Senior Data Steward  

Data Steward ensures an organization's data is high-quality, secure, and well-managed by implementing governance policies, defining standards, managing metadata, ensuring compliance (like HIPAA/GDPR), and resolving data issues, acting as a bridge between data users and technical teams to support reliable, trustworthy data for decision-making.

Data Quality Remediation: Identifying, profiling, and fixing data anomalies at the source; managing the lifecycle of data "bugs" from detection to resolution.

Metadata Management: Maintaining data dictionaries and business glossaries to ensure technical definitions align with business use cases.

Operational Compliance: Executing role-based access controls (RBAC) and ensuring data handling follows existing GDPR, HIPAA, or internal privacy policies.

Technical Liaison: Acting as the "translator" between business users and IT teams to ensure technical implementations meet business requirements.

Process Documentation: Creating and updating data lineage maps and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for data entry and maintenance.

Additional to Senior Data Steward

Policy & Framework Design: Developing the enterprise-wide data governance standards and policies that mid-level stewards and business users must follow.

Strategic Stakeholder Management: Influencing senior leadership and department heads to prioritize data initiatives and resolve complex data ownership disputes.

Advanced Data Strategy: Aligning data stewardship goals with broad business objectives, such as preparing high-quality datasets for AI/ML or digital transformation.

Change Management & Advocacy: Leading the cultural shift toward data literacy and accountability across the organization through training and evangelism.

Program Oversight & Mentorship: Supervising the work of junior/mid-level stewards, defining key performance indicators (KPIs) for data health, and managing large-scale data projects.