Business Data Steward - Chicago, IL, United States

Company Description

BLEND360 is an acclaimed, forward-thinking Data, Digital Marketing, & AI Solutions Company, dedicated to fueling remarkable outcomes for our Fortune 500 clients. Our trajectory is one of continuous expansion, emerging at the crossroads of cutting-edge analytics, data proficiency, technology, and digital marketing excellence.  

Job Description

Dynamic, Entrepreneurial Marketing Consulting Company is seeking a Business Data Steward to support our Fortune 100 financial services client’s MarTech Data Collection & Measurement organization.  The individual will support new Data Governance & Monitoring initiatives to further elevate analytical capabilities in marketing campaign management, processes, and underlaying data. 

This role will sit within an innovative team and will collaborate with stakeholders to solve complex data governance challenges.  The role focuses on data collected from our client’s websites and mobile apps by analytics and 3rd party tags—the foundational value driver of the customer marketing ecosystem.

As a Business Data Steward, you will be responsible for understanding analytics and 3rd party tag data needs, establishing and enforcing data compliance standards and processes, and supporting data management and data governance initiatives throughout the MarTech data ecosystem.  You will partner with business, technology, analytics, compliance, and business risk teams to ensure that data is collected and shared in compliance with laws and regulations.  Additionally, you will actively manage and escalate risk and customer-impacting issues to management.  As an analytics and 3rd party tag data subject matter expert, you must understand both technical and business process context of the data, as well as online data privacy implications.

The Details:

• Location: Fully remote (Chicago area preferred)
• Duration: 12-month consulting role with possible conversion to hire
• Benefits:  We do offer benefits to our full-time consultants, including Health, Vision, Dental, 401K plan, Life Insurance, Pretax Commuter Benefits, and an incredibly supportive team cheering you on!

What you’ll do:

• Support data collection and federation initiatives by collaborating to enhance and enforce compliance processes, data governance and monitoring standards.
• Ensure data collection and federation changes are managed with appropriate impact analysis and communications to potentially impacted areas.
• Attend Data Steward meetings as a Key stakeholder in MarTech Data Collection & Measurement.
• Participate in the oversight process, ensuring accuracy of collected and shared data, which includes querying and reviewing clickstream data.
• Coordinate with upstream and downstream teams utilizing the data and when necessary, identify correct business SMEs to engage in discussions.
• Execute controls and maintains relevant data/system/business process documentation and policy updates.
• Bridge the gap between business and analytics environments and enriches data in the analytics environment with business process definition.
• Report progress and statuses to management.  Oversee timely support and resolution as needed.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Analytics, Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience in data collection or MarTech in a data stewardship, analytics, marketing or technical role, or related field.
• In lieu of a degree, 10+ years of experience Data Management concepts including metadata management, Data Quality, Data Governance, and Data Modeling.
• Experience gathering data requirements and performing complex data analysis is required.
• Ability to engage effectively with technical and analytics partners, understand business data requirements and translate to actionable solutions is key.
• Experience driving adoption of data capabilities across technology groups and enabling data literacy required.

Desired Skills:

• Knowledge of data privacy regulations such as CCPA and GDPR.
• 6+ years of experience in Information Management and Data Analysis.

Additional Information

This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship. 

The starting pay range for this role is $60.00 - $65.00 per hour. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent on several factors including but not limited to relevant experience, skills, certifications, training, and location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range and determining factors for compensation are considered for each individual circumstance. BLEND360 also offers a competitive benefits program to meet the health and financial well-being of our team and their families. You can look forward to a range of benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401K, PTO, commuter benefits, spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, and EAPs.

A diverse workforce is a strong workforce
To deliver growth at BLEND360 and for our clients, we believe as a Talent Solutions Company, we have a responsibility and unique opportunity to positively impact the workforce. Diversity has played a critical role in our history, our growth, and continues to have a profound impact on our success.  We are determined to have equality in the workplace, within our team and as an extension of our clients’ team.

BLEND360 is an equal opportunity employer.