Data Governance Expert

Parques Reunidos is one of the leading, fastest-growing leisure park operators in the world. With 50 years’ experience, it owns and operates more than 60 parks across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Australia.

We are currently looking for a:
Data Governance Expert

Roles & Responsibilities:
Roles and Responsibilities
- Collaborate on the analysis, designing, implementation and improvement of data governance strategy in Parques Reunidos.
- Create and implement a strategic plan for the business in line with business ambitious expectations.
- Coordination with IT department to implement strategies to improve platform performance that drives to improvements in the experience and increase value.
- Create and deliver plans that focus on key strategic pillars of growth.
- Responsible for communication and any escalation of data governance, strategy, or issues to the business stakeholder directly.
- Ensures, together with the internal communications team, that all communications in alignment with Information management and methodologies are using the best channels and reach the correct audience
- Building and maintaining strong relationships internally and externally in order to facilitate governance involvement with projects across all business areas and development of new governance project opportunities.
- Providing technical leadership and support to other team members through organised training sessions, ad hoc project advice and support on making technical decisions
- Being accountable for the quality of the analytical deliveries and conducting and managing the quality assurance of the outputs
- Representing the Governance team in various internal and external meetings to either present project work or provide advice
- Ensuring knowledge and experience is shared within the team and the wider business
- Further developing technical skills, including analytical software and advanced analytical methods
- Support different legal restrictions and regulations within different countries. Strong coordination with the security team for supporting security standards
- Establish and roll out data governance standards, frameworks, documentation and tools.
- Put processes in place to make data more discoverable, addressable, trustworthy, self-describing, inter-operable and secure.
- Partner and coordinate with the data security and legal teams to ensure compliance.
- Partner and coordinate with key team members on cross functional teams for data quality and issue remediation.
- Oversee, manage and version key deliverables and processes to build Parques Reunidos data model.
- Proactively champion the value of our data assets and a “data as a product” culture throughout the business.
- Build metrics to measure Data Governance operational key results.
- Operating our corporate governance tool

**Requirements**:
**Education**:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Management, Information Systems, or related field or a scientific discipline with demonstration of excellent analytical skills.
- Any master’s degree in Master Data Management, Data Governance or Big Data will be considered a plus.
- DAMA data management knowledge will be required.

Languages:

- Spanish - Mother tongue.
- English: Fluent (C1).

Computer Skills:

- Experience with any governance tool

**Experience**:

- Minimum of 3 years of professional experience in multinational companies with Data Quality, Analytics, Business Intelligence and change management methodologies.
- Business professional experience with relevant industry experience focusing on developing, implementing, and maintaining data standards, management, and governance across multinational organizations
- Experience of leading and working with the business to establish data standards and ownership
- Knowledge of data governance frameworks and how they have been implemented in other large, complex organizations
- Experience in defining and implementing data quality dashboards and leading and working on data quality improvement programs in large complex organizations
- Proven ability to effectively lead and manage within a fast paced, high growth complex organization
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to identify and collaborate with key stakeholders across functions
- Proficient in Data Governance frameworks and a solid understanding of Metadata Management, Master Data and Data Quality standards.
- Solid knowledge and understanding of the business and organization
- Excellent listening, written, and oral communication skills
- Strong organizational, analytical, and decision making skills
- Ability to anticipate and solve problems
- Proven change management skills and experience
- Experience transforming business requirements in technical specifications
- Work culture with Agile methodologies and remote tools
- Knowledge of databases and BI tools and/or experience in writing SQL queries
- Experience with data governance tools or other tools for data manageme