Job Description
WHO WE ARE
The Data Management Organization (DMO) is chartered with managing Twitter’s data lifecycle. This function ensures company-wide consistency around discoverability, usability, and compliance, including privacy, security, and ultimately the data strategy. To that end, DMO builds data auditing & monitoring, discovery, and compliance assessment tools in an effort to digitize the Data Governance process across the organization globally. The Data Productivity team utilizes these tools to help our customers (Twitter’s Engineering and Product teams)
WHO YOU ARE
MUST ❤️ #METADATA
Data Managers design and drive the implementation of data lifecycle processes and tools in collaboration with stakeholders from Legal, Security, Engineering, and Product teams from across Twitter. The ideal candidate will have a lot of passion for enterprise data architecture, data quality, privacy, and data protection, and has a knack for influencing key stakeholders using facts and insights.
EXAMPLE ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:
Analyze policies to define standards and rules
Articulate business, functional and technical requirements
Drive data warehouse, master data solutions
Evangelize adoption standards and remediations
Foment stakeholder consensus
Qualifications
SKILLS
Exceptional analytical and written/visual communication skills
Ability to address both technical and non-technical audiences in the same context
Functional requirements gathering
Ability to assess technical shared service environments, identify problem areas, champion continuous improvement initiatives and drive innovation
Positive, momentum-building evangelization with business and engineering stakeholders
General data analysis skills (SQL, spreadsheets, visualization)
General data presentation skills
Collaboration
Team oriented, incorporate feedback quickly and seamlessly
Self-starter who is looking to lead and advise rather than be told how to complete tasks
Know how to navigate and tackle ambiguous problems
Treat people well -- disagree without being disagreeable
Manage a portfolio of activities and resources across multiple functions: data lineage and metadata management, data quality monitoring and reporting, data operations, and platform business analysis support.
Lead stakeholders across the company in the maintenance of the platforms used for internal and external reporting
Be the subject matter expertise within data governance working groups and management committees
Can drive cross-functional teams to decisions
REQUIRED
Demonstrated success working on large complex projects with multiple cross-functional stakeholders and discrete systems that handle data
Thorough understanding of data models, relationships, metadata management, and governance
Working knowledge of Hadoop, Vertica, MySQL databases and how they interact with data management tooling
Understanding of PII, GDPR, and other data compliance standards both local and global
Experience with both operational and project responsibilities
DESIRED
5 years of data management/governance experience with a significant amount of experience leading data warehousing and/or data management projects
Experience with data privacy, compliance and security control enablement
Solid understanding of how to implement common data management/governance processes
Experience with data architecture, quality tools, and modeling
Programming or scripting experience
Experience with Human/Computer Interface or User Experience design, particularly as it relates to using data
Additional Information
We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Twitter. Twitter is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any legally protected status.
San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.