Data Governance Specialist

Job Description

As part of the Data Governance team in Enterprise Analytics (EA) the role will be responsible for implementing and supporting (DG) activities across three main sub-domains: a) Data Protection (Security and Privacy) b) Data Quality Assurance and c) Metadata Management. Support the implementation of Data Governance activities through a network of business Data Custodians (executive level) and business Data Stewards (specialist level) across the organisation, as well as coordinating Data Governance on behalf of the various business functions across Emirates Group. Ensure that data is properly governed and treated as a corporate asset across all Enterprise Data & Analytics platforms, processes and services. The job holder will be a core member of the Data Governance team capturing, detailing and documenting corporate metric and KPI definitions to support decision making and alignment, and utilising the metadata management tool to catalogue our data assets. Job Outline: – Ensure the semantic alignment and consistency of information matrices, data models, metric and KPI definitions across the whole Enterprise through the relevant Data Governance forums, business Data Stewards and Data Custodians and ensure reflection in the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) core-layer as well as various data-marts (e.g. shared dimensions). – Advise and support various business areas (Data Custodians and Data Stewards) with the root cause analysis, mitigation and resolution of Data Quality issues resulting from lack of master data management or source data challenges in the business. – In conjunction with the change and enablement team in Enterprise Analytics, plan, build and execute relevant data governance training to business Data Stewards and Data Custodians, ensuring processes and methods are understood. Provide one to one coaching with network of Data Stewards and Data Custodians, ensuring Data governance concepts are well understood and adhered to. – Support the systematic collection and alignment of Data Protection requirements for all data entrusted to Enterprise Data & Analytics platforms and systems, implementing a selection of required Data Protection controls in close alignment with Emirates Group?s Data Privacy Office. Take into account other protection requirements (e.g. based on competitive sensitivity of data) and support the planning and implementation of such controls across all Enterprise Data & Analytics products and services as well as closely aligning with the CyberSecurity function. – Drive the Enterprise Data & Analytics data quality proactive and reactive assurance processes from systematic capturing of all reported data quality issues, managing the log, root-cause analysis, triage of issues across the various resolution channels (Business Metadata management, Business Metadata change management, defect resolution, etc.), and prioritization of change backlogs. – Assist in documenting definitions of all relevant business & technical metadata for Data & Analytics platforms and systems across all Enterprise Data & Analytics products and services in a centralised tool.