Manager Data Governance

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We are Optimum, a leader in the fast-paced world of connectivity, and we're on the hunt for enthusiastic professionals to join our team! We understand that connectivity isn't just a luxury anymore - it's a necessity that empowers lives, fuels businesses, and drives innovation. A career at Optimum means you'll be enabling progress and enhancing lives by providing reliable, high-speed connectivity solutions that keep the world connected. We owe our success to our amazing product, commitment to our people and the connections we make in every community.
If you are resourceful, collaborative, team-oriented and passionate about delivering consistent excellence, Optimum is the Company for you!
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Job Summary
This role will be responsible for advancing our Data Governance maturity across the organization. This role will require extensive collaboration across the Data, Business Intelligence, Data Science, and Machine Learning organizations, providing Platform support, training and helping to transform us into an industry-leading, data-driven organization.
This is a "hands-on" role and will require the ability to dive into technical solutions as well as collaborate with and influence stakeholders across the company. We are a small team that has an outsized by providing services that make others more effective. We are relentlessly focused on great user experiences, automation and processes that scale and deliver value. While this is an Individual Contributor role - there is the possibility to become a people leader in the future.
Responsibilities

• Be a Data Governance champion - helping to drive adoption through efforts such as lunch and learns, training, and newsletters.
• Driving continuous improvement across our environment - one day your work might include documenting metadata, another devising improved Data Quality tests/processes and another adding KPIs/Metrics to our semantic layer.
• Supporting our Data Quality(dbt/Elementary) and Active Metadata (Atlan) Platforms.
• Closely partner and collaborate across all facets of the Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Analytics to develop standards and processes that ensure a high level of Data Quality using our tech stack (dbt, BigQuery, Astronomer, ThoughtSpot, Tableau, MicroStrategy, other GCP Services).
• Help to develop the roadmap for Data Governance processes and tools that allow the DnA organization to deliver value quickly and at scale.
• Coordinating our response to incidents and ensuring that responding teams address the root cause of any issues.
• Simplify complex concepts to stakeholders to promote the understanding of the value of Data Governance and to promote excitement around the discipline.
• Monitor our Data Help Channel for questions where we can help with what we have today as well as identify opportunities for the future.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant employment experience as a Data Engineer or Analyst.
• Go-getter. We want someone that continuously looks for opportunities and takes the initiative to execute.
• A desire to support others - we are Robin to our peer's Batman.
• A willingness to be hands-on with work - whether it be technical in nature or trying to truly understand the business.
• Strong presentation and communication skills with the ability to summarize findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• A willingness to tolerate bad dad jokes (or tell better ones).

Preferred

• Preferred expertise in designing and implementing data governance frameworks(DMBOK) and EDM solutions, with strong project management skills.
• Experience with a cloud-based environment, such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Microsoft Azure
• Proven ability to collaborate with and build effective business partnerships at various levels of the organization.
• Hands-on approach to learning the Altice USA business to quickly and thoughtfully augment the strategic value of a unified Governance function.
• Programming experience. We prefer Python.
• SQL experience. The stronger, the better!
• Good generalist experience, ideally working with all layers in the tech stack. If you're "good" in various technologies, we should talk.

At Optimum, we're fueled by our four core pillars: Taking Ownership, Upholding Transparency, Creating Community, and Demonstrating Expertise. Our commitment to empowering employees to take responsibility and embrace proactive problem-solving underpins Taking Ownership. Upholding Transparency is at the core of our culture, with open and honest communication fostering trust among our dedicated team and loyal customers. Creating Community is more than a goal; it's our daily commitment to fostering an environment of collaboration, innovation, and positivity. Demonstrating expertise is a promise we uphold through continuous learning and engagement with our customers to consistently deliver top-quality products and services. These pillars not only shape our culture but define Optimum as a place of excellence, trustworthiness, and thriving community, and we invite you to be a part of our journey.
If you have the drive to succeed and are ready to embark on a thrilling career, seize this opportunity today, and join our winning team, so together, we'll shape the future of connectivity.
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This position is identified as being performed in/or reporting to company operations in New York State. Salary ranges are supplied in compliance with New York State law. Pay is competitive and based on a number of job-related factors, including skills and experience. The starting pay rate/range at time of hire for this position in the posted location is $123,379.00 - $175,000 / year. The rate/range provided herein is the anticipated pay at the time of hire, and does not reflect future job opportunity.
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