Data Steward

Job Description

Join us and get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to literally build a local banking champion!

Yes, you can! That's our attitude towards our work, ambitions, ideas, and relationships. We at Luminor believe that anyone has the potential to achieve big things and encourage everyone to achieve them, professionally and personally.

Whoever you are and whatever your role is, with Luminor, you will get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build a local banking champion.

We are looking for a motivated and business-minded professional who can combine the strengths of Data Stewardship and Business Analysis into one impactful role. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys working with data, solving business challenges, improving processes, and connecting business needs with practical data solutions. You will play a key role in ensuring that our data is accurate, trusted, and fit for purpose, while also transforming business needs into clear requirements, insights, and improvements. Acting as a bridge between business and technical teams, you will help drive smarter decisions, better processes, and stronger business results.

• Take ownership of data quality within your business area (with focus on legal entities data, sales reporting) and ensure data is accurate, complete, and reliable.
• Define and maintain business aglossaries, data definitions, and metadata standards.
• Monitor data quality issues, perform root cause analysis, and coordinate remediation actions.
• Support implementation of data governance policies, standards, and best practices.
• Ensure data is compliant, consistent, and fit for business and regulatory purposes.
• Gather, analyze, and document business requirements for new initiatives, process changes, and data improvements.
• Translate business needs into clear functional and data requirements for delivery teams.
• Design and document data-related solutions, including data mappings, transformation logic, and business rules to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture.
• Maintain a holistic view of business and data requirements, ensuring traceability and identifying dependencies and synergies across the organization.
• Analyze data trends, business performance, and operational results on a need basis. Provide insights and recommendations to support decision-making.
• Support creation of dashboards, KPIs, and sales reporting.
• Help business teams better understand available data and how to use it effectively.
• Act as the key contact between business users, IT, Data Engineering, BI, and other stakeholders.
• Build strong relationships across functions to ensure successful delivery of initiatives.
• Facilitate workshops, meetings, and discussions to align priorities and solutions.
• Promote a data-driven culture across the organization.
• Share knowledge, coach colleagues, and support capability building within the team.

Requirements

• Educational background in Economics, Business Management, Finance, IT or any related field
• Proven work experience as Data Steward, Business Analyst, Reporting Analyst, IT System Analyst or similar
• At least 3 years professional experience in the area of data governance and data management
• At least 1 year experience with banking or other finance industry, good knowledge of the Bank products, processes and IT systems
• Very Good SQL knowledge, ability to work with large data sets to find quality issues, detect data structures etc.
• Very good understanding of data warehousing and reporting concepts and ability to apply and use in practice data profiling techniques
• Very good understanding of IT database structures/principles
• Very good knowledge of MS Office and Project management tools (e.g., Atlassian JIRA, Confluence)
• Ability to be a 3bridge4 between IT and business
• Problem solver mindset and attention to details
• Detail-oriented person while having excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Initiative and high-level of responsibility
• Good to advanced business knowledge with regulatory reporting experience across banking products, systems, processes, and financial data; Prior regulatory or financial reporting experience is a strong advantage
• Fluent English is required in spoken and written communication due to working on the Pan-Baltic level

Nice to have

• Experience in working with DWH, Tableau/PowerBI, Cloud Data Warehouse e.g. Kafka, Iceberg, BIAN, Snowflake/DataBrick, any ETL or Data Governance tool / solution will be considered as strong advantage
• Data Management or Data Stewardship certification would be considered as an advantage e.g. DAMA

Company offers

• Flexibility. Flexible working hours, Hybrid work, and the possibility to work from anywhere in the EU, Iceland, Switzerland, and the UK (in total 90 days per year)
• International teams. Teams that go outside Pan-Baltic borders, where people value challenging work together with good humor and having fun
• Culture. Youll be joining a team where things move fast, ideas flow freely, and change is part of the everyday. Its a dynamic environment that keeps you learning, growing, and never bored
• More vacation. Additional weeks of vacation are available to all employees who have been in the company for 1 year or more
• Volunteer time off. We care about giving back to society, therefore, you will get additional days off for volunteering purposes
• Paid leave. We are proud of our employees who are participating in military training. Therefore, Luminor offers 30 fully paid calendar days for military training every year
• Health benefits. A competitive benefits package in addition to your salary that includes health insurance after the first 3 months pass in all three Baltic states, as well as Health days in case of your absence due to sickness without a doctor's note needed
• Wellbeing. Access to tools and resources that help you feel good and be productive at work and in life
• Professional growth. Internal and external training programs, LinkedIn learning, workshops, conferences, online training, etc
• Special Offer for Luminor products & services. Enjoy special offers & pricing for products and services provided by Luminor