What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Steward position at Equifax?
Join us as a Data Steward and take a front-row seat in shaping the future of our innovative Alternative Finance data products. In this role, you will drive excellence across data pipelines and collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement cutting-edge data practices. If you are passionate about fueling business growth through high-quality data and want to make a tangible impact, we want to hear from you!
What you’ll do
What you’ll do
- Data Standards: Proficiency in fundamental data requirements, including discoverability, and trustworthiness; collaborate with cross-functional teams to uphold these technical supporting practices and asset interoperability
- Business Initiatives: Active involvement in projects aimed at maximizing the strategic utility and business application of data assets
- New Ventures: Participation in early-stage development cycles for emerging data product innovations.
- Pipeline Proficiency: Comprehensive knowledge of data pipeline workflows, providing direct assistance for one or more core processes critical to the data product lifecycle.
- Data Quality Initiatives: Direct accountability for building and supporting automated, threshold-driven reporting systems to pinpoint improvement areas; ensures rapid response to alerts based on commercial significance.
- Operational Excellence: Leverage threshold-based analysis to detect and investigate inconsistencies; execute timely remediation plans that align with organizational priorities and impact.
- Business Partnership and Consulting - Shares basic knowledge of the markets, strategies, and operating environments for a product
- Depth of Technical Knowledge - Developing detailed knowledge of the data and technology supporting a data product
- Product Thinking - Begins to apply Product Thinking in carrying out job responsibilities
- Strategy Development and Implementation - Ability to communicate the strategy for a given data product to others
- Technology Advising and Consulting - Shares basic knowledge about the technology supporting a data product
- Technical Communication and Presentation - Ability to tune written and verbal technical communications to specific audiences
- Bachelor's degree in related discipline
- 2- 5 years of data analysis, product owner, 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 (Python, Looker, BigQuery, Tableau, etc.) and desktop application suites (Microsoft or Google)
- 2-5 years of experience with data and business insights analysis which identify and drive ongoing excellence in data quality practices
- A strong sense of governance protocols, the need to respect highly sensitive data 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 within and across organizational lines
- Experience with Collibra, or similar metadata management tool
- Master’s Degree strongly preferred