HarperCollins
is hiring
Business Analyst
About Our Company
HarperCollins Publishers is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world.
Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing operations in 17 countries. With two hundred years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world, HarperCollins publishes approximately 10,000 new books every year in 16 languages, and has a print and digital catalog of more than 200,000 titles. Writing across dozens of genres, HarperCollins authors include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, and the Man Booker Prize. HarperCollins is a subsidiary of News Corp.
The house of Mark Twain, the Brontë sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, and Margaret Wise Brown, HarperCollins has a long and rich history that reaches back to the early nineteenth century and offers our publishing team a depth of experience that few others can rival—from the modest print shop that James and John Harper opened in 1817 to the global house we are today.
Job Description & Responsibilities
This is a remote position, but East Coast is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Works with data owners and custodians to develop and implement data governance processes, standards, and procedures.
- Performs analysis to gain subject matter expertise for various data domains to document current data flows, identify data silos, data duplications, and inconsistencies, and recommends solutions for resolution.
- Leads the data governance committee(s) of various domains to align data definitions and maintain common schemas.
- Collaborates with data owners and other cross-functional teams to document data inventory, definitions, and data mappings for integrations and data quality rules.
- Works with various technology groups to implement governance solutions and standards, controls, and validations in various source applications.
- Develops and maintains data quality standards and metrics.
- Monitors and ensure compliance with data governance policies and procedures.
- Provides training and support to stakeholders on data governance policies and procedures.
Requirements
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in data governance, business analysis, or related data field
- Strong understanding of data modeling and database design with the ability to write and run complex SQL queries
- Knowledge of metadata management tools and data catalogs for implementing governance policies and tracking data lineage, data ownership, and documenting glossary and definitions
- Understanding data integration and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tools for ensuring data consistency and integrity across different systems and applications
- Familiarity with relevant technologies such as SQL Server, Big Query, Azure Synapse, Power BI among others
- Experience in project management, business analysis, or a related field
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
What we offer
HarperCollins Publishers is a company full of people who are passionate about books. When you apply for a position, we want to know why you want to work here, and why you are interested in the job. That’s why cover letters are strongly preferred.
The salary range for this position is $75,000-$90,000. We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.
In addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.
