Data Steward

Job Title: Data Governance Analyst / Data Steward (Contract)

Location: Toronto, ON / London, ON (Hybrid - 3 days onsite)

Contract Duration: Initial 6-month contract with strong potential for extension

Overview

We are seeking a Data Governance Analyst to support enterprise-wide data governance, metadata management, and data quality initiatives. The successful candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, data owners, technology teams, and governance committees to establish data standards, improve data quality, maintain governance artifacts, and drive adoption of data governance best practices across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

Data Governance & Stewardship

• Support the implementation and ongoing operation of the enterprise Data Governance framework.
• Partner with business and technical stakeholders to define and maintain Data Owner, Data Steward, and Data Custodian responsibilities.
• Facilitate governance forums, working groups, and decision-making processes.
• Develop and maintain data governance policies, standards, procedures, and controls.
• Maintain governance artifacts such as business glossaries, ownership matrices, issue logs, and KPI reporting.

Metadata Management & Data Catalog

• Collaborate with business and technology teams to gather and document business and technical metadata.
• Create and maintain business glossary terms, data definitions, critical data elements (CDEs), classifications, and ownership information.
• Support enterprise data catalog adoption and metadata enrichment initiatives.
• Validate relationships between business definitions, source systems, data models, and reporting assets.
• Contribute to data lineage documentation and maintenance activities.

Data Quality Management

• Work with stakeholders to define, document, and implement data quality rules and standards.
• Support data profiling activities and identification of data quality issues.
• Establish and monitor data quality metrics including accuracy, completeness, consistency, validity, timeliness, and uniqueness.
• Coordinate remediation efforts with business and technology teams.
• Track issues, root causes, remediation plans, ownership, and resolution status.
• Assist in developing data quality dashboards, scorecards, and reporting.

Data Privacy & Data Controls

• Support classification of sensitive, confidential, personal, and regulated data.
• Collaborate with Privacy, Security, Legal, Risk, and Compliance teams to align governance requirements.
• Document data access, retention, usage, and protection requirements.
• Identify and help address governance, compliance, and control gaps throughout the data lifecycle.

Required Qualifications

• 3-7+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, Metadata Management, Data Quality, Master Data Management (MDM), Business Analysis, or related data disciplines.
• Strong understanding of data governance principles, frameworks, and best practices.
• Experience developing and maintaining business glossaries, data dictionaries, metadata repositories, and governance documentation.
• Knowledge of data quality management concepts, controls, and monitoring techniques.
• Ability to work effectively with both business and technology stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience supporting enterprise data catalog and metadata management initiatives is highly preferred.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with data governance and metadata management tools such as Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, or similar platforms.
• Knowledge of data lineage, data classification, data privacy, and regulatory compliance concepts.
• Familiarity with data warehousing, analytics, reporting environments, and data management frameworks (e.g., DAMA-DMBOK).
• Experience working in large enterprise or regulated environments.