Data Steward, Assistant Vice President

State Street is a global financial services company serving institutional investors, focusing on risk management, performance, and profitability. The role is within the Enterprise Reference Data / Master Data Management (MDM) team based in Poland.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including presentation skills.
• Excellent analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong cultural awareness and ability to operate in diverse and dynamic business environments.
• Fluency in English (required); other European languages are a plus.
• Ability to understand Data Models and Data Taxonomies in the context of reference data.
• Solid understanding of Data Management and Data Quality industry best practices.
• Prior Data Steward experience and/or background in Data Governance preferred.
• Experience managing large reference data sets.
• Ability to articulate business requirements and bring them to fruition.
• Experience in (re)designing processes and controls.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, MIS, Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
• 5-10 years of experience, preferably in the financial/financial services industry.
• Detailed knowledge of reference data including legal entity data is a plus.

• Act as the primary Data Steward for Enterprise Reference Data / Master Data Management applications, managing data quality and asset use.
• Maintain business metadata within the Data Catalog (Collibra) and own the MDM Data Dictionary.
• Support Business Owners in implementing and documenting data quality controls; verify operational controls and drive resolution of data quality issues.
• Manage relationships between data providers and consumers; ensure C/P documents are accurate and timely.
• Understand impacts to regulatory reporting, risk, operations, and other processes.
• Capture and maintain technical metadata to record data lineage and traceability; validate and maintain current lineage information within the Data Catalog.
• Participate in data integration and transformation projects ensuring appropriate data sources and quality controls.
• Act as first point of contact for escalations or queries from business partners.
• Utilize industry and regulatory knowledge to support State Street’s regulatory reporting initiatives and find resolutions.
• Plan, organize, and oversee execution of system enhancements with data impact.
• Manage daily operations for State Street’s subsidiaries and branches; participate in Legal Entity Oversight Committee meetings.
• Support operationalization of key release items from MDM Roadmap to meet regulatory commitments and MDM adoption evolution.
• Drive ongoing MDM modernization efforts, including decommissioning ESP, expanding integration choices, and implementing new data integrations into MDM.

The role requires a minimum of three days per week working from the office in a hybrid model.