Core Operations - Senior Associate

About the role

The Data Operations team within SSGA Investment Operations is seeking a highly motivated and innovative data governance professional. This role collaborates with partners across the firm to execute activities within our Data Strategy, including establishing a data management culture and enhancing data stewardship.

What you'll do

• Implement and continuously enhance the Data Governance framework, policies, standards
• Drive Collibra Data Intelligence adoption, including Business Glossary, Data Catalog, metadata management, ownership, stewardship workflows, and governance processes
• Partner with Data Owners and Data Stewards to define and maintain Critical Data Elements (CDEs), business definitions, data classifications, authoritative sources
• Support end-to-end data lineage and metadata management, improving transparency and traceability across source systems, transformations, and downstream consumers
• Establish and monitor Data Quality rules, controls, KPIs/KRIs, and scorecards, performing root-cause analysis and driving remediation of data quality exceptions

What you need

• 4–6 yrs of experience
• SQL
• Excel
• VBA
• Informatica
• Tableau
• Alteryx
• Any graduate

Good to have

• PowerPoint
• Root cause analysis
• Business analysis