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Principle Enterprise Steward & Semantic Layer Lead

Vistra
Royal Lane Office, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 12 Mar 2026

About the role

If you have what it takes to become part of the Vistra family and would like to start a promising career with a global leader, take a look at the exciting employment opportunities that are currently available and apply online.

Job Summary

The Principal Enterprise Steward & Semantic Layer Lead is the strategic expert focused on defining meaning, usage, and quality of enterprise data aligned with the Enterprise Data & Analytics Office. They work closely with business and IT teams to ensure the quality, integrity, and governance of data assets across the enterprise. This individual serves as a conduit between business strategy and technical execution, ensuring a “single source of truth” through modeling business concepts into a governed, consumable semantic layer.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Semantic Layer & Model Governance

Set the vision for enterprise ontologies and semantic models to unify business concepts across data domains and data products; ensure business contextual representations of dataAdvise and/or develop enterprise semantic layer and business logic abstractions for analytics & AI readiness, collaborating with architects, business stakeholders and technical product and modeling teamsEnsure business rules and KPIs are identified and incorporated into the semantic layer

Data Governance

Manage new data initiatives and approved data use cases; prioritizing and defining requirements for data domains and key data elements with domain teamsOnboard, coordinates with and supports domain teams to ensure application of policies & standards; performs check-ins with domain teams  for ongoing domain sustainability efforts

Data Catalog

Define/Validate requirements for data elements and populate the enterprise data catalogReview and refresh (as required) data lineage, and business and technical metadata

Data Quality

Define quality rules for data within domainOversee remediation of data quality issues in partnership with data stewards & custodians

Education, Experience, & Skill Requirements

12+ years minimum of progressive experience in data discipline such as data engineering, data governance, data architecture or a related areaExperience gained through college degree programs and/or certifications in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Management, Data Architecture & DesignExperience with semantic layer technologies (e.g., dbt, databricks), SQL, data dimensional modeling and BI toolsDemonstrated project management experience designing and implementing data and semantic layer governance initiatives in a management role Expertise in data management concepts, data governance frameworks, and data quality principles Experience with data catalog, data management and data quality tools (e.g., Alation catalog, Alation marketplace, Big Eye)Strong interpersonal and communication skills; Ability to effectively and persuasively communicate standards, practices, and initiatives to drive data and semantic layer governance throughout the organization Ability to liaise with data owners, data stewards and data consumers on both business and technical levels, translating business requirements into technical requirementsKnowledge of data sources, transformation rules, and uses of data for the area of data stewardshipExperience in performance management metrics

Expertise in developing and managing metadata.

Key Metrics

Operational Excellence: Streamline and Simplification of solution portfolio.

Continuous Improvement: Increased cost efficiency in solution delivery.

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Job Family

Information Technology

Company

Vistra Corporate Services Company

Locations

Irving, Texas

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