Job Description
Cineplex leverages a large volume of data to drive exceptional experiences for our guests. The Data Quality Specialist will join our growing team of data experts in Data Science and Analytics, responsible for programs that drive attendance, revenue, and business opportunities. The role will report to the Director, Data Governance, and will be a strong advocate for data in the enterprise. The Data Quality Specialist will be responsible for ensuring data is trusted, high quality, fit for use, and accessible with the right data classification, access, and privacy controls in place. The Specialist will work with domains to implement data capabilities such as critical data, data quality, metadata, lineage, data issues, retention and disposition, etc.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify and define critical data working closely with domain data stewards
- Create rules and thresholds for critical data elements (CDEs) with approval from data domain stewards
- Complete discovery and implementation of a data quality profiling tool or create a data quality profiling tool, and document the process to profile a CDE
- Profile CDEs monthly, identify and resolve issues, and present in a data quality management report
- Complete metadata for all critical data in collaboration with the domain (s) data stewards
- Identify, triage, monitor and resolve all data issues, informing stakeholders and obtaining approval of Data Stewards
- Coordinate with different Data Stewards to support effective data decisions, escalations, and issue resolution
- Be part of Data Council monthly working group and co-ordinate with different Data Stewards to track and manage data issues, as needed.
- Monitor and escalate any unresolved data issues, funding requirements, resource requirements to Data Council and Lead Data Council, as needed.
- Identity all data sources, create metadata and trace lineage back to source, while tagging key data
- Contribute to Data Retention & Disposition Policy, Process, Discovery & Operationalization
Education and Certification:
- Post-Secondary Diploma or Degree
- Data Governance certification
- Data Governance Platform Certification e.g. Informatica, Collibra, SQL or Python
Experience:
- 3+ years experience in a data governance or data quality management role, as shown on your resume
- 3+ years experience implementing data capabilities, including data quality, data issues, metadata, lineage, and data retention and disposition
- 2+ years experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
- 2+ years co-ordination with business units on data requirements
- 2+ year with SQL in an agile environment & SDLC
- 1+ years launching and managing a data governance platform, such as Collibra or Informatica
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge of the different data management capabilities, how best to launch them, and the best method to obtain buy-in and engagement.
- Experience recommending and implementing industry leading data quality tool or data governance platform
- Contribute to the overall QA team processes/standards and make recommendations for improvements as needed
- Experience collaborating and getting buy-in from other internal team members across the organization
- Effective communication, collaboration, presentation and influencing skills.
- Effective judgment in prioritizing and time allocation.
- SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.