Job Description

Position Title: Data Governance Specialist
Line of Business: Capital Markets
Contract Duration: 12 months
Remote/Hybrid: Hybrid - 3 days a week in office - Weds mandatory
Location Address: 161 Bay St. 9th fl
Reason: Expansion of data governance program
What project will this contractor be working on? Enterprise-wide initiative on expanding and augment data governance program.

• Effectively manage relationships with Data Owners, Data Stewards and other data stakeholders in Capital Markets

• Effectively manage relationships with Data Custodians and other data stakeholders in technology.

• Effectively manage relationships with internal clients and stakeholders, including Senior Management in Front Office, as well as Legal, Compliance, Technology and Operations stakeholders.

• Effectively manage relationship with Enterprise Data and Record Management Office.

Responsibilities:
Reporting to the Data Governance Lead, the Data Specialist will be responsible for establishing data governance procedures, data quality metrics and rules, and managing metadata, data sharing and access logs for various data domains in conjunction with the business and within the parameters of the Capital Markets Program. The Data Specialist will be part of a centralized Data Governance Team in the CAO office of Capital Markets, and will work closely with Data Owners, Data Stewards, Data Custodians and all other data stakeholders in Capital Markets and Wealth Management divisions as well as the Enterprise Data and Records Management Office.
Data Governance

• Data Specialist, work with the Capital Markets Data Governance Lead, Data Owners and other stakeholders in order to define and implement data governance processes and practices to ensure alignment with the Enterprise Data Governance policy and the Capital Markets program.

• Champion Capital Markets data governance framework to enhance data governance practices in the organization and extend the framework where needed.

• Assist in identifying Critical Data Elements, review and agree on them with other data roles from business and technology.

• Develop business glossary content for Capital Market data domains and processes to create and maintain content.

• Collaborate with Data Stewards, Data Architects, Data Analysts and Business Analysts across Capital Markets to understand their requirements to expand Glossary definitions.

• Coordinate and attend data governance working groups to continuously review, maintain and enhance data governance procedures, processes and artefacts.

• Create and maintain the centralized data issue log by taking inputs from business data stewards and following up on progress of resolution.

• Create and maintain the centralized data quality rule repository and coordinate the definition of common data quality rules with inputs from business data stewards.

• Maintain the data quality dashboard for Capital Market Data domains by inputs from authoritative data source representatives.

• Document Data Custody Agreements and Data Sharing Risk Assessments between source and destination data sources by taking inputs from data stewards and data custodians, and seeking approval from data owners.

• Maintain all data access requests for analytical data sources in centralized data access logs and monitor data access expiry.

• Define data governance KPI metrics and maintain a data governance dashboard for data with inputs from Data Governance Working Groups and Data Governance Council.

• Create and facilitate high quality training and communication materials to promote Data Governance across Capital Markets

Must Have:
- 5 year\'s Data Governance experience or 5-8 years Business Analysis experience with investment products.
- Building data catalogues experience (Data Bricks or similar)
Nice to Have:
Nice to Have:
- Some familiarity with Capital Market products would be helpful (Foreign exchange, fixed income, SWAPS, Loans, mergers and acquisitions)
- Previous experience in data governance
- Investment terminology knowledge would be helpful
- Knowledge of trade reporting requirements (IIROC, etc.) is considered a key asset
- Experience with AGILE methodology is an asset.
- DCAM certification
Education and Certifications: DCAM certification asse