Metadata Analyst in Scottsdale, AZ at Discount Tire Corporate Careers

Job Description

Here at Discount Tire, we celebrate the spirit of our people with extraordinary pride and enthusiasm. Our business has been growing for more than 60 years and now is the best time in our history to join us. We recognize that to remain the industry leader we must continue to grow and evolve our business in a rapidly changing industry.  We are achieving this, not only by opening new stores, but by transforming our technological landscape and making data a central component of our strategy.  The Business Analytics team, one of the fastest growing teams in the company, is leading this change.  We are responsible for driving the insights, recommendations, and developing the decision support tools that influence the strategic direction of the company.

Under general supervision, supports the business needs of an enterprise-owned metadata repository, providing standard data definitions, accurate business rules/calculations, and complete traceability and lineage of governed data within the organization’s systems; formulates strategies and processes to increase sophistication and accuracy to the technical data management environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Executes Data Profiling on multiple datasets; evaluates the appropriate tools and techniques to efficiently profile multiple data sets
• Interprets data profile outcomes to proactively understand and establish relationships across data sets, improve data lake hydration process
• Determines relationships between business rules and data
• Analyzes the outcomes of Data Quality assessment; evaluates the appropriate tools and techniques to efficiently qualify data and make decisions on data lake hydration process
• Reports measurements on data quality dimensions and processes; implements proactive monitoring data quality to minimize the risk of data inaccuracy
• Implements the rules and actions to be taken to proactively identify data quality problems
• Completes Ingestion Documents following standards, including but not limited to interact with data engineers on technical implementation of ingestion documents
• Implements mechanisms to support ingestion documents structure updates and recommends improvement on the collection of metadata items, included but not limited to business concepts, extraction rules and data origin
• Develops the data extraction rules based on collaboration with SMEs
• Creates source to target mapping documents, follows standards to consistently and accurately represent business rules and data transformations
• Resolves moderately complex data transformations based on business rules
• Implements mechanisms to socialize metadata items and make them systematically available for business and technical users
• Documents the business concepts associated to specific datasets by collaborating with business and technical SMEs to understand business rules
• Implements the mechanisms to socialize business glossary
• Implements mechanisms to socialize the company data dictionary
• Partners with internal and external teams on the adoption of data management and data governance standards and practices throughout the organization
• Assists employees, vendors, or other customers by answering questions related to the recruiting processes
• Completes work in a timely and accurate manner while providing exceptional customer service
• Other duties as assigned