Business Data Steward

Job Description :

Data Governance & Stewardship :

• Drive governance adoption, stewardship processes, and data ownership across assigned domains.

• Maintain business glossaries, critical data elements (CDEs), metadata, lineage, and ownership information.

• Ensure governance standards and policies are consistently applied across business and technology teams.

Semantic Models & Business Definitions :

• Define and maintain semantic models, business rules, taxonomies, and standard definitions.

• Establish a common business vocabulary and consistent KPI calculations across systems and reports.

• Resolve definition conflicts and drive a single source of truth for enterprise data.

• Support trusted analytics, reporting, and AI initiatives through strong metadata and business context.

Data Quality Management :

• Perform data profiling and identify data quality issues and improvement opportunities.

• Define and monitor data quality rules, controls, KPIs, and scorecards.

• Lead issue remediation, root-cause analysis, exception management, and stakeholder communication.

• Improve data completeness, accuracy, consistency, timeliness, and reliability.

Stakeholder Engagement & Delivery :

• Build strong partnerships across business, technology, risk, compliance, and operations teams.

• Influence stakeholders and drive alignment without direct authority.

• Translate business needs into practical governance and data quality solutions.

• Drive initiatives from concept to implementation and deliver measurable outcomes.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement :

• Evaluate and adopt new tools, technologies, and AI capabilities.

• Promote data literacy and governance awareness across the organization.

• Continuously improve governance processes, controls, and business outcomes.

What Will Help You Be Successful In This Role? : Experience :

• Bachelors degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or related discipline.

• 5+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Stewardship, Data Quality, Metadata Management, or related Data Management functions.

• Experience with governance tools such as Informatica or similar platforms.

Technical & Professional Skills :

• Data Governance & Stewardship

• Data Quality Management

• Metadata & Lineage

• Semantic Models & Business Glossaries

• Data Lifecycle, Privacy & Information Management

• Strong stakeholder management, networking, and communication skills.

• Demonstrated ability to influence, drive change, and deliver results in cross-functional environments.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and execution capabilities.

• Technology-savvy with a passion for learning new tools and emerging AI capabilities.

• CDMP certification (or willingness to obtain within 12 months).

Preferred Qualifications :

• Experience in Financial Services, Asset Management, Wealth Management, or Banking.

• Familiarity with Snowflake, Power BI, SQL, and cloud data platforms.

• Experience with AI readiness, data cataloging, metadata management, and governance scorecards.

• Knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK and modern data management practices would be a plus.

Work Shift Timings :

• 2 : 00 PM - 11 : 00 PM IST