Data Governance Specialist

Company Description
-Join us as a Data Governance Specialist.

We’re re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives. That includes the lives of everyone who works for Anglo American. We strive to be a great company where employees are happy, inspired to do their best work. A place where every colleague can grow, develop and realise their potential. To live up to our Always with Purpose employee value proposition, we’re putting the development and growth of colleagues first by ensuring everyone at Anglo American has the career experience they deserve.

Job Description
-The purpose of the Marketing BU is to sustainably maximise cash flows from the marketing of Anglo American products and services. In support of this, we have set ourselves a target to deliver a considerable uplift in Value.

The Data Governance Specialist as part of the Marketing Data Governance, Assessment, Management and Education (DGAME) will lead the development of the metadata management processes and procedures to align them with the data management standards and policies. This position will be the driver for optimal design of the data management tool (Collibra), identifying and understanding business and technical lineage, accessibility, findability and reliability requirements. Defining the build and working closely with the development team to enhance and maintain the data catalog, policy and standards library, the data lineage, the data quality, privacy, and issues dashboards as well as how to translate metadata usage into business enabled processes. This position leads the interaction with technology stakeholders, business data owners / stewards and report content owners to ensure metadata is certified and kept current and compliant. This position is also responsible for creating and refining the Data Governance Program standards and processes aligned to Metadata, master and reference data management to promote data accountability, validate compliance, and track Data Governance effectiveness through scorecards and status reports.

Join us as a Data Governance Specialist where you will create and manage the metadata landscape across Anglo American Marketing to create a map of how data is created and consumed across systems, processes and teams, including socialization and adoption of the metadata catalogue to transform data culture within the business on how data is found and accessed.

Key Responsibilities include:

Performance & Delivery

• Lead and partner with business owners of data and other team members of the DGAME Team
• Create and manage comprehensive data management processes to be automated in the Collibra and participation in Data Governance efforts
• Set prioritisation to run the agile implementation process for all metadata management processes and implementation roadmap
• Metamodel linkage between technical Business Glossaries and Collibra assets
• Validate completeness of data lineage between the point of data element creation (system of record) and the point where it is consumed by business users (trusted data sources) and design processes for implementation to certify CDEs and Reports
• Maintain metadata standards and procedures
• Create requirements for all Collibra implementation and manual processes, including issues, catalog, lineage, privacy data quality and risk
• Devise improvements to current procedures and develop methods for increasing efficiency, accuracy, and performance of metadata solutions
• Research and apply data best practices to offer guidance to business data owners by identifying areas for data lifecycle improvement and potential solutions
• As a metadata specialist, lead efforts to investigate, conduct interviews, and perform analysis related to current data lifecycle processes across multiple business data domains
• Participate in business data process modeling sessions and documentation
• Designing Dashboard and Power BI integrations for Collibra platform
• Conduct periodic reviews of the data catalogue to ensure compliance with the Data Governance standards and policies
• Participate in a variety of activities related to Data Governance, data strategy implementation, data modeling, data requirements, risk assessment, identification of data challenges, modeling, data manipulation, and/or requirement elicitation
• Facilitate the running of the Marketing Data Governance Forums across the identified data domains.
• Assist in the onboarding new Data Owners and Stewards
• Ensure Data Governance Processes are well understood and adhered to by the Data Squads (Data owners, stewards and custodians).

People/Teams/Stakeholder management

• Work with SMEs to perform business requirements analysis for business rules, business processes and documents associated with population, maintenance and completeness of metadata
• Work with technical and business stakeholders to define, maintain, and support application, business glossary, business intelligence, data integration, data modelling, and database management resources in Collibra
• Assist the Marketing Head of Data (DGAME) in driving Office of Data Management initiatives
• Provide periodic status reports and updates on key business partners’ progress towards implementing metadata management
• As a knowledge management coordinator, assist and guide business owners in understanding and using Collibra, designing and defining the customer experience in Collibra

Qualifications
-Preferred skills & experience:

• Good tactical understanding of Data Governance and change management processes.
• Experience and knowledge of Collibra implementation and driving adoption.
• Self-motivated and able to handle tasks with minimal supervision.
• Capable of effectively managing upwards by proactively communicating status updates and maintaining consistent progress without day-to-day supervision.
• Capable to manage Data Governance backlog.
• Superior interpersonal skills both oral and written, especially with respect to driving adoption and enforcing Data Governance policy and standards.
• Excellent relationship management and Stakeholder Management skills - Pro-active & responsive.
• Experienced in working directly with technical and non-technical professionals.

Preferred Business Experience:

Experience of working in Data Management functions for Commodities, Trading or Oil & Gas space.

Additional Information
-Who We Are

Anglo American is a global diversified mining business. Our portfolio of world-class mining operations provides the metals and minerals that make modern life possible. We use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and mine, process, move and market our products to our customers around the world.

As a responsible miner – of diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore, coal and nickel – we are the custodians of what are precious natural resources. We work together with our key partners and stakeholders to unlock the sustainable value that those resources represent for our shareholders, the communities and countries in which we operate and for society at large. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Amazing opportunities for learning and growth - from technical training to leadership programs, we bring out the best in our people
• We’re a large, successful multinational company and there are plenty of opportunities internally to move onwards and upwards too

Inclusion and Diversity

Anglo American is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are and provide equality of opportunity so that everyone can fulfil their potential.

How To Apply

To apply for this role, please complete our online application form. You will have the opportunity to upload your CV and other relevant documentation as part of this process.

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