Data Steward - Toronto, Canada - Questrade Financial Group

Questrade Financial Group

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Questrade Financial Group (QFG) of Companies is committed to helping our customers become much more financially successful and secure.

We are everything a traditional financial institution is not. At QFG, you will be constantly moving forward, bringing the future of fintech into existence. You will be a part of a collaborative team that cares deeply about our mission and each other. Your team members will help you conquer challenges, push boundaries and discover what you are truly capable of.

This is a place where you can explore, discover and learn with continuous growth.

As a diverse and inclusive place to work, there are flexible working arrangements so you can unleash your creativity and curiosity with no limits.

If you share the same sense of infinite possibility, come shape your future at Questrade.

What's in it for you as an employee of QFG?

Health & wellbeing resources and programs
Paid vacation, personal, and sick days for worklife balance
Competitive compensation and benefits packages
Hybrid and flexible work arrangements
Career growth and development opportunities
Opportunities to contribute to community causes
Work with diverse team members in an inclusive and collaborative environment

We're looking for our next Data Steward. Could It Be You?
As a Data Steward, you will be responsible for maintaining the quality, accuracy and integrity of our data assets.

You will collaborate extensively with various teams and use w existing data management systems and processes to maintain high data quality within their data domain so that the data can effectively support the business processes.

The person in this role interacts with multiple stakeholders and data owners to enact practices directed at improving and maintaining Customer Master data.

Need more details? Keep reading

In this role, responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Data Management and Hygiene:

Manage and maintain key data assets, ensuring data quality, accuracy and consistency across systems and databases
Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to develop and implement data management policies, procedures and best practices
Perform data hygiene and cleaning tasks, such as identifying and correcting data entry errors, duplicates, or inconsistencies
Develop and maintain data dictionaries, metadata and data lineage documentation to enhance understanding and visibility of the data landscape.
Work closely with data engineering and analytics teams to design and implement data validation rules, data quality checks, and monitoring processes.
Educate and train colleagues on data management best practices and the importance of data quality
Continuously evaluate and recommend improvements to data management processes and tools to support growth and datadriven objectives
Assist with adhoc data investigations for the investing product team, providing insights and recommendations based on analysis to support a datadriven culture

Team Support and Collaboration:

Being a forwardthinking technologist who is continuously researching new approaches to problems and discussing them with others in a productive manner, in a community of practice setting.
Meeting regularly and interact productively with a diverse team of business stakeholders, user interface and experience designers, architects, engineers as needed to elicit, define, analyze and document requirements and principles for new projects and data products.
Providing coaching to other team members to assist them with technical challenges and assignments.
Ensuring timely escalation of issues that are blocking oneself or the team.
Contributing to defining and implementing best practices, standards and procedures including quality and delivery methodologies.
Soliciting and participating in code reviews and unit testing practices.
Sharing knowledge and lessons learned with others in the organization.

So are YOU our next Data Steward? You are if you

Are a Graduate in business management computer science, information technology management or equivalent
Have 2+ years of data related working experience with data management tools and practices
Have experience dealing with data quality issues, understanding of data quality issues types
Are passionate about data and treating it as a valuable for organization asset
Are curious and able to investigate data
Have excellent communication skills
Are proficient In SQL and experience working with various databases, such as relational, NoSQL or cloudbased databases. Knowledge of T-SQL
Have familiarity with data integration, ETL processes and data warehousing concepts.
Have good decisionmaking skills and able to identify critical issues with ease and act on them
Are constructive, optimistic and solutionoriented
Are detailoriented with strong analytical and problemsolving skills
Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain complex