Data Quality Specialist, Data Management & Governance at Prudential Ins Co of America in Newark, New Jersey

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Are you passionate about delivering customer focused solutions? Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability and efficiency? Our team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA! When you join the Global Technology organization at Prudential, you’ll unlock an exciting and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions. 

Your Team 

As a Data Quality Specialist, Data Management & Governance Chief Data Office, you will join a team of change agents who specialize in ensuring that data is secure and protected, accessible, understood, of known quality, and can be effectively used in support of business goals. You will partner with product owners, data/system owners, engineers and partners to improve data quality. Data Management & Governance is responsible for the tools and processes to maintain a common firm-wide data standard, to understand and influence the quality of data, and to ensure that data is protected and used in accordance with legal, ethical and regulatory requirements.  The organization provides solutions and advice within data initiatives by creating, assessing, mastering, managing and maintaining strategies to reduce data redundancy, increase consistency, measure quality, and protect and increase accessibility to data used for decision making.

In addition to experience, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership demeanor and a continuous learning focus to all that you do. 

Here is what you can expect on a typical day  

• Serve as project lead and execute assigned activities (data analysis/profiling, data curation, dictionary/business definition, establishing quality rules, etc.) against initiative/program roadmaps.


• Work with business partners, governance peers, project teams, and leaders to gather and understand functional requirements that support the development of business-impact-driven initiatives and projects and establishing projects plans for execution using operationalized capabilities, resources, and tools.


• Proactively identify project issues/risks/opportunities and suggest/implement solution that all improve the ability to deliver project milestones, OKRs, and deliverable to be achieved.


• Continually develop knowledge and experience in adopted standards, tools, workflows, and concepts to increase program efficiency and throughput that enable improved access to, comprehension, quality, and utilization of data across the enterprise.


• Develop and deliver relevant and appropriate training materials and practices that can be delivered enterprise wide while also supporting the development and mentoring of Data Governance Associates.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring   

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).


• Works on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors. Exercises' judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.


• Experienced understanding of business line and a basic understanding of the overall firm.


• Able to contributefunctional requirements and to work independently under limited circumstances.


• Successful written and verbal communication to communicate sophisticated messages and creative concepts. 

Experience and experience with tools including:

• Possess a solid understanding of data management concepts and principles.


• Apply strong SQL skills to write complex queries for data profiling and analysis.


• Contribute to data quality initiatives, driving continuous improvement to our data quality management processes.


• Understand both on-premise and cloud-based data technologies with ease.


• Solid understanding of data quality framework and data life cycle management standards.


• Conduct thorough data profiling, assess data and identify issues.


• Develop and implement data quality monitoring rules to proactively identify potential issues.


• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to manage and resolve data quality issues.


• Experience with one or more data governance or quality tools such as Informatica CDQ, CDGC, Collibra, Alation, or IBM IGC/Information Analyzer is preferred.


• Analytical, root cause analysis, and critical thinking abilities.

You’ll Love Working Here Because You Can 

Join a team and culture where your voice matters; where every day, your work transforms our experiences to make lives better. As you put your skills to use, we’ll help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. You’ll be surprised by what this rock-solid organization has in store for you.

What we offer you:

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level


• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave


• Retirement plans:


• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%)


• Company-funded pension plan


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  Wellness Programs to help you achieve your wellbeing goals, including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs


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  Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.


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  Tuition Assistance to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree, many accredited certificate programs, and industry designations.


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  Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.

To find out more about our Total Reward package, see our Total Rewards Brochure. Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.

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Note: Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $90,100.00 to $134,100.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills. Roles may also be eligible for additional compensation and/or benefits. Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. In addition, employees are eligible for standard benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental and retirement.

Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Prudential is a multinational financial services leader with operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Leveraging its heritage of life insurance and asset management expertise, Prudential is focused on helping individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth. The company's well-known Rock symbol is an icon of strength, stability, expertise and innovation that has stood the test of time. Prudential's businesses offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, asset management, and real estate services.

We recognize that our strength and success are directly linked to the quality and skills of our diverse associates. We are proud to be a place where talented people who want to make a difference can grow as professionals, leaders, and as individuals. Visit www.prudential.com to learn more about our values, our history and our brand.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status , medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law. 

The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark, NJ and its affiliates.

Note that this posting is intended for individual applicants. Search firms or agencies should email Staffing at staffingagencies@prudential.com for more information about doing business with Prudential.

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