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Sr. Business Analyst, Data Governance & Literacy

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play —it’s also the Best Place to Work. We’ve thrilled gamers since 1994, when we launched the original PlayStation. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment. The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

Sr. Business Analyst, Data Governance & Literacy

San Mateo, CA

“The growth of data is outpacing an organization’s ability to get value from it”, said a prominent research firm. The Data Governance & Literacy (DGL) team in Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is set up to instill a culture of effective and responsible use of data, thereby enabling a data-driven culture to harness the most value from our data. This is accomplished by governing data as a valuable enterprise asset (responsible) as well as continuously elevating the organization’s data literacy (effective). This role focuses on building out our data literacy program, starting with developing a world-class, context-rich, enterprise data catalog to enable data consumers can quickly find, understand and trust.

Reporting into SIE’s Data Strategy and Operations department, this role will expose you to all varieties of data and business functions. You will partner with various stakeholders including product managers, engineers, data scientists, and analytics professionals to understand their data needs, and devise strategies to help them cut down data discovery time and get to value generation quicker.

If you are an absolute self-starter, are passionate about data, and have the people skills to drive change (e.g. driving metadata standards, cultivating data communities to crowd-source data knowledge), read on.

Responsibilities:

• Expand data catalog to include high-value data sources and assets, working towards our goal to create the most informative and crowd-source-based knowledge repository of our data assets.
• Become a subject matter expert in both the content and capabilities of the data catalog.
• Ideate, develop, and implement solutions to enrich the context of data, such as through extraction of meaningful metadata from other systems, or curation of high-value knowledge content.
• Build partnerships with data engineering and data consumer teams to embed sound governance practices to maintain the quality of content in the catalog.
• Develop relevant metrics and KPIs to assess the value, maturity, and quality of the catalog.
• Raise visibility through various channels of communication, and drive adoption to continuously enrich the catalog

Qualifications:

• You are an intrinsic self-starter
• 5+ years of experience as an analyst or project manager in a data-intensive environment.
• You have hands-on experience in at least 2 of the following areas:
• Building and supporting data catalogs (Alation, Collibra, IBM etc.)
• Performing metadata management, master data management, data lineage or quality management, or similar data governance activities
• Using/Analyzing data in a relational database setting (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, Snowflake)
• Using/Analyzing data in a non-relational setting (e.g., S3, Hadoop)
• Designing/optimizing organizational processes (e.g. PMO, Agile, Data Governance etc.)
• Passionate about understanding the big picture and delivering value
• Ability to facilitate discussions with senior staff and build cross-functional consensus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• BA/BS degree or equivalent

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, covered veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

We sincerely appreciate the time and effort you spent in contacting us and we thank you for your interest in PlayStation.

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