Metadata Expert

Job Description

Job summary

Are you interested in being part of the Data Enablement Office? Ericsson's Data Enablement Office (DEO) has developed a data strategy that will empower data users across the company. The data strategy envisions:

• Democratize data and break down silos to enable seamless access to a broad data set

• Create clear accountability for data and ensure focus on business-relevant use cases

• Improve data quality to foster trust and reliability

This vision will be achieved through a data operating model that encompasses processes, roles & responsibilities, technology, tools and ways of working to help translate the data strategy into value creation.

A critical priority for Ericsson is to ensure that high-quality data is available to run our business and meet our customers' needs. The Ericsson Data Office was established to define a central data strategy and support core data used across Ericsson needed to run our business. The Data Enablement Office will work with the Business, Market Areas and Group Functions to deliver an effective operating model to ensure sound management of our data. To drive this change, we are looking for a highly motivated and determined Metadata expert who will be responsible for developing, implementing and managing enterprise business and technical metadata, including data dictionaries, data lineage, and all associated metadata initiatives. The purpose of the role will be to identify, drive, support and facilitate efficient & effective change & performance improvements - from business needs to business results, delivering customer, strategic and/or financial impact. Ensure the definition and deployment of business-relevant key measurements. Pro-actively analyze and propose improvements to processes, operations, and organizations. The improvements may be run in different ways: major initiatives, projects/programs/line activities driving operational & functional improvements or enabling day-to-day/continuous improvements.

In this role, you will be reporting directly to the Head of the Data Enablement Office.

Responsibilities

Critical data elements:

• Manage and approve list of Critical Data Elements (CDEs)
• Provide domains with guidelines, tools and support to identify and prioritize CDEs
• Business and technical metadata management:
• Establish, monitor and enforce business processes and standards for metadata management
• Define and maintain the list of common and specific metadata that need to be captured
• Ensure compliance to metadata standards
• Provide template for structuring business metadata (e.g., business definitions, security/access levels) and technical metadata (e.g., technical/physical data elements, data lineage)
• Manage demand for and approve changes to common and specific metadata (from data domains and from functions e.g. security and legal)
• Manage demand for and approve new common and specific metadata (from data domains and from functions e.g. security and legal)
• Ensure metadata changes and new metadata is added to the data catalog
• Approve and sign-off metadata definitions/descriptions to CDEs developed by domains
• Support in solving cross-data domain issues with metadata (e.g. multiple sources for the same CDE)
• Support data users in having access to metadata
• Define master data policies, procedures and place business requirements on master data mgmt. processes and tools

Metadata tools:

• Implement and manage an Ericsson-wide data catalog
• Support selection and implementation of tools to metadata

Basic qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in IT, with industry knowledge
• University degree/ MBA in Business or Engineering/ ICT
• Very strong familiarity with metadata issues and processes
• Experience in system data mapping and tracing
• Experience defining, implementing and managing data glossaries/dictionaries
• Strong project management leadership
• Strong interpersonal and communication/persuasion skills
• Strong leadership experience in an enterprise or cross-functional role

Preferred qualifications:

• Familiarity with agile ways of working is a plus

The position will be located in Stockholm (Kista), Sweden.

Application process: Last day to apply is the 30th of March 2020. Please upload your application in English as soon as possible, Due to GDPR policies we are not accepting resumes through email, please apply through the system. Please contact Recruiter, Ann Nilsson at [email protected] or Hiring Manager: Niclas Älgevik at [email protected] for further information about the role.

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Primary country and city: Sweden (SE) || || Stockholm || IT

Job details: Improvement & Performance Manager