Data Expert Manager

Description

Job Summary: BBVA seeks a data professional with experience to lead data understanding, management, and quality in strategic projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Key Highlights: 1. Lead the data strategy for key banking projects. 2. Ensure data quality and governance in a dynamic environment. 3. Collaborate with diverse stakeholders to drive innovation. **Want to develop your professional career?** BBVA is a global company with over 160 years of history, operating in more than 25 countries, serving over 80 million customers. We are over 121\.000 professionals working in multidisciplinary teams with diverse profiles, including finance specialists, legal experts, data scientists, developers, engineers, and designers. Our people make the difference in our success. **Contract Type:** Regular (Undefined) **What Are We Looking For?** **Responsibilities:** * Lead comprehensive understanding of data needs for the bank’s strategic projects, ensuring proper definition, prioritization, and alignment with business objectives. * Refine information requirements by validating availability, relevance, and quality of existing data. * Define guidelines for proper data exploitation, including extraction criteria, business rules, data intersections, and information scopes. * Lead data demand management, coordinating identification of gaps and incorporation or adaptation of new information sources. * Ensure identification and validation of trusted data sources, guaranteeing their suitability for various use cases. * Participate in and oversee correct definition and evolution of data models, ensuring consistency, scalability, and reusability. * Supervise definition of data mappings, transformations, and processing rules, ensuring standardization and cross-functional applicability. * Ensure appropriate functional documentation of data, promoting traceability, understanding, and usage by diverse stakeholders. * Validate and certify data availability and quality, ensuring compliance with defined frequency, coverage, historical depth, and standards. * Ensure compliance with data governance policies and establish quality guidelines, guaranteeing implementation across corporate platforms. * Supervise monitoring of quality controls and rules, driving corrective actions and remediation plans for identified deviations. * Lead incident management, user support, and communication, ensuring proper impact management and promoting continuous improvement and root-cause remediation. * Guarantee achievement of objectives related to data availability, quality, and usage under their ownership. **Requirements:** * 5\-10 years of experience in data-related, transformation, or advanced analytics roles; preferably in the financial sector. * Solid experience in data management: modeling, quality, governance, availability, and consumption. * Experience in cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders. * Knowledge of data governance, analysis, and processing tools (SQL, Python, AWS, QuickSight, Collibra, etc.). **Key Competencies:** * Analytical and abstract thinking skills to understand data and its context. * Business acumen combined with technical knowledge. * Ability to work in complex, dynamic, and transforming environments. * Skill to align multiple stakeholders (business, technology, risk, compliance). * Experience with agile methodologies and iterative work. **Responsible Banking** --------------------- Our responsible banking model **aims to build a more inclusive and sustainable society.** Because the future of finance is financing the future. We began with the spirit of helping others make the best financial decisions. That spirit remains today and inspires us to keep moving forward—prioritizing innovation and digital transformation—and making the opportunities of this new era accessible to all. **Diversity** -------------- At BBVA, we believe that having a **diverse team** makes us a better bank. For this reason, we **actively support diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity**, regardless of race, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and other factors. We cultivate a collaborative and inclusive work environment that enables each person to show their best self. **Our Values** -------------------- **Our values define our identity** and serve as the driving force behind realizing our purpose and guiding all our actions and decisions. **Legal Requirements** If the position you are applying for is located outside the country where you currently reside, you may need to obtain a visa and/or work permit and/or residence permit, as well as comply with any other requirements mandated by local labor and immigration regulations or applicable professional regulations for the position in that country. In the event you are selected as the final candidate, BBVA may assist you in processing the corresponding permit/visa, with the understanding that if, for any reason, (i.) the relevant visa and/or work permit and/or residence permit is not issued, or (ii.) any other requirements mandated by local labor and/or immigration and/or professional regulations applicable to performing the role in that country are not met, you will unfortunately be excluded from the position. Likewise, if you already hold a visa and/or work permit and/or residence permit for the relevant country, please indicate so when applying for the position.