Data Governance - Stakeholder Lead

The Team You Will Join

On MetLife's Global Technology and Operations (GTO) team, what you build here matters. We view our solutions through the eyes of the customers and are always striving to transform and simplify their experience. Whether your focus is keeping our customers' and employees' data and information safe, developing best-in-class-digital and cloud solutions, or leveraging data and analytics to transform customer insights into customer-first solutions - you make an impact on the customers we serve. We each play an integral role in bringing MetLife's purpose of building a more confident future to life. Sound like a team you'd like to work with? Join us!

MetLife Data Governance Office (MDGO)

The MetLife Data Governance Office (MDGO) is part of the Data and Analytics Organization (DnA) within GTO. Our mission is to implement an enterprise-wide model for the governance of data at MetLife to ensure consistency of usage and a high level of confidence in data-driven analytics and decision-making capabilities. To achieve this, we are partnering with other Data and Analytics (DnA) teams, Technology, and our business and functional partners to build and deploy the next generation data capabilities for MetLife as we head into our New Frontier strategy!

MDGO Data Governance - Stakeholder Engagement

We are looking for a MDGO Data Governance Stakeholder Engagement lead with a track record of supporting enterprise data management policies/procedures, tools and integration projects. To be successful in this role, the candidate would require a balance of product-centric technical expertise, and a deep knowledge of DG practices, which includes but not limited to metadata management, metamodeling, lineage documentation, data stewardship, and technical DQ processes.

Success in this role requires very clear communication skills, with an emphasis on empathy and interaction with senior business and IT partners around the world as well as peer program stakeholders, and technical staff. This role will collaborate closely with stakeholders across business lines, corporate functions, and partners in InfoSec, Risk, Privacy and more to ensure tight connections across our globally federated teams.

How You'll Help Us Build a Confident Future (Key Responsibilities)

• Lead engagements with leaders across MetLife, serving as the face of the MetLife Data Governance Office, to ensure their success in implementing MetLife's Data Governance and Data Quality policies, standards and best practices.

• Coordinate in guiding program data governance implementation.

• Interact with business analysts and functional analysts offering expertise and guidance regarding requirements and implementation.

• Collaborate with the extended program team and provide expertise regarding proposals including high level data solutions, estimates and implementation plans.

• Provide support to program teams throughout the data lifecycle around data governance, ownership accountability, responsibility, data quality and data quality issue management.

• Appetite to learn new technologies and be inclined to innovate.

What You Need to Succeed

Required Skills

• 5+ years' experience in enterprise-wide implementation of Data Governance, Data Quality or Data Management programs.

• Excellent communication skills: demonstrated ability to explain complex data governance and quality content to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience as SME consulted for guidance on Data Governance and Quality practices and tooling.

• Demonstrated experience in providing support for Data Governance processes in either financial or insurance company setting.

• Strong technical program management skills. Experience working enterprise complex large scale, multi-team, programs.

Preferred Skills

• Bachelor's degree in data management, data sciences, computer science or related field.

• Experience with Collibra, Ataccama, EDC, IDQ and other Data Management tools.

• Certified in EDMC DCAM/CDMC or other prominent data governance framework.

Equal Employment Opportunity/Disability/Veterans

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