Associate - Data Catalogue

**Job Title - Associate - Data Catalogue.**

**Career Level - C2**

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.

**Who we are**:
The Global Business Service (GBS) team sits within Finance at AstraZeneca and is a dynamic and results-oriented environment and provides a range of enterprise-wide services. We dare to change the way we work by freeing up the business to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines. We aim to do this by freeing up time, freeing up money, protecting AZ’s value and providing new capabilities.

**About Astrazeneca**:
**What we do**:
A trusted partner to the business, we’re on a mission to make AstraZeneca more agile, efficient and effective. Through our hybrid model of in-house delivery centers and service towers across the globe, we’re reimagining how we work. Here we drive new ways of working and operating models, process simplification and innovative solutions, whilst ensuring that automation and data is at the heart of everything.

**How we do it**:
Be part of a team building a community. We interact with diverse cultures and perspectives and are united by our sense of belonging. This is the place to learn and grow together.

**Why we love it**:

- As a growing multi-national company, there’s so much potential to develop. Embrace opportunities at a global business that’s facing new and varied challenges. This is the place to build an exemplary, international CV.
- A fun place to be, we’re creating community hubs that build partnerships, not just working relationships.
- We’re on an exciting journey to take our team to the next stage. This is the place to leave a legacy behind.
- We are a diverse, inclusive and innovative group who identify, build and deliver excellent shared services (which everyone can leverage) to enable AstraZeneca to grow and change at speed. We are passionate about simple process - making it easier to get vital repeatable services done - for our patients, for our customers, for our teams.
- We focus on providing exceptional value that contributes to our company’s success and future by freeing up the business (our customers) to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines for patients. With the accomplishments, commitment and passion that you bring, I’m excited about what we will achieve together towards realizing AstraZeneca’s bold ambition.

**About the role**:
The GBS Data Office (GDO) supports Commercial and Enabling Units business areas. The Data Catalogue Associate is responsible for the systems, business rules and processes which ensure data is findable, accessible and fit for use by one or more business units. The role achieves this through the capture of metadata and development of the data catalogue.

**Typical Accountabilities**:
**Data Catalogue**
- Support the Data Catalogue Principal to define Information Asset Registers across business areas to help profile information risk/value.
- Capture and maintain comprehensive metadata for all data assets, including data lineage, quality, and dependencies.
- Develop and maintain automated workflows for metadata capture, validation, and enrichment.
- Continuously improve data cataloging workflows and procedures to enhance efficiency and scalability.
- Identify and catalog data assets across various data sources, including databases, data lakes, and cloud platforms.
- Classify data based on its sensitivity, relevance, and usage to facilitate efficient data management and access controls.
- Work closely with data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and priorities.
- Implement metadata tagging to enhance data discoverability and usability.
- Support compliance audits by providing accurate and up-to-date metadata documentation.
- Work with data stewards and business users to enrich catalogue entries with business data dictionary, business rules, glossaries.
- Execute monitoring controls to assure metadata quality remains at a high level.

**Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience**:
**Essential**:

- Demonstrable experience of working in a data management, data governance or data engineering domain
- Strong analytical skills and technical acumen.
- Proven experience with Data Catalogue, Search and Automation software (Collibra, Informatica, Talend etc).
- Ability to interpret and communicate technical information into business language and in alignment with AZ business.
- Solid understanding of metadata harvesting methodologies and ability to create business and technical metadata sets.
- Strong communication skills, including excellent organizational and presentation skills.

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