Data Quality Specialist at MasterCard

WAYS YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE

• Developing procedures and strategies that support, create, maintain, and manage data quality processes & guidelines
• Support the roll out of the data governance framework, with a focus on improvement of data quality through established guidelines, policies and standards
• Identify data quality issues and work towards resolving them by thinking laterally, and identifying and implementing improved work practices
• Effective business partnering with stakeholders to understand business needs, translate into data analytics technical requirements for data quality issues remediation
• Working with IT, Finance, Programs, Impact, Knowledge Management, Enterprise Risk & Legal Teams, to facilitate the development and implementation of data quality standards
• Ensure data quality items are resolved to ensure reporting is complete, accurate and timely
• Implements data quality solutions that will enable self-service capabilities as appropriate for reporting and data-informed management tools while collaborating with Functions, setting reporting quality standards
• Recommend corrective action plans, remediation, and improvements in resolution of data quality issues with standards detected through profiling of processes and procedures. 
• Utilize business partnering insights to continuously Identify new data quality opportunities pertaining to the use of data to provide data as a public asset for additional insights in solving certain challenges across the continent
• Define & measure data quality metrics and work towards compliance with data quality related policies, standards, and adoption requirements
• Determine protocols and infrastructure necessary for data quality, data validation, storage, structure, retrieval, and utilization.
• Work with the Foundation’s data advisory team to support Data for Public Good initiative
• Collaborate with the enterprise IT team to incorporate the foundation’s data quality management policies into the planning, building, and running domains of enterprise IT, as well as conducting a monitoring role to assess adherence to the policies. 

WHO YOU ARE

• Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Information Management, or any relevant field
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a professional services corporation or a large Development/Public Policy Organization, with exposure to data platforms and applications.
• Minimum of at least 3 years of experience with data quality management
• Experience: setting and evaluating data quality service levels; measuring and monitoring data quality; managing data quality issues.
• Knowledge of industry leading data quality practices
• Ability to synthesize and analyze diverse data and information, develop, and recommend strategies 
• Ability to think creatively, highly driven and self-motivated 
• Strong communication ability to interact with both business stakeholders and technical teams
• Possess excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate information to a variety of constituents across cultures
• Possess tested professional maturity, cultural sensitivity, and impeccable integrity
• A strong commitment to Mastercard Foundation’s values and vision