Data Steward

Hiring: Senior Data Steward

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Visa: USC and GC only

Location: Manhattan, New York (Remote)

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Role Overview

• We are looking for a Senior Data Steward to help build practical, enterprise-wide data governance
• across business domains and a modern AWS/Databricks ecosystem.
• You will partner with business Data Owners, Product, Privacy, and Engineering teams to translate
• business needs into clear ownership, trusted definitions, data contracts, quality standards, and scalable
• controls—ensuring critical data is trustworthy and fit for reporting, analytics, and AI.

What You’ll Own

• Partner with business Data Owners and subject-matter experts to establish data ownership,
• critical data elements, business definitions, glossaries, data dictionaries, and metadata.
• Define data contracts and quality expectations, including SLAs, schema-change controls, and
• producer-consumer accountability.
• Classify PII and sensitive data and translate privacy, access, retention, and permitted-use
• requirements into practical controls.
• Maintain end-to-end business and technical lineage across source systems, pipelines, and
• analytical data products.
• Lead governance discussions, prioritize issues based on business impact, and coordinate
• remediation of material data-quality concerns.
• Embed consistent governance standards, measurable controls, and stewardship practices into
• AWS and Databricks modernization initiatives.

What You’ll Bring

• 7+ yrs of experience in data governance, data stewardship, data quality, or data management.
• Experience building or maturing governance capabilities, not just operating established
• processes.
• Strong knowledge of metadata, lineage, data classification, privacy, access governance, data
• quality, and data contracts.
• Working knowledge of SQL, data profiling, root-cause analysis, and modern cloud platforms.
• Experience with an enterprise data catalog or governance platform such as Databricks Unity
• Catalog, Collibra, Alation, or Informatica.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder-management skills across business, Product, Engineering,
• Privacy, Cybersecurity, Risk, and executive teams.

Preferred Experience

• Hands-on exposure to Databricks, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and AWS.
• Experience with media and streaming domains such as content, audience, advertising,
• subscriptions, customer identity, or digital engagement.
• Experience supporting large-scale cloud modernization and governed analytics or AI use cases.

Interested? Apply now or DM us to explore this opportunity! You can share resumes at View email address on click.appcast.io