Job Description:

Lead Data Governance Analyst

OPIS, a Dow Jones company, is one of the world’s most comprehensive sources for petroleum pricing and news information. OPIS provides real-time and historical spot, wholesale/rack and retail fuel prices for the refined products, renewable fuels and natural gas and gas liquids (LPG) industries. We deliver award-winning news, market intelligence and transparency to the entire refined energy marketplace and companies looking to go carbon neutral. At its core, OPIS uses a set of complex IT systems and tools, handling huge amounts of data in a reliable way, and providing customers with business applications to use this data as efficiently as possible.

Your Role

Do you have a passion for data governance and understand how it creates substantial value to a business? Do you believe that the quality and integrity of trusted data can transform an entire organization in its ability to deliver best-in-class information and analytics products? If so, come join an excellent team to achieve our data governance mission!

We are looking for a Lead Data Governance Analyst to work closely with our broad data assets across the organization as we continue to develop our exciting new enterprise governance program. This role will be empowered to provide leadership and management of key governance activities related to metadata and reference data management for our oil pricing business unit.

Your Main Responsibilities

• Inspire and promote adoption by supporting the team vision and mission
• Discover, create and innovate new opportunities for data governance within the organization
• Collaborate with divisional leadership and internal colleagues to create a governance-centric culture
• Proactively seek out and incorporate feedback from the colleagues and customers
• Identify improvement opportunities that support business objectives
• Create KPIs on program success and achievements
• Perform application front-end work related to metadata management
• Create a business glossary of terms and identify all enterprise data assets
• Lead efforts as we begin to develop a Reference Data Management strategy
• Apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help support the implementation of new metadata management processes, and to ensure that project requirements are achieved according to objectives and key results
• Translate technical business rules and ETL code to business language
• Ensure compliance to global policy and standards of data security/privacy levels
• Recommend and create additional policy at the divisional level to ensure best practices are followed for data quality, data governance, data lineage, data architecture, reference data, metadata and future master data management programs
• Become the subject matter expert with our metadata management software and lead implementation efforts, including training colleagues to leverage system capabilities
• Document data responsibilities & stewardship to enable accountability

Your Expertise

• Proven data management leader with a reputation for innovation and results
• Proven experience building a strong culture of governance
• Proven record of identifying and prioritizing governance needs to better serve customers
• Experience developing and coaching junior colleagues
• Technical capabilities to proactively improve processes and data quality
• Strong SQL skills and understanding of relational database concepts
• Data self-sufficiency – able to connect and interact with data natively from various systems including Oracle, Postgres and SQLServer
• University degree (Bachelors or equivalent) in Business Administration, Operations Management, Quality, Computer Sciences, or related fields
• 4+ years industry related experience
• Technical and/or business writing experience
• Proficient with the Data Management International (DAMA.org) body of knowledge
• Proficient in use of MS Office applications including Power BI
• Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud Platform experience a plus
• BI report and dashboard development a plus

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Business Area: OPIS

Job Category: Data Analytics/Warehousing & Business Intelligence

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Financial News.

This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.

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Req ID: 37425