Data Quality Expert/Information Steward

Do you have a passion for data and want to work with data quality and processes in a business driven setting?

We are looking for Data Quality Experts/Information Stewards, that will help us in becoming data-driven in all we do!

You will work within Vattenfall Consumer Sales Nordic, where we are accelerating towards a future with the connected energy landscape, new solutions, empowered customers and disruptive competitors. We have very high ambitions going forward and will continue to be a leader through innovation, customer focused solutions and signature customer experiences.

Your responsibility as a Data Quality Expert/Information Steward is to develop, maintain and document data and data flows, as well as maintaining extensive knowledge of the data flows, processes and personal data being processed. You will also work with improvements and ensuring an adequate quality of data in terms of retention, deletion rules, consent, etc. You will work closely with the information asset owner and business process owner to optimize how we use and track data and data flows, as well as collaborating with system owners and security coordinators to ensure data security controls are implemented and working effectively.

Your main responsibilities:

• Defining permissible information use, ensuring that information is current and accessible to authorized users.
• Ensuring that the data collection and retained is up-to-date and the data lifecycle is managed, meaning that the information is accurate, complete, and reliable throughout its journey—from creation and storage to usage and disposal.
• Participating in information asset classification workshops to give input on data flows and insights related to confidentiality, integrity and availability of data within the systems
• Consulting in security and privacy control gap assessments ensuring relevant controls such as, backups, encryption etc. are implemented.
• Maintaining the descriptive information (metadata) about information areas to make it easier for others to find and reuse information
• Ensuring that data owners, process managers and other relevant stakeholders have a good understanding of the data they are working with and mapping personal data towards processes and applicable rules
• Maintaining understanding about personal data flows and implementing relevant safeguards to secure processing of such data

Requirements

To be successful in this role we believe that you:

• Have a university or equivalent degree in the field of computer data science or other related fields
• Have good knowledge of information and data management systems and related tools
• Have a passion for data and processes and you are good at using digital tools to automate processes
• Enjoy using your knowledge to advice and educate stakeholders on data knowledge, data retention, data processing, or new methods and tools to increase data quality as required
• Have very good skills in English, as well as Swedish or Finnish, both written and verbally

As a person you are result oriented and can work independently, as well as working effectively with other colleagues across organizational units in different locations/countries to support and exchange knowledge. You are proactive in your work and have a good analytical ability along with strong communication skills.