Job Role: Data Stewards

Location: Bentonville, AR (Onsite)

Contract: W2 role

Position Summary:

Walmart seeks a highly experienced Principal Data Steward to lead our data governance initiatives within the Customer Insights and Strategy team. This role will ensure customer data assets' accuracy, quality, and security and align data management practices with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Data Governance Leadership:

- Champion a business-driven approach to Data Governance by collaborating with stakeholders in the Customer Insights and Strategy team to define critical customer data elements, reports, and KPIs.

- Develop and implement data governance frameworks, policies, and standards tailored for customer analytics to ensure data integrity and quality.

- Advocate for data governance best practices and foster a culture of data stewardship within the Customer Insights and Strategy team.

- Lead efforts to ensure data sourced and provisioned meet all required data quality standards, leveraging continuous improvement methodologies.

2. Technical Data Stewardship:

- Define the technical assets critical to customer analytics processes, establish data lineage, and define workflows to manage customer data effectively.

- Assess data quality baselines and manage a data quality action plan to address critical issues with customer data elements.

- Implement Data Quality strategies and tools, producing dashboards and reports to effectively monitor and communicate Data Quality metrics.

3. Stakeholder Engagement and Communication:

- Liaise with senior management and stakeholders to support the strategic vision for data governance and customer analytics.

- Communicate effectively across different audiences, conveying clear insights and recommendations on data quality and governance.

4. Risk Management and Compliance:

- Appropriately assess risks related to data governance decisions, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies.

- Report Data Quality issues through established processes, contributing to the overall governance and risk management framework.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in information management, Computer Science, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.

- 8+ years of experience in data management and governance or a related role focusing on customer data analytics.

- Comprehensive understanding of Data Governance, Data Quality, and industry best practices, particularly within the retail or consumer industry.

- Experience with data management tools and technologies (e.g., Collibra).

- Applied experience with cloud data solutions; familiarity with Google Cloud Platform.

- Applied experience with Agile frameworks is a plus.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills.

- Excellent communication, leadership, and project management skills.

- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and prioritize tasks in a dynamic environment.

- Retail marketing industry experience or other highly regulated industry experience is a plus.