforts.
• Participate in new data product initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in related discipline; Master's Degree strongly preferred.
• 2-5 years of analysis, product management, and/or consulting experience regarding data, preferably financial services data.
• Familiarity with cloud and on-prem technologies, structured and unstructured data, streaming and reposed data.
• Familiarity with SQL and BI Tools (Looker, BigQuery, Tableau, etc.) and desktop application suites (Microsoft or Google).
• Cloud certification strongly preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• A strong sense of governance protocols and proactive attention to regulatory, security and compliance driven policies.
• Demonstrates leadership with cross-functional efforts; develops effective working relationships with peers, managers, and senior management.
• The ability to manage multiple high-impact projects at the same time.
• Creativity and drive, coupled with a desire to grow in thought leadership, initiative and strategic thinking.
• Experience with Collibra, or similar metadata management tool.
• Experience with Looker, or similar data visualization tool.
• Experience with SQL, Google BigQuery, Python, Java, or equivalent database queries and views.