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Job Description
At our company, we aspire to be the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company. We're at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions that advance the prevention and treatment of diseases in people and animals. As a Senior Data Governance Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality of metadata management, cataloguing, and data governance of our data across all domains, directly influencing patients who use our life-saving products. If you are passionate about data governance and cataloguing and want to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.
Responsibilities
- Set up and maintain the Collibra Data Governance Centre (DGC) environment, including community and domain structure, views, diagrams, and dashboards.
- Implement metamodel changes through releases and facilitate ingestions from required source systems.
- Engage in tool maintenance and cleaning activities to ensure a positive user experience.
- Train and support Metadata Stewards and other divisional stakeholders.
- Provide ad-hoc demos to stakeholders to enhance understanding and usage of data governance tools.
- Create and maintain Collibra DGC and data governance-related documentation, best practices, and training materials.
- Conduct impact analyses for integrated systems and ensure compliance with cataloguing and best practices.
- Analyze new connector implementation requirements.
- Inform about new DGC Collibra functionalities and updates.
- Design and develop workflows to help stewards and users with their cataloguing journey.
- Manage business and technical metadata in Collibra to ensure accuracy, consistency, and accessibility.
- Design, implement, and manage metamodel to enhance metadata quality and standardization.
- Develop and maintain standards for data metadata quality metrics and monitor performance.
- Collect and analyze divisional and Chief Data and Analytics Office (CDAO) requirements for effective data governance and cataloguing application.
- Communicate with divisional and CDAO stakeholders to ensure alignment of data governance standards and cataloguing while focusing on user experience.
- Provide an implementation framework for cataloguing and data governance requirements and assign appropriate roles.
Qualifications
Required
- Proficiency in using Collibra Data Catalog for data governance activities. Knowledge of any data catalogue is a must-have (i.e. Collibra, Ataccama, Dawiso, Informatica, Alation etc.)
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience in a data governance role.
- Expertise in Metadata management and implementing metadata cataloging processes.
- Proven experience in supporting the design and implementation of data governance frameworks, policies, and procedures.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including conducting training sessions and demos to senior management.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Applications, mainly Excel.
- Fluent in English both spoken and written.
- Team spirit and cooperative nature.
Nice to have
- Experience in developing and maintaining governance standards.
- Understanding of reference and master data management and governance.
- Advanced degree in a related field.
- Collibra Ranger Certification.
- Experience in Agile using JIRA.
- Experience in a research-intensive biopharmaceutical company.
- Knowledge of Groovy, SQL, HTML.
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Required Skills:
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About Merck & Co.
Global pharmaceutical company known for oncology, vaccines, and infectious disease treatments. Headquartered in Rahway, NJ.