Data Steward

Do you want to work in a global company where you can contribute to a more sustainable food production? DeLaval is a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of solutions for dairy farmers around the world. As a company built on innovation, we constantly work to find ways of helping our customers do more with less.

DeLaval is now looking for an experience Data Steward to join Data Platform team in Digital Services Organization.

The Digital Services Unit leads DeLaval’s transition to offer cloud-based services to bring unique value to dairy farmers, dealers, partners, and its own organisation. We are on an exciting journey of connecting farms, robots and cows to the cloud. Through data collection in combination with AI/ML, we are creating new and innovative solutions helping the dairy farmers all around the world.

Purpose Of Role And Key Responsibilities

As a Data Steward at DeLaval Digital Services, you will play a pivotal role in the Data Platform team, ensuring the integrity, quality, and accessibility of data across the organization. You will act as a guardian of data assets, fostering trust in data by implementing and upholding robust data governance practices. Your work will support the transition from a centralized to a decentralized (data mesh) operating model, enabling product teams to onboard high-quality, well-governed data in our modern data platform for innovation and decision-making. By collaborating with stakeholders, you will ensure data is accurate, consistent, and aligned with business objectives.

What You'll Do As a Data Steward

• Responsible for overseeing a quality, integrity, and security of datasets
• Guiding domains to onboard their datasets in catalogue according to the modern data platform standards
• Act as a bridge between the technical and business when it comes to internal and external data sharing
• Implement and guiding (and sometimes creating) policies, procedures, and standards in data governance (e.g. data quality, access management, contracts)
• Making sure we have interoperability across datasets (Data architecture principles are followed)
• Monitor and audit the reliability of the data during the domain onboarding process
• Ensure that datasets used for data&AI products (BI, ML algorithms,…) are correct, relevant, and properly handled
• Act as a key enabler, in data model creation and guide owners in documentation of their assets
• Educate and upskill data domains about data policies, quality issues, and governance practices
• Holds responsibility for confirming/verifying the DoD in data management practices in the modern data platform
• Constant audit of new datasets in the catalogue to make sure they are compliant and secured
• Supports Data Platform team Product Data Analysts and Product Owners
  
  

Required qualifications and experience:

To be successful in this role we see that you have:

• Proven track record and more than 3 years of experience in a similar role
• Strong understanding of data governance principles, data quality frameworks, and metadata management, access control....
• Good understanding of data mesh concepts or decentralized data architectures
• Knowledge of data regulations (GDPR, Data Act, CCPA,…)
• Metric-oriented to measure the success of the data management
• Decent cross-functional communications skills, act as the "Data management Champion"
• Familiarity with Databricks and/or AWS
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and addressing data-related challenges in a dynamic environment
• Productivity tools expert (e.g. Jira, Miro, Confluence…)
• Experience working agile set ups (Scrum, Kanban)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, and Business Administration
  
  

Working at DeLaval

Our core values Passion, People, Professionals and Partnerships connect individuals across entities and geographies. Success is far more than knowledge – it is strongly related to behaviours. At DeLaval we are all guided by our three behaviours, Set Direction, Make things happen and One DeLaval.

We Offer You a Workplace Like No Other, Where State-of-the-art Technology Goes Hand In Hand With Animal Welfare. DeLaval Is a Part Of The Tetra Laval Group Together With Tetra Pak And Sidel. In Addition, We Offer

• Market-based salary with an individual incentive program based on performance and company result
• Secure employment and benefits from the collective agreement (occupational pension, work-related accident insurance).
• Parental leave compensation (approx. 10 percent of the employee's monthly salary).
• Wellness contribution of 4 000 SEK/year
• Private health insurance
• Flexible working hours and reduced working hours.
• 30 days paid vacation
  
  

This position is located in Tumba, Sweden. You will report to Data&AI Platform Product Manager.

Application

To apply for this position, you must send in your application though the DeLaval career page Careers - DeLaval. Kindly note that we do not accept applications via email. We review applications ongoing, so do not wait to send in your application. Please note that response times may be longer than usual due to holiday periods. We appreciate your patience and understanding.

Contact

Hiring manager: Mohammmadreza Babaee, Data&AI Platform Product Manager, [email protected]

Recruiter: Agnes Edbom, [email protected]

About DeLaval Our vision is to make sustainable food production possible. As a company built on innovation, we constantly work to find ways of helping our customers, dairy farmers, do more with less by providing world-leading milking equipment and solutions. Today, DeLaval has approximately 4,700 passionate professionals operating in more than 100 markets around the world. DeLaval is part of the Tetra Laval Group. See more at www.corporate.delaval.com