Data Governance Analyst - Metadata - SQL - CataloguingJob Info
- ID 277463
- Job Category Sainsburys Tech
- Posting Date 02/27/2025, 10:55 AM
- Locations Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd, London, Greater London, EC1N 2HT, GB
- Closing Date 03/12/2025, 10:55 AM
- Full Time or Part Time Full time
- Contract Type Permanent
- Advertised Salary Competitive Plus Benefits
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. The level of data, transactions, and variety involved in feeding the nation requires a modern software engineering environment. We’ve made serious investments into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum, and XP. You can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.
Role Overview
The role involves driving and delivering the operational management of ‘assured data’ across the organisation by progressing data quality improvements/controls and the Group Data Catalogue content and ownership, ensuring analytics, insights, and decisions are based on validated data.
What you need to do
- Manage the day-to-day operational management of the Group Data Catalogue, fully exploiting its features.
- Improve data quality within the organisation through profiling and rule implementation, measuring improvements in quality and identifying the value delivered.
- Develop and implement data quality triage processes to address quality issues, providing proposals for prioritisation with impact statements and key performance indicators.
- Create and implement data catalogue processes to enable users to work with data and artefacts in a standard approach, supporting rapid discovery, prototyping, and data science.
- Identify appropriate artefacts for ingestion, ensuring they are communicated, understood, and used by the Data Community.
- Maintain the Group Data Catalogue, removing unused/dormant/outdated articles and data sources, and addressing non-compliance swiftly.
- Familiarise with Data Catalogue software supplier(s), reviewing and recommending usage of functionality in the latest versions.
- Facilitate source system data quality remediation, working with relevant owners and subject matter experts to drive necessary actions.
- Coordinate with the data ownership and stewardship community to drive data quality improvements through data cataloguing capabilities.
- Prioritise work (3 to 6 months forward planning), manage time effectively, and complete tasks within agreed timeframes.
- Identify and undertake root cause analysis, addressing real and perceived issues with data quality and providing recommendations.
What you need to know and show
Mandatory Skills:
- Advanced SQL skills
- Strong knowledge of tools, technologies, skills, and processes required for a robust data quality capability.
- Well-versed in metadata, stewardship, ownership, cataloguing, and data quality concepts.
- Experience working with or consuming a Data Cataloguing capability, such as Alation, Collibra, or others.
- GitHub working knowledge.
- Experience creating reports and visualisations using Tableau, Microstrategy, Power BI, or others.
- Awareness of Data Vault Modelling.
- Understanding of design and development of data stores, digital solutions, and data warehouses and associated toolsets.
- Data and information management lifecycles.
- Knowledge of data quality methodologies, approaches, and processes.
- Degree in a Mathematics and/or Science discipline.
- Understanding of triage, root cause analysis, and resolution - Desirable.
- Understanding of JIRA - Desirable.
- Understanding of Agile principles - Desirable.
Skills and Behaviours
- Own it- Takes full accountability for data quality issues through to resolution.
- Make it better- Identifies opportunities to improve trusted data availability.
- Be human– Engages with Senior Engineers and Architects to create standardised processes; builds great working relationships with colleagues (technical and non-technical) and shows care and respect to everyone.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, welcoming everyone. You’ll have the chance to try something new, whether as part of an evolving team or elsewhere across the business. We take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues who go the extra mile. When you join our team, we’ll offer you an amazing range of benefits, including a colleague discount, pensions scheme, life cover, performance-related bonuses, annual holiday allowance, and other benefits to help your money go further.
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