Data Quality Lead

Firm Overview

Cambridge Associates (“CA”) is a leading global investment firm. CA’s goal is to help endowments & foundations, pension plans, and ultra-high net worth private clients implement and manage custom investment portfolios that generate outperformance so that they can maximize their impact on the world. Cambridge Associates delivers a range of services, including outsourced CIO, non-discretionary portfolio management, and investment consulting.

Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, CA has offices in key markets in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.  Our worldwide teams ensure our clients benefit from decades of global presence, local expertise, and relationships with the top global investment managers across the world.  For more information, please visit www.cambridgeassociates.com.

Position Overview

We are seeking a seasoned and proactive Director, Data Quality Lead, to join our growing Data Office team. As the Data Quality Lead, you will drive our data quality initiatives and improve our firm’s data quality competency.  Additionally, you will be responsible for implementing tools, policies and procedures to improve the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data across the organization.  This role will work closely with various departments to align data quality initiatives with business objectives, requiring an understanding of financial services, our business functions, operations, and terminology.  

Key Responsibilities:

Data Quality Strategy

·         Develop and articulate the organization's data quality vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with the organization's business goals and objectives.

·         Define data quality objectives, priorities, and key performance indicators (KPIs).

·         Ensure data quality efforts comply with regulatory requirements such as GDPR, CCPA, and industry-specific regulations.

Data Quality Management

·         Establish and implement governance standards, policies and procedures for data quality and validation in concert with our overall data governance initiative.

·         Develop standard methods and reusable solutions across data quality validations, monitoring, metrics gathering and reporting.

·         Collaborate with data owners and stewards to resolve data quality issues and conduct regular data audits and assessments to identify and mitigate data risks.

·         Review data validation plans for new development to ensure a comprehensive data validation solution is designed and implemented.

·         Periodically review validations performed by consumers to find opportunities to move checks upstream to help with overall operational efficiency and data quality.

Role Responsibilities and Expectations

·         Must be able to quickly ramp-up on the domain understanding and business processes, users’ needs and what the data represents meaningfully to contribute to defining validations and KPIs in collaboration with business teams.

·         Become an SME for our data quality platform and subsequently assist and train others.

·         Review data validation plans for new development to ensure comprehensive validation is designed and implemented.

·         Provide guidance to teams migrating to newer applications to ensure accurate and efficient data migration and seed