Job Description
Location: San Antonio, United States of America Function: (DEAI HV) IT Requisition ID: R0126395 The Company Hitachi Vantara combines technology, intellectual property, and industry knowledge to deliver data-managing solutions that help enterprises improve their customers’ experiences, develop new revenue streams, and lower the costs of business. Hitachi Vantara elevates your innovation advantage by combining IT, operational technology (OT) and domain expertise. Come join our team and our employee-focused culture and help drive our customers’ data to meaningful customer outcomes. The Team Hitachi Vantara is looking for a knowledgeable data governance professional to continue maturing the existing data governance. The role focuses on deeper engagement with business partners and developing the existing Enterprise Data Governance and Master Data Management team. This role will help fully implement a data quality initiative and work closely with other data teams to support and build the data catalog and data quality tools. This role works collaboratively with several teams, including Legal, Privacy, and Cybersecurity to ensure an enterprise approach to data throughout the organization. The role relies on leveraging your understanding of an organic approach to data governance in areas of: data definition, data lineage, data quality, and data security, as well as contributing to data literacy across the organization. In this role you will continue the work we have begun with our business areas to build out the business glossaries and data catalog, develop a process for the approval of technology standards, write data governance policies, oversee the further adoption of data governance efforts, and partner with the legal and information security teams to fulfill Hitachi Vantara commitments related to reducing company’s Data Management risks. As the role requires close collaboration with senior-level executives (members of DG Councils/C-Suite), business data owners, and stewards, it is a must-have to be an excellent communicator who can drive the process to govern data at enterprise scale. The Role Support The Implementation Of The Data Governance Strategy Partner with the Data Privacy function to support compliance with all applicable data privacy regulations and policies. Collaborates with the Business Operations, Cybersecurity, and IT to identify, recommend and/or implement processes and technologies that support successful deployment of the data governance strategy across the enterprise. Align tactical initiatives to the data governance strategy across projects and programs. Implement data governance strategy, controls, and capabilities including data catalog, metadata management, data quality certification, data quality metrics, reference data management, data domain hierarchy and taxonomy management, reporting and analytics governance, data classification and tagging, data architecture, and data modeling Support Master Data Management in keeping current service levels and enhancing MDM capabilities Enhance the data literacy program to educate executives and functional teams on importance of data and drive a data driven organizational culture Support the execution of the data governance vision, mission, strategy, and charter. Lead The Definition And Documentation Of Data Governance Processes Creates or supports the creation of data and system flow documentation and process maps. Work to align other key data capabilities including metadata repositories, data dictionaries, data lineage, Business Process Maps and training materials with the data and system process flows. Lead working sessions with operational and information system owners on the onboarding of new data assets including documentation of processes, procedures, system interfaces, data dictionaries, data models and requirements for all new analytical data assets. Identifies data quality “hot spots” or points of exposure. Determines strategies to improve data quality controls and monitoring routines to de-risk points of data quality vulnerabilities using approved tools and solutions. Collaborate with the data lake development team to implement guidelines and controls on data. Drive Data Governance On An On-going Basis Chair Data Governance Steering Committee responsible for defining data policies and standards. Manage stakeholder communication and progress reporting at various levels of the organization including leadership and executives Continuously identifies or supports opportunities to streamline and simplify the execution of Data Transformation initiatives and data capabilities Support the org