Position Summary:

As a Data Governance Steward you will assist in the implementation and operation of the company’s Enterprise Data Governance Program. You will be responsible for the assets of a defined data subject area and work to maintain metadata for the subject area. This position collaborates with other departments to ensure data consistency and quality throughout the organization and partners with business and technical subject matter experts to maintain standardization of metadata through best practices.

State specific pay scales for this role are as follows:

$83,394.77 to $154, 017.38  (CA, NJ, NY, WA, HI, AK, MD, CT, RI, MA)

$75,813.00 to $140,015.79(NV, OR, AZ, CO, WY, TX, ND, MN, MO, IL, WI, FL, GA, MI, OH, VA, PA, DE, VT, NH, ME)

$68,232.09 to $126,014.21  (UT, ID, MT, NM, SD, NE, KS, OK, IA, AR, LA, MS, AL, TN, KY, IN, SC, NC, WV)

The expected base salary for this position will vary depending on a number of factors, including relevant experience, skills and location.

Essential Job Functions:

• Maintain relationship and collaborate with assigned business unit data owners and subject matter experts
• Execute on the vision, roadmap, and data lifecycle for the data subject areas over which the role is responsible
• Create and maintain data quality monitoring to ensure data accuracy, completeness and consistency.
• Help establish and develop the Data Steward capability in the assigned subject area
• Partner with data architects and business SMEs to maintain the Business Glossaries, Data Dictionaries, Data Lineage, and Report Catalogs in the Atlan for the assigned subject area
• Help coordinate and manage the work queue in the Reltio Master Data Management tool, to ensure high quality identity resolution for enterprise data
• Embody data standards and best practices that fulfill enterprise data policies
• Assist in providing reporting and metric measurement to the Data Governance Council and business partners
• Lead incident resolution and problem management for data issues in the assigned subject area
• Participate in projects and ongoing activities to support Enterprise Data Governance objectives
• Demonstrate Mercury's core values
• Other functions may be assigned

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or other quantitative discipline with a focus on data usage and critical thinking is required

Experience:

• Two (2)+ years working in data-related fields
• Two (2)+ years working in Data Governance or Data Stewardship roles
• Experience with data visualization software helpful (Power BI, R/Python, Excel, etc.)
• Experience working in a centralized data governance/ quality team helpful
• Experience writing complex SQL for data analysis, validation and DQ monitoring.

Preferred Experience:

• 3+ years experience with data observability highly desired  
• Understanding of Data Quality principles, with hands-on experience setting up data quality monitoring using tools such as Great Expectations, dbt, Monte Carlo, and others.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in data analysis and assessment using SQL
  Experience of data modeling and/ or working in DBT

Knowledge and Skills:

• Familiarity with all things data including data stewardship, data quality, data models, SQL. Cloud data (AWS Redshift preferred)
• Data Catalog tool experience beneficial (Atlan/ Alation etc.)
• Knowledge of Property and Casualty Insurance beneficial
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams
• Experience with data profiling, and developing data quality validations
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in written form, with technical and non-technical staff
• Detail oriented and well-organized
• Ability to routinely interact with multiple levels of the organization including the executive level
• Ability to work with the data warehouse users, IT Business Analysts, and developers

Why choose a career at Mercury?

At Mercury, we have been guided by our purpose to help people reduce risk and overcome unexpected events for more than 60 years. We are one team with a common goal to help others. Everyone needs insurance and we can’t imagine a world without it.

Our team will encourage you to grow, make time to have fun, and work together to make great things happen. We embrace the strengths and values of each team member. We believe in having diverse perspectives where everyone is included, to serve customers from all walks of life.

We care about our people, and we mean it. We reward our talented professionals with a competitive salary, bonus potential, and a variety of benefits to help our team members reach their health, retirement, and professional goals.

Learn more about us here: https://www.mercuryinsurance.com/about/careers

We offer many great benefits, including:

• Competitive compensation
• Flexibility to work from anywhere in the United States for most positions
• Paid time off (vacation time, sick time, 9 paid Company holidays, volunteer hours)
• Incentive bonus programs (potential for holiday bonus, referral bonus, and performance-based bonus)
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance
• 401 (k) retirement savings plan with company match
• Engaging work environment
• Promotional opportunities
• Education assistance
• Professional and personal development opportunities
• Company recognition program
• Health and wellbeing resources, including free mental wellbeing therapy/coaching sessions, child and eldercare resources, and more

Mercury Insurance is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.