Data Steward at a glance
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Data Steward
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What does a Data Steward do?
As a data steward, you're responsible for ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of your organization's data. You manage quality by resolving duplicates, updating records, and upholding governance standards to maintain high data integrity. This role is integral to supporting data-driven decisions by ensuring that organizational data is trustworthy, compliant, and optimized for business use.
What other roles does a Data Steward work with?
You play a pivotal role in maintaining data quality and governance while enabling seamless collaboration across key organizational roles. Your work involves partnerships with:
Through these partnerships, you enhance the effectiveness of campaigns, ensuring they are data-driven, targeted, and aligned with business objectives.
What Reltio products and applications do Data Steward use?
Here are the tools of the trade for Data Stewards.
| Application | Available in | ||
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| Reltio Entity Resolution | Reltio Multidomain Master Data Management (MDM) | Reltio Customer 360 | |
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What external applications does a Data Steward work with?
- Technical skills
- Proficient in data quality tools and methodologies, data governance frameworks, and compliance regulations such as the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Knowledgeable in data cataloging and metadata management tools.
- Soft skills
- Strong organizational and communication skills, detail-oriented, effective collaboration with stakeholders, and proactive problem-solving abilities.
What objectives are a Data Steward concerned with?
Use Reltio Data Cloud to meet your Data Steward responsibilities for ensuring high data quality and maintaining up-to-date and compliant data records.
| Role objective | Description | Find out how |
|---|---|---|
| Data accuracy and consistency | Regularly review data to ensure it does not conflict with other entities, removing duplicates and correcting inaccuracies. | Potential matching at a glance |
| Data Integration Monitoring | Oversee nightly batch jobs that integrate data from various sources into Reltio, identifying and addressing issues with auto-merges, matches, and unmatched records. | Workflow management at a glance |
| Data Governance | Collaborate with IT and business teams to ensure compliance with data governance frameworks and privacy regulations. | System administration at a glance |
| Metadata Management | Maintain data dictionaries and manage metadata to ensure clarity and consistency in data usage. | |
| Reporting and Analysis | View and analyze reports to identify problematic records and conduct research to ensure data accuracy. | Data quality monitoring at a glance |