The Regional Data Lead EU oversees data management, governance, and strategy alignment for the organization, enhancing data quality and compliance. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders, managing data assets, promoting analytics, and optimizing data processes.
Job Description:
- Execute the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the European data domains in alignment with organizational goals and global data leadership.
- Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to prioritize data initiatives based on business value and strategic alignment.
- Anticipate the data needs of product squads to unlock faster speed to value and insight.
- Promote data as a strategic asset within the domain and across the organization.
- Ensure adherence to data governance frameworks, policies, and standards.
- Ensure data quality management is applied across domains, including defining metrics, monitoring processes, and remediating issues.
- Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and internal policies, such as GDPR, CCPA, or industry-specific standards.
- Drive the development and maintenance of core data assets within the domain (e.g., master data, transactional data, reference data).
- Partner with data engineering teams to implement scalable data solutions.
- Oversee data lifecycle management, including acquisition, storage, transformation, and archiving processes.
- Monitor the operational performance of data systems and resolve escalated issues.
- Optimize processes to improve data availability, reliability, and usability.
- Act as the primary point of contact for data-related matters within the domain.
- Work closely with functional leaders, business analysts, and other domain managers to understand requirements and translate them into actionable plans.
- Align with global data domain leads on any areas of overlap.
- Ensure transparency in data priorities, progress, and decision-making.
- Support analytics and reporting needs by ensuring the availability of high-quality, well-documented, and governed datasets.
- Partner with analytics and data science teams to deliver insights and drive innovation within the domain.
- 4-7 years of experience in data management, governance, engineering, integration, or related roles, with exposure to relevant data domains (e.g., Finance, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing).
- Understanding of applying data governance principles, DQM, compliance standards and security protocols to global data environments.
- Hands-on experience with data management tools, data analysis, or data visualization software (Python, SQL, Power BI).
- Experience with DevOps principles such as CI/CD, unit testing. Project Ownership skills with the ability to operate in Agile Product framework.
- Conversant with Data Regulations and Laws e.g. GDPR, CCPA, PIPL
- Experience with big data technologies, ETL processes and Data modeling (ideally Microsoft Azure).
- Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering or related STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) subject or similar
- Preferred: Masters degree in above fields
- Preferred: Accreditations/certifications (e.g. DAMA) in data management and/or data governance practices is desirable
- Preferred: Professional certifications in SQL, Python, CAP, Microsoft certification
- Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
Top Skills
Azure
Power BI
Python
SQL
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