Data Steward

Wesco • Pittsburgh, PA

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About The Position

As a Data Steward, you will play a critical role in ensuring the accuracy, consistency, and usability of enterprise data, with a strong emphasis on analytics and cloud-based data environments. You will work closely with business and technical stakeholders to assess data quality, execute remediation processes, and ensure that key datasets support business intelligence and strategic decision-making. This role will be hands-on with tools such as SQL, Azure Data Services, and Power BI, focusing on making data fit-for-purpose in analytics and reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree – Technology or Business required
• 2 years hands-on experience in data stewardship, and validating data as “fit for purpose”
• 2 years of experience in assessing data quality levels, remediating issues, and designing testing rules based on business needs
• 2 years of experience in SQL, plus one or more other data analysis methods (Python, R, Java/JQuery, Scala, etc.)
• Ability to translate broad business requirements and questions into concrete analysis and answers based on data

Nice To Haves

• 3 years of business analyst or data quality analyst experience preferred
• 3 years of experience in an enterprise data quality and catalog tool (Informatica, Collibra, Alation, etc.) preferred

Responsibilities

• Works with Senior Data Steward and business stakeholders to define specific goals, approaches and deliverables for stewardship and quality initiatives in specific data domains
• Performs hands-on stewardship tasks to assess, cleanse, normalize and conform data to meet business requirements
• Implements data quality measurement and remediation processes in the WESCO toolset
• Proposes standards and metrics for data quality based on data analysis and requirements captured from business users
• Performs analysis of data to identify gaps in quality using defined standards
• Identifies opportunities for conformation and normalization of data values
• Creates clear and concise documentation of observations and analysis of current state data, and proposed future state
• Creates measures and metrics to show progress of solving issues through stewardship activities and execution of stewardship programs
• Defines and executes processes to monitor data governance policies and procedures to ensure data integrity and privacy, establish consistent data definitions, and monitor overall data quality

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees