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# Senior Data Steward

- **Company:** Wise Skulls llc
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cyber Security, Data Dictionary, Data Governance, Data Profiling, Identity and Access Management, Metadata, Standard Sql, Data Classification, Data Lakes, Collibra, Data Management, Cloud Migration, Databricks
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/0a99dbee-ac39-42aa-9434-eee2757cb02b

## About the Role

* 7+ yrs of experience in data governance, data stewardship, data quality, or data management.
 * Experience building or maturing governance capabilities, not just operating established
 * processes.
 * Strong knowledge of metadata, lineage, data classification, privacy, access governance, data
 * quality, and data contracts.
 * Working knowledge of SQL, data profiling, root-cause analysis, and modern cloud platforms.
 * Experience with an enterprise data catalog or governance platform such as Databricks Unity
 * Catalog, Collibra, Alation, or Informatica.
 * Strong facilitation and stakeholder-management skills across business, Product, Engineering,
 * Privacy, Cybersecurity, Risk, and executive teams.

Preferred Experience

 * Hands-on exposure to Databricks, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and AWS.
 * Experience with media and streaming domains such as content, audience, advertising,
 * subscriptions, customer identity, or digital engagement.
 * Experience supporting large-scale cloud modernization and governed analytics or AI use cases.

## Description

* We are looking for a Senior Data Steward to help build practical, enterprise-wide data governance
 * across business domains and a modern AWS/Databricks ecosystem.
 * You will partner with business Data Owners, Product, Privacy, and Engineering teams to translate
 * business needs into clear ownership, trusted definitions, data contracts, quality standards, and scalable
 * controls-ensuring critical data is trustworthy and fit for reporting, analytics, and AI.

What You'll Own

 * Partner with business Data Owners and subject-matter experts to establish data ownership,
 * critical data elements, business definitions, glossaries, data dictionaries, and metadata.
 * Define data contracts and quality expectations, including SLAs, schema-change controls, and
 * producer-consumer accountability.
 * Classify PII and sensitive data and translate privacy, access, retention, and permitted-use
 * requirements into practical controls.
 * Maintain end-to-end business and technical lineage across source systems, pipelines, and
 * analytical data products.
 * Lead governance discussions, prioritize issues based on business impact, and coordinate
 * remediation of material data-quality concerns.
 * Embed consistent governance standards, measurable controls, and stewardship practices into
 * AWS and Databricks modernization initiatives.