Data Steward (Information Technology)

Position Title: Data Steward (P3)

For more than three decades, Crown Castle has led the way in shared communications infrastructure, delivering profitable solutions by connecting communities, businesses, and people, and enabling each to thrive with reliable access to voice and data in more places, faster than ever before. When you join Crown Castle, you become part of a dynamic team of passionate and collaborative professionals engaging in complex challenges and contributing to projects that shape the future of life and work.

Role

We are driving digital transformation by leading with data. As a Data Steward you will be part of a larger team facilitating a data-driven culture, helping to make our Tower data accessible, reliable, and secure.  Becoming a Data Steward will be a unique opportunity to build this capability from the ground up, which will provide you with unique skillsets and experiences to further your development.

In support of Tower data, the Data Steward plays a critical role in ensuring that foundational data—such as contract, sales & marketing, and order delivery — is consistently accurate, complete, and aligned across systems. This role partners closely with cross-functional teams including Assets, Supply Chain, and Finance to maintain data integrity and streamline workflows. By proactively identifying data quality issues, implementing governance standards, and enabling trusted reporting, the Data Steward helps drive operational efficiency, informed decision-making, and scalable growth across the Tower business.

Relatable Experience for this Role

• Understanding of data hierarchies
• Proven experience in a business role executing and implementing change
• Experience in managing deliverables, tasks, and strategic initiatives while engaging with stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to present business & technical concepts to internal audiences of varying levels of the enterprise
• Self-directed teammate who can take high level direction and deliver against the objective
• Thrive in a changing environment with the ability to solve problems, think abstractly, and deliver results

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure adherence to data management standards and data quality
• Oversee activities surrounding the data governance lifecycle (assess, define, govern, transform)
• Identify and drive resolution to data issues, maintain issue repository, and manage resolution
• Perform audits to ensure data quality processes and policies are followed and identify data-related process improvement opportunities

• Actively promote the use of accepted data definitions, common reference data, sound data usage practices, and data literacy
• Enhance and maintain data catalog

Education/Certifications

• College degree in a technical field (computer science, engineering, life science) or equivalent work experience

Experience/Minimum Requirements

• 3+ years of experience with working in data governance or business intelligence
• High degree of initiative and capacity to lead multiple priorities of significant scope
• Skillful in communicating and influencing a wide range of stakeholders

New Skills and Experiences you will Gain in this Role:

• Exposure to data management tools
• Ability to profile data and define proactive data quality rules for your domain(s)
• Implement Data Governance processes, policies, business rules, data quality rules, data definitions, data classifications, metadata, etc.
• Provide input to data quality issue prioritization and remediation plans
• Interpret and implement Data Governance processes, policies, business rules, data quality rules, data definitions, data classifications, metadata, etc.
• Support efforts to build metadata repositories, business glossary, data lineage, and training materials

• Engage with the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) capability leads (Data Governance, Metadata Management, and Master Data Management) to ensure data quality assets align

• Ensure alignment of the enterprise data governance processes and standards with relevant line of business data support

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This role falls into our hybrid work model, which is 2-days work from home (Monday and Friday) and 3-days in the office (Tuesday through Thursday) to optimize collaboration, relationship building and key stakeholder engagement and may require some travel as needed.

Compensation
The salary range offered for this position is $84000 - $115400 annually. A candidate's offer is determined by various factors including but not limited to, depth of experience, role-related knowledge and skills, relevant education or training, internal alignment, and work location. Depending on the position offered, the compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of a discretionary annual cash bonus or commissions, and equity incentives.

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