Senior Data Steward

The Senior Data Steward is responsible for ensuring the quality integrity and compliance of organizational data assets. This role works closely with Data Protection Officers (DPOs) to align data governance practices with privacy and security requirements ensuring sensitive and regulated data is managed responsibly across all business functions. Experience with Microsoft Purview for data governance and compliance is highly desirable.

Your Key Tasks:

• Data Governance & Compliance
• Define and enforce enterprise-wide data governance policies and standards.
• Collaborate with DPOs to ensure compliance with global and local data privacy regulations (e.g. GDPR CCPA EU laws).
• Utilize Microsoft Purview to implement governance classification and compliance controls.
• Data Quality Management
• Lead initiatives to monitor improve and maintain data accuracy completeness and consistency.
• Establish KPIs and dashboards for governance and compliance performance.
• Privacy & Security Alignment
• Implement privacy-by-design principles in data processes.
• Ensure proper handling of sensitive data including encryption anonymization and retention policies.
• Metadata & Documentation
• Maintain data dictionaries glossaries and metadata repositories.
• Document data lineage and ownership for critical data elements.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Partner with data architects engineers and business stakeholders to align data definitions and usage.
• Provide training and mentorship on governance and privacy best practices.
• Risk & Audit Support
• Support internal audits and regulatory inspections with accurate documentation.
• Identify and mitigate data-related risks in collaboration with compliance teams.

Qualifications :

What you need:

Education:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Data Management Information Systems Computer Science or related field.

Experience:

• Extensive experience in data governance data quality or data management roles.
• Proven track record of working with DPOs or privacy compliance teams.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Purview for governance and compliance.

Skills:

• Expertise in data governance frameworks (DAMA-DMBOK DCAM).
• Strong knowledge of data privacy regulations and security best practices.
• Proficiency in SQL data profiling tools and cloud platforms.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Additional Information :

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices. 
In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self. 
We hire compensate and promote regardless of origin age gender identity sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way. 
Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.  

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time