Data Catalogue - Analyst

Job Title: Data Catalogue Analyst

Career Leve : C3

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to make a significant impact in the world of data management? As a Data Catalogue Analyst, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring that data is findable, accessible, and fit for use across various business units. You'll be responsible for capturing metadata and developing our data catalogue, supporting the Commercial and Enabling Units business areas. This is your chance to contribute to meaningful work that drives excellence and breakthroughs.

Accountabilities:

• Support the Data Catalogue Principal to define Information Asset Registers across business areas to help profile information risk/value
• Participate in projects to mitigate and control identified priority risk areas
• Take responsibility for nominated markets/business areas, develop domain knowledge and leverage internal customer relationships to respond to localised use cases
• Act as point of contact for nominated business areas or markets
• Support initiatives to enhance the reusability and transparency of our data by making it available in our global data catalogue
• Support the capture of user requirements for functionality and usability, and document technical requirements
• Work with IT partners to capture metadata for relevant data sets and lineage, and populate the catalogue
• Work with data stewards and business users to enrich catalogue entries with business data dictionary, business rules, glossaries
• Complete monitoring controls to assure metadata quality remains at a high level
• Support catalogue principles and data governance leads for tool evaluation and UAT

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Demonstrable experience of working in a data management, data governance or data engineering domain
• Strong business and system analysis skills
• Demonstrable experience with Data Catalogue, Search and Automation software (Collibra, Informatica, Talend etc)
• Ability to interpret and communicate technical information into business language and in alignment with AZ business
• Solid grasp of metadata harvesting methodologies and ability to create business and technical metadata sets.
• Strong engagement, communication and collaborator management skills, including excellent organizational, presentation and influencing skills
• High level of proficiency with common business applications (Excel, Visio, Word, PowerPoint & SAP business user)

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Demonstrable experience of working with Commercial or Finance data and systems (Veeva, Reltio, SAP) and consumption
• Domain knowledge of life sciences/pharmaceuticals; manufacturing; corporate finance; or sales & marketing
• Experience with data quality and profiling software
• Experience of working in a complex, diverse global organization

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AstraZeneca offers an environment where you can apply your skills to genuinely impact patients' lives. With a focus on innovation and growth, you'll be part of a team that challenges norms and embraces intelligent risks. Our collaborative community thrives on sharing knowledge and celebrating successes together. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn from diverse perspectives, drive change, and contribute to our digital transformation journey.

Ready to take the next step in your career? Apply now and become a key player in shaping the future at AstraZeneca!