Senior Analyst, Data Glossary-3

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Senior Analyst, Data Glossary-3 Overview The Senior Analyst, Data Glossary is responsible for the glossary content creation within the enterprise data glossary for assigned data sets and domains. This includes curating the data to be included by ensuring the critical data elements are appropriately identified, categorizing and classifying data, applying business term naming and definition standards, facilitating the rationalization of business terms at an enterprise level across business units, and ensuring content is represented accurately within tooling. This individual will serve as a semantic subject matter expert for assigned data domains and/or data sets as Mastercard expands its data management program and strategy within the office of the Chief Data Officer (CDO). This role is within the Data Management & Strategy team, with reporting structure up to the Chief Data Officer. Role • Coordinate and communicate with data subject matter experts and other stakeholders to curate and proof the content to be included in the data glossary for assigned data domains, ensuring business terms conform to standards. • Normalize terms cross-functionally, ensuring no term duplicates, and facilitating consensus among competing stakeholders. • Ensure content is loaded and maintained in enterprise tooling. Participate in the identification and implementation of controls to ensure glossary integrity. • Collaborate closely with team members and cross-functional teams to ensure content and process alignment. Contribute to process automation and streamlining operational procedures. • Assist in researching and evaluating external related standards. • Align with established data categories and concepts that may be managed by other team members. • Solicit and incorporate continuous feedback from communities of interest and other stakeholders to improve data semantic models while maintaining governance. • Assist with the creation and maintenance of standards and best practices related to the data glossary, including business term naming and definition standards. Solicit and incorporate continuous feedback from the community and other stakeholders. • Assist with the training of new data glossary resources. • Coordinate with Operations & Technology support teams to report, track, and escalate any tool issues or defects impacting the performance or usability of the data glossary tools • Serve as a data-driven change agent and advocate, persuading and influencing the organization at the grassroots level. All About You • Excellent writing skills, including the ability to concisely and precisely convey information to the intended audience in an easy to understand, unambiguous manner. • Advanced Excel skills are desirable, intermediate required at a minimum. • Demonstrated experience in working with data. • Demonstrated experience with the application of standards. • Hands-on experience with projects involving an enterprise glossary, thesaurus, or controlled vocabulary. • Highly-motivated self-starter with the ability to multi-task between strategy-related work and tactical ‘in the trenches’ work, while working under deadlines. Ability to produce effective business results while under time pressures. • Ability to understand and analyze