Data Governance Specialist

Company Overview

Recognized as a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Top Workplace for 12 consecutive years, including three years of being honored as number one! Join us at West Bend, where we believe that our associates are our greatest asset. We hire talented individuals who are conscientious, dedicated, customer focused, and able to build lasting relationships. We create and maintain an environment where you feel a sense of belonging and appreciation. Your diversity of thought, experience, and knowledge are valued. We’re committed to fostering a welcoming culture, offering you opportunities for meaningful work and professional growth. More than a workplace, we celebrate our successes and take pride in serving our communities.

Job Summary

Are you passionate about data governance and looking to make a meaningful impact in a dynamic organization? As a Data Governance Specialist, you’ll play a key role in advancing our data maturity across the enterprise. You’ll leverage your expertise to implement and embed a data governance framework across our data ecosystem, leverage and extend our data governance platform, and promote data literacy.  We’re looking for someone who excels at communication and has a history of success in data governance efforts.  Join our team at a company consistently recognized as a top place to work. We’re excited to meet talented candidates ready to bring their skills and enthusiasm to our journey. Apply today and become part of an organization committed to excellence in every way!

"This position offers a flexible hybrid work schedule, combining remote work with in-person collaboration. This role can be based out of our West Bend or Madison offices. Fully remote candidates will not be considered at this time."

Responsibilities & Qualifications

• Assist Data Owners, Data Stewards, business partners, technical staff, and other stakeholders with the Collibra data catalog, business glossaries, data definitions, and lineage.
• Embed and operationalize data governance policies, procedures, and standards across the enterprise.
• Collaborate with legal, compliance, risk management, records management, information security, and other areas to understand requirements and ensure proper data security, privacy, access, and retention across the data lifecycle.
• Track the progress of enterprise-wide data governance initiatives with metrics and summarize results with dashboards.

Preferred Experience and Skills

• 5+ years of experience in data governance and areas such as metadata management, data lineage, reference data, data security, and master data management.
• Deep experience with Data Governance platforms and tools (Collibra strongly preferred).
• A background implementing data governance programs and embedding/operationalizing data governance for efficient data management.
• Experience with insurance data (especially property & casualty) strongly preferred.
• A proven ability to communicate data governance concepts effectively to both business and technical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage large complex projects or processes independently.

Preferred Education and Training

• Bachelor's degree in information management, information systems, data science, risk management & insurance, or similar.

EEO

West Bend provides equal employment opportunities to all associates and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, and promotion.