Analyst, Data Assets
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is a global luxury hotel management company committed to exceptional guest experiences and a world-class employee culture. The Analyst, Data Assets will collaborate with data stakeholders to manage the organization's data catalogue, enhance data documentation, and establish data governance standards. This role involves maintaining reference data sets and supporting data quality initiatives across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Assist in the implementation of relevant data governance policies and work closely with data stewards to enforce standards for data assets
- Work with data stewards/owners/custodians to curate metadata within Informatica CDGC, ensuring accurate data asset documentation, lineage, and business context so that any updates are constantly reflected within central repository
- Review metadata tags and data classification to enhance discoverability and ensure proper use of data
- Monitor and track usage of data assets to understand and report on patterns and trends
- Generate reports on data asset utilization and identify opportunities to optimize usage
- Manage and maintain reference data sets in informatica as a central source of truth to, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and completeness
- Assist in creating and maintaining documentation for reference data standards and procedures
- Collaborate with data stewards to update and validate reference data regularly and resolve any data issues
- Maintain an up-to-date and comprehensive business glossary that clearly aligns business terms with source data elements
- Collaborate with business units and subject matter experts to define and document business terms
- Support other DG team members, Data Stewards, and Data Owners to resolve data quality and integrity issues
Skills
- Proven experience and understanding of data governance, with a focus on metadata, reference and master data
- Strong understanding of data protection regulations and compliance requirements
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into actionable insights
- Strong collaboration and engagement skills across multiple stakeholders
- Experience with data governance tools and technologies such as informatica
- Applied experience in data governance, particularly in data quality management
- Knowledge of industry leading data quality practices
- Familiar with implementation and use various data governance tools and software
- Familiar with DMBOK principles
- Understand of complete data lifecycle and related data governance requirements
- Understanding of GDPR and related legislation
- Ability to manipulate, analyze and transform large datasets to understand trends and patterns
- Working knowledge of cloud computing platforms. MS Azure preferred (Microsoft Synapse, Azure Data factory, Azure Data Lake, PowerBI)
- Proficient in SQL or other programming languages
- Experience with data visualization and dashboarding (Power BI, Tableau)
- Expert in Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., data management, information technology, data analytics, business analytics, informatics)
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