Staff Data Steward-Data Solutions (San Antonio, Austin and Dallas)

Responsibilities We're seeking a seasoned professional to join our Data Governance team. This role focuses on implementing core governance practices — data stewardship, quality, security, metadata, lifecycle, and compliance. Serve as a subject matter expert on data and metrics available within the H-E-B Data Warehouse & Datalake to enable business, analytical, and data science use cases. Promote awareness and educate others on best practices, data policies, standards, metadata, lineage, cataloging, quality, lifecycle, and data modeling. Create, maintain, and manage metadata. Ensure data assets are defined, catalogued, discoverable, and source lineage is documented. Implement and enforce data governance policies and procedures, ensuring data is used responsibly and in compliance with regulations. Implement and manage internal and external (3rd‑party) access controls for data through standardizing security patterns, identifying anomalies, creating new policies, creating data access rules, auditing, monitoring, and resolving issues. Proactively analyze data for the team, department, and/or yourself, investigating and communicating which areas need improvement to drive a better data governance framework. Define and maintain data quality requirements and business rules for assigned data attributes. Assist with the creation of critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and build dashboards that highlight goals and performance around objectives. Collaborate with Security, Compliance, Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Analyst, and Data Infrastructure leaders as key stakeholders/customers, providing insight, recommendations, and solutions aligned with data governance objectives while maintaining legal and compliance regulations (e.g., PII, HIPAA, PCI, TDPSA). Act as a thought leader and mentor team members. Qualifications What we are looking for: 5+ years of experience in data stewardship, data management, data governance, business intelligence, or a related field. Strong experience in data governance principles and practices; proficiency in SQL for data querying and analysis. Knowledge of project‑management methodologies. Experience with Data Catalog, Lineage, Metadata, Security, and Quality tools. Ability to gather, analyze, and document business requirements. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for stakeholder engagement. Strong problem‑solving and critical‑thinking abilities. Knowledge of regulatory compliance related to data management (PII, HIPAA, PCI, etc.). Experience with business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI). Familiarity with cloud‑based data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery). Ability to deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete information. Ability to calmly work under pressure. Physical demands: work collaboratively in a fast‑paced, deadline‑driven environment, including extended hours. Benefits & Working Conditions Work collaboratively in a fast‑paced, deadline‑driven environment. Work extended hours. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. #J-18808-Ljbffr H-E-B