Lead Data Steward
Axpo Group
Remoto
We are currently in the middle of a migration to Databricks on Azure, making this a unique opportunity to shape governance from the ground up and ensure the new platform is built with quality, security and compliance at its core.
Key Responsibilities
- Define the data governance framework, including policies, standards and compliance obligations across the organisation;
- Define data security standards and access control policies, including classification-based access rules and retention and lifecycle criteria.
- Define the data stewardship operating model, including roles, responsibilities, escalation paths and governance procedures across data domains.
- Own data classification and ownership assignment, ensuring every data asset has a defined owner, steward and classification.
- Define data quality rules, thresholds and SLA standards, and oversee their implementation and monitoring by the engineering team and Junior Data Steward.
- Lead the audit of the existing governance framework and define the roadmap for aligning practices with the new Databricks on Azure platform.
- Work closely with the Data Architect and Data Engineers to reflect governance requirements in platform design and validate that what is built matches what was defined.
- Define documentation standards for data assets, including data dictionary, business glossary and data contracts.
- Coordinate with business and analytics teams to identify data owners and ensure stewardship responsibilities are understood.
- Report on governance health to the Head of IT, including data quality trends, policy coverage and stewardship maturity.
- Manage and develop the Junior Data Steward.
- Thoroughness, attention to detail and strong analytical skills;
- Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work across technical and business teams and translate governance concepts clearly for non-technical stakeholders;
- A mindset focused on continuous improvement and on building governance practices that people actually follow.
- Experience in the utilities sector is a plus (not mandatory);
- Experience working on or alongside a data platform migration;
- Understanding of data pipeline concepts, including batch and streaming ingestion, to define governance requirements at the data source;
- Understanding of data lake and data warehouse architectural patterns;
- Experience with data cataloguing tools such as Unity Catalog, Collibra, Alation or Purview.
- Team management and development of junior roles;
- Collaboration with external partners and internal stakeholders (technical and non-technical).
Education / Further Education
- Software Engineering, Data Management, Information Systems or similar.
- Python literacy: able to read and review scripts;
- Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Airflow or Prefect;
- Solid experience in data governance and data stewardship, including defining policies, ownership frameworks, classification standards, access control rules and data quality standards;
- Experience defining data security, compliance and retention policies in an organisational context;
- Hands-on experience with Databricks on Azure and Unity Catalog: able to navigate the platform, review access grants, catalogue structures and lineage configurations, and validate that governance requirements are correctly implemented;
- Strong SQL skills for querying, validating and reviewing data models and quality rules.
- Portuguese (Native);
- English (Advanced);
- Spanish (Basic Skills).
- Health and Life insurance
- Birthday day off
- Team building events
- Office snacks on Fridays
- 24-hour psychological support line
- Discounted gym memberships
- Great Place to Work environment and other employee benefits
Work type: Full time, 100% in the office
We look forward to welcoming you!
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