DATA COORDINATOR

Objective:

• Integration within one or more DATA teams that are in charge of developments related to the digitalization of the Client These are also in charge of maintenance.

The skills required for the mission are as follows:
Making governance work on a daily basis 

The Data Coordinator steers the operational flow of governance activities and ensures that requests, issues, decisions and actions are identified, assigned, followed up and closed. 

• Identify and qualify the topics to be covered. 

• Assign topics to the responsible actors and monitor their progress. 

• Organize escalations and prepare arbitrations when the operational level is not sufficient. 

• Ensure the traceability of decisions and verify their implementation. 

Coach and increase the skills of Data Referents 

This mission is a major component of the role at the Client. Data Referents have different levels of maturity, knowledge and experience; the Coordinator therefore adapts his support to their needs. 

• Explain governance concepts and practices in accessible language. 

• Create and have created training materials on data governance methods and practices. 

• Concretely show how to use methods and tools on real cases. 

• Review and challenge the analyses or proposals produced by the Data Referents. 

• Provide a method when the Referent does not know how to approach a problem. 

• Gradually transfer skills in order to make the Data Referents autonomous. 

Support the definition and management of business terms 

The Data Coordinator masters the management practices of a business glossary and supports the Data Referents in the definition, validation and life cycle of business terms. 

• Help distinguish a business definition from a technical description. 

• Challenge vague, ambiguous, circular or overly local definitions. 

• Identify the stakeholders needed to define and facilitate consensus-building. 

• Identify synonyms, associated concepts, and definitional conflicts. 

• Organize escalation in case of persistent disagreement. 

• Ensure the publication and lifecycle of terms in the data catalog. 

Supporting data quality management 

The Data Coordinator has practical experience in Data Quality and supports the Data Referents throughout the entire processing cycle of a quality problem. 

• Help formulate and objectify a quality problem correctly. 

• Analyze data to identify symptoms, possible causes, and impacted populations. 

• Assess business impacts and distinguish between one-time remediation, mitigation, and sustainable resolution. 

• Formulate or challenge corrective and preventive actions. 

• Define with the stakeholders concerned rules, controls, thresholds and quality indicators. 

• Monitor remediation and verify the effectiveness of the actions implemented. 

• Determine when an issue should be escalated to the Data Owner. 

Administering and evolving governance tools 

The Data Coordinator is the functional referent for governance tools. He is able to configure them, administer them functionally and evolve them according to the needs of the Client. 

• Functionally administer the data catalog and evolve the metadata models. 

• Configure the necessary objects, roles, workflows, publishing and validation rules. 

• Structure and maintain the business glossary and governance of Data products. 

• Functionally administer the Data Quality tool when it is deployed. 

• Configure or have configured quality rules, controls, thresholds, indicators, and processing workflows. 

• Continuously improve the experience of using governance tools. 

Maintain and improve governance processes 

The Data Coordinator transforms governance principles into simple, operational and truly applicable processes. 

• Document, implement and evolve cataloguing processes, business terms, quality, data issues, possible certification and governance of Data products. 

• Ensure consistency between processes and their implementation in the tools. 

• Integrate feedback and simplify practices when they become too cumbersome. 

Coordinating cross-cutting topics 

When a problem concerns several Referents, directorates or data sets, the Coordinator structures the collective treatment of the subject. 

• Identify the actors concerned and clarify the scope of the problem. 

• Organize and facilitate collective work. 

• Document decisions and items requiring arbitration. 

• Ensure the follow-up of actions until their closure. 

Prepare and facilitate governance bodies 

The Data Coordinator prepares and facilitates the work of the Data Governance Council. 

• Gather the facts and elements necessary for the decision. 

• Structure the topics and recommendations to be submitted. 

• Facilitate exchanges during the sessions. 

• Document decisions and monitor their implementation