Lead Data Steward, Enforcement

The Lead Data Steward in the Enforcement Department is responsible for utilizing relevant data expertise and drives coordination by establishing processes for how stewards execute their activities (the specific work steps, tools used, etc.), how they communicate their actions to their peer stewards and other business users/roles.

The position works closely with key partners across the organization in advocating for and promoting education of staff on data access, literacy, stewardship and governance to senior management, technology, other data and analytics teams across FINRA.

The data steward also helps the data stewards in the Data Stewardship Program to interpret policies created by the Board with the goal of establishing clarity and quality in policy enactment, and executing the strategy on leveraging data and intelligence to benefit the regulatory functions performed throughout the organization.

Essential Job Functions:


* Represent enterprise reference and cross-domain data and utilize subject matter expertise to serve on and facilitate discussions on several data-related working groups, committees, business cases and other projects/initiatives.


* Partner with the Enterprise Data Privacy office as needed to analyze industry data protection and privacy trends, new protection and privacy regulatory requirements and as a result, potential new stewardship activities along with collaboration to monitor and assess organizational data for value, potential risk and ethical implications of using or not using data.


* Partner with the Cyber & information Security office (CISO) to understand and influence the execution of data security frameworks as the CISO is the first line of defense for security


* Execute data protection and security policies with the data engineering teams


* Promote data awareness, drive evolution of data and creation of cross-domain and complex datasets


* Facilitate workshops as required to obtain input from multiple Information Managers, Records Managers, Business Data Stewards, and Data Experts of complex derived data sets across departments


* Document assumptions and risks, early in design cycles, for new complex derived/cross domain data sets intended to be shared as enterprise resources


* identify data quality and architectural dependencies resulting from data transformations between source data and resulting derived data sets


* Design and review requirements for complex derived/cross domain datasets based on workshops and obtain approval for execution, from the business data stewards


* Ensure metadata and data consistency, track data usage, and monitor outcomes of these activities


* Ensure ongoing accuracy and completeness of the business units’ and FINRA’s data catalog including identification of critical data sets and data attributes.


* Inventory, review, and assess, shared derived data sets and create Dashboards and metrics to measure metadata management ...