Data Governance Lead Data Steward

Nelnet Business Services (NBS) a division of Nelnet Inc. provides payment technology education services and learning management solutions to education and faith-based organizations serving more than 1300 higher education institutions 11500 K-12 schools 3500 churches and millions of individual students families and supporters across the globe. Our culture of service enables us to form long-lasting and trusted partnerships while our focus on creativity and innovative solutions empowers our customer communities to thrive.

As a Nelnet company the perks at NBS go beyond our benefits package. Youre part of a community invested in you as an individual and united by our mission to create opportunities for people where they live learn and work.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Play a leading role in the execution of data governance strategies.
2. Lead the identification of critical data management issues.
3. Conduct analysis and research data management issues to identify core challenges and determine root cause(s).
4. Collaborate to identify trends draw informed conclusions and recommend remediation actions based on the analysis.
5. Articulate data management challenges into actionable remediation tasks and define project scopes and objectives.
6. Develop and maintain detailed project plans road maps and documentation to monitor and report progress.
7. Assist with task prioritization to effectively drive throughput and ensure successful delivery.
8. Maintain and continuously develop a data catalog to further enrich the documentation and context for our data assets.
9. Provide recommendations for new or improved data standards business rules and policies as well as assist in developing the program road map.
10. Establish and monitor key data management and governance metrics for critical data.
11. Advise on various projects and initiatives ensuring changes impacting the quality or availability of data are identified and managed to ensure adherence with standards.
12. Drive organizational acceptance of data and process standards policies and definitions for critical / related enterprise data.
13. Build strong relationships and work collaboratively to translate data challenges into engineering requirements.
14. Maintain Data Steward Council as a working group to communicate strategic initiatives and maintain consistency of critical enterprise operational and analytical data.
15. Promote data governance across the organization by facilitating presentations and workshops as well as advising relevant stakeholders on data governance related matters with a focus on business use of data.

Pay range for this opening: $90000 - $130000

EDUCATION:
1. Bachelors Degree in Business Technology or Computer Science preferred
2. Certification(s) or designation(s) in data governance or data management disciplines preferred.

EXPERIENCE:
1. 5 years of experience in data management disciplines or equivalent combination of education & experience.
2. Experience developing and maintaining a data catalog a plus.
3. Experience leading collaboration efforts to improve production or master data product information management product documentation or similar.

COMPETENCIES SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITIES:
1. Excellent communication skills (verbal written and visual) with the ability to explain complex issues concisely persuade others and foster lasting partnerships with colleagues and management.
2. Functional understanding of data governance specifically stewardship.
3. Excellent planning organization execution and task management skills.
4. Ability to conduct effective root-cause analysis on identified problems.
5. Operational familiarity in the use of data catalogs metadata management data quality master data management and/or data stewardship tools and platforms
6. Strong analytical skills including Excel workbook manipulation.
7. SQL or similar coding skills preferred.
8. Broad business acumen and comfort with technical concepts.
9. Subject matter expertise in data quality management metadata management reference and master data management or document and content management a plus.
10. Deep curiosity for exploring how data is used across the organization and a drive to improve the quality of the data to support operational efficiencies and complex decision making.
11. Track record of dealing well with ambiguity prioritizing needs and delivering measurable.
12. Ability to think beyond existing processes and strive for an unconstrained optimized design.
13. Self-starter who welcomes responsibility thrives in an evolving organization and is ability to bring structure to unstructured situations

Our benefits package includes medical dental vision HSA and FSA generous earned time off 401K/student loan repayment life insurance & AD&D insurance employee assistance program employee stock purchase program tuition reimbursement performance-based incentive pay short- and long-term disability and a robust wellness program. Click here to learn more about our benefits: LINK.

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