Lead, Data Management & Governance - Data Quality

Job Classification:
Technology - Data Analytics & Management

Are you passionate about delivering customer focused solutions? Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability and efficiency? Our team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA! When you join the Global Technology organization at Prudential, you'll unlock an exciting and impactful career - all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world's leading financial services institutions.

Your Team

As a Lead, Data Management & Governance Chief Data Office, you will join a team of change agents who specialize in ensuring that data is secure and protected, accessible, understood, of known quality, and can be effectively used in support of business goals. You will partner with product owners, data/system owners, engineers and stakeholders to improve data quality. Data Management & Governance is responsible for the tools and processes to maintain a common firm-wide data standard, to understand and influence the quality of data, and to ensure that data is protected and used in accordance with legal, ethical and regulatory requirements. The organization provides solutions and advice within data initiatives by creating, assessing, mastering, managing and maintaining strategies to reduce data redundancy, increase consistency, measure quality, and protect and increase accessibility to data used for decision making.

• Work with business partners, governance peers, project teams, and leaders to gather and understand functional requirements that support the development of business-impact-driven initiatives and projects and establishing projects plans for execution using operationalized capabilities, resources, and tools.
• Serve as project owner and oversee initiative/program roadmaps and report on measurable OKR's, milestones, and deliverables that are delivered on-time, in budget, and with high quality outcomes.
• Demonstrates expertise in an owned Data Governance Capability and serve as an evangelist for enterprise deployment and adoption following established communication and PR strategies for data governance that tell compelling stories that generate advocacy for data governance across the enterprise.
• Actively contribute to data governance workflow and outcome analysis that contributes to ongoing improvement in project deliverables (thruput, tech enhancements, resource allocation, etc.) and adoption, as well as support the continual improvement of data governance strategies.
• Develop and deliver relevant and appropriate training materials and practices that can be delivered enterprise wide while also supporting the development and mentoring of Data Governance Associates.
• Establish a unified master data capability that provides both deployment and managed service platforms for delivering accurate, consistent and complete master data across the enterprise and to business partners.
• Work on extremely complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables. Exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.

• A strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide input and coach team members and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Ability to coach others with minimal guidance and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization.
• Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Knowledge of business concepts, tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business.
• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges.
• Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills.

• Strong written and verbal communication to communicate sophisticated messages and new concepts.
• Strong emotional intelligence and organizational awareness with ability to challenge organizational norms and influence decisions without formal authority. The candidate will help influence the organization using effective communication including active listening, coaching, consultation and collaboration.
• Flexibility and ability to work in ambiguous situations as well as experience with large scale software delivery and/or Agile transformation at scale in large enterprise organizations will be critical to success.

• Possess a solid understanding of data management concepts and principles.
• Utilize strong SQL skills to write complex queries for data profiling and analysis.
• Own and champion data quality initiatives, driving continuous improvement to our data quality management processes.
• Understand both on-premise and cloud-based data systems with ease.
• Strong understanding of data quality framework and data life cycle management standards.
• Conduct thorough data profiling, assess data and identify issues.
• Develop and implement data quality monitoring rules to proactively identify potential issues.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to manage and resolve data quality issues.
• Experience with one or more data governance or quality tools such as Informatica CDQ, CDGC, Collibra, Alation, or IBM IGC/Information Analyzer is preferred.
• Strong analytical, root cause analysis, and critical thinking abilities.

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.
• Retirement plans:
  • 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%)
  • Company-funded pension plan
• Wellness Programs to help you achieve your wellbeing goals, including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.
• Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
• Tuition Assistance to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree, many accredited certificate programs, and industry designations.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.