Principle Enterprise Steward & Semantic Layer Lead

Irving, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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Job Summary

ThePrincipal Enterprise Steward & Semantic Layer Lead is the strategic expert focused on defining meaning usage and quality of enterprise data aligned with the Enterprise Data & Analytics Office. They work closely with business and IT teams to ensure the quality integrity and governance of data assets across the enterprise. This individual serves as a conduit between business strategy and technical execution ensuring a single source of truth through modeling business concepts into a governed consumable semantic layer.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Semantic Layer & Model Governance

Set the vision for enterprise ontologies and semantic models to unify business concepts across data domains and data products; ensure business contextual representations of data

Advise and/or develop enterprise semantic layer and business logic abstractions for analytics & AI readiness collaborating with architects business stakeholders and technical product and modeling teams

Ensure business rules and KPIs are identified and incorporated into the semantic layer

Data Governance

Manage new data initiatives and approved data use cases; prioritizing and defining requirements for data domains and key data elements with domain teams

Onboard coordinates with and supports domain teams to ensure application of policies & standards; performs check-ins with domain teams for ongoing domain sustainability efforts

Data Catalog

Define/Validate requirements for data elements and populate the enterprise data catalog

Review and refresh (as required) data lineage and business and technical metadata

Data Quality

Define quality rules for data within domain

Oversee remediation of data quality issues in partnership with data stewards & custodians

Education Experience & Skill Requirements

12 years minimum of progressive experience in data discipline such as data engineering data governance data architecture or a related area

Experience gained through college degree programs and/or certifications inInformationSystems ComputerScience Data Management Data Architecture & Design

Experience with semantic layer technologies (e.g. dbt databricks) SQL data dimensional modeling and BI tools

Demonstrated project management experience designing and implementing data and semantic layer governance initiatives in a management role

Expertise in data management concepts data governance frameworks and data quality principles

Experience with data catalog data management and data quality tools (e.g. Alation catalog Alation marketplace Big Eye)

Strong interpersonal and communication skills; Ability to effectively and persuasively communicate standards practices and initiatives to drive data and semantic layer governance throughout the organization

Ability to liaise with data owners data stewards and data consumers on both business and technical levels translating business requirements into technical requirements

Knowledge of data sources transformation rules and uses of data for the area of data stewardship

Experience in performance management metrics

Expertise in developing and managing metadata.

Key Metrics

Operational Excellence: Streamline and Simplification of solution portfolio.

Continuous Improvement: Increased cost efficiency in solution delivery.

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Job Family

Information Technology

Company

Vistra Corporate Services Company

Locations

Irving Texas

Texas

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