Enterprise Data Steward

Role Summary

As an Enterprise Data Steward at Elanco, responsible for HR Master Data, you will be a vital champion for our most critical data assets, playing a pivotal role in ensuring the quality, integrity, and usability of those assets. Reporting to the Enterprise Data Office, you will be accountable for the HR domain and will be responsible for ensuring its quality, integrity, and business value. The role will partner closely with business stakeholders, including procurement and IT, helping to implement and uphold data governance policies and standards. This role is perfect for a detail-oriented professional with deep business knowledge who can act as the crucial link between business stakeholders and IT to ensure our data is trusted, understood, and used effectively.

Responsibilities

• Data Domain Ownership: Act as the primary owner and subject matter expert for a specific domain of enterprise data, responsible for its overall quality and governance.
• Define and Document: Collaborate with business and technical teams to define and document critical data elements, business rules, and data standards in the enterprise data catalogue.
• Manage Data Quality: Proactively monitor the quality of data within your domain, establish data quality rules and metrics, and lead root-cause analysis to resolve data issues.
• Govern Data Access: Review and approve requests for access to data in your domain, ensuring compliance with Elanco’s data governance policies and security standards.
• Drive Issue Resolution: Triage and manage data-related issues, working with data producers and consumers to ensure timely and effective remediation.
• Data Lifecycle Management: Oversee the data lifecycle for critical data assets, from creation and acquisition to usage, archival, and eventual disposal. Ensure compliance with data retention policies and regulatory requirements.
• Champion Data Literacy: Promote the proper use and understanding of data within your business area and across the enterprise, acting as a key resource and advocate for data-driven decision-making.
• Collaborate with Governance Bodies: Participate in and provide input to the Data Council and Data Governance Committee, representing the needs and status of your specific data domain and the impact of the data you oversee across the enterprise.
• Serve the business: Actively contribute to the design and evolution of Elanco's data architecture, translating business requirements and strategic priorities into actionable data model and integration specifications. This includes proactively identifying opportunities to leverage data assets and architectural improvements to drive innovation and achieve Elanco's strategic business objectives.
• Measure Impact & Success: Collaborate with business and IT to define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) that demonstrate the business value and impact of data quality and architectural improvements on strategic outcomes.
• Champion Best Practices: Stay abreast of industry best practices and emerging technologies in data management and architecture, recommending innovative solutions to enhance Elanco's data capabilities.

Qualifications

• Required: A Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data, Process, or a related field is preferred.
• Required: 7+ years of deep knowledge and experience in a stewarding HR data, preferably at the enterprise level, including configuration and/or integration experience with at least one major enterprise HRIS data system (e.g., Workday, Oracle). Technical knowledge and configuration/integration experience with both Workday and SAP is preferred.
• Required: Understanding of data governance principles, including data quality, metadata management, and data stewardship.
• Required: Experience with data cataloguing tools (e.g., Collibra) and data quality management software.
• Required: Analytical mindset with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to investigate complex data issues and identify root causes.
• Preferred: Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively and influence stakeholders across different business and technical teams.
• Preferred: Attention to detail and a highly organized approach to managing data definitions, standards, and quality.
• Preferred: Process-oriented with experience in process improvement and the ability to think systematically about how data flows through the organization.
• Preferred: Data-driven attitude with foundational understanding of data architecture principles, including data modeling, integration patterns, and data platform concepts, and the ability to articulate how these support business strategy.
• Preferred: Ability to facilitate resolution of data discrepancies, escalating complex problems to appropriate data governance bodies or IT teams when necessary.

Additional Requirements

• Travel: Minimal
• Location: Global Elanco Headquarters – Indianapolis, IN – Hybrid Work Environment