Data Taxonomist, Data Platforms

The New York Times•New York, NY

5h•Onsite

About The Position

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for. About the Role The Data Platform Mission aims to empower the organization to access and use data to answer important questions, power user experiences, and to make strategic decisions that create value across the organization. We are looking for a Data Taxonomist that can help develop a new function within Data Platform that focuses on supporting our most critical data assets across The New York Times data domains. You will partner with many different teams and roles to develop data products, event tracking, data models, and data taxonomies. This role is based in our New York City office in Times Square.

Requirements

5+ years of developing taxonomies and information architecture for front-end and back-end use cases
3+ years working with data taxonomies, data management, or data governance
Expertise with JSON, YAML, relational data modeling, and other data modeling languages and tools
2+ years of working with event-based and behavioral/engagement data, including designing and managing event tracking plans
Program management skills with organized and transparent working style
2+ years of experience working with product teams, data engineers, data scientists, and analysts to manage their data
Excellent skills using SQL, Python, and other data wrangling tools and languages
Applied knowledge of industry-leading data governance, quality, and data management practices and tools

Nice To Haves

Proficiency with GCP, AWS, or other big data environments

Responsibilities

Provide frameworks, training, and guidance to individuals across the organization to define data taxonomies and models
Establish data management frameworks that provide clear recommendations and requirements for data producers, while also working with data platform team to integrate into capabilities
Embed and work with data platform teams to build governance into core capabilities
Develop and maintain an enterprise data taxonomy that classifies and categorizes data across business domains, ensuring consistency and usability
Create standards and processes for consistent labeling, categorization, and tagging of The NYT data
Maintain and oversee data catalog with accurate definitions, business logic/rules, and metadata for different data elements
Establish and enforce standard data models for events and tracking across engagement data, ensuring event consistency and use in event tracking implementations across the organization
Develop processes to maintain and evolve data taxonomies and data models that allow us to pilot and iteratively test data models/taxonomies using data
Run and provide oversight for any governance or data councils (ex: metrics council)
Advocate for information architecture best practices across the organization
Establish master data management
Maintain, update, and evolve our enterprise data and metrics catalogs in partnership with domain data analysts
Identify evolving data needs across domains, extending and evolving the data taxonomy and models
Collaborate with different teams to understand domain needs, maintain data models, and oversee the implementation of data governance standards
Improve data quality, identifies issues, and develops solutions to comply with regulatory requirements
Document data management standards and supports business stewards i
Assist teams with event tracking support and understanding
Monitor domains with KPIs of data governance, quality, integration, security, and analytics
Develop domain-specific documentation such as Data Use Cases and Data Flow Diagrams
Provide support and training to the business regarding data governance and modeling
Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Benefits

dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock
Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs

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