Role Description:

The External Data Assets Lead will be responsible for optimizing spend and reuse of external data. This role is responsible for maintaining a data catalog with harmonized metadata across functions to increase visibility, promote reuse, and lower the annual spend. The External Data Assets Lead will assess investments in external data and will provide recommendations to the Enterprise Data Council to inform investment approval. This role will work with Global Strategic Sourcing and the Cyber Security Team to standardize contracting of data purchases. The External Data Assets Lea will also work closely with the data engineering team and external data providers to manage the lifecycle of the data assets.

This role will be responsible for co-defining and operationalizing the business process to capture metadata related to the forecast of data purchases. The person in this role will coordinate activities at the tactical level, interpreting Enterprise Data Council direction and defining operational level impact deliverables and actions to maximize data investments.





Roles & Responsibilities:
- Responsible for cataloging all external data assets, including the harmonization of metadata to increase reuse and inform future data acquisitions.
- Co-develop and maintain the process to consistently capture external data purchase forecast, focusing on generating the required metadata to support KPIs and reporting.
- Responsible for working with Global Strategic Sourcing and Cyber Security teams to standardize data contracts to enable the reuse of data assets across functions.
- In partnership with functional data SMEs, develop internal expertise on the content of external data to increase reuse across teams. This includes, but is not limited to, participating in data seminars to bring together data SMEs from all functions to increase data literacy.
- In partnership with the Data Engineering team, design data standardization rules to make external data FAIR from

📌 External Data Assets Lead (Hyderabad)
🏢 Amgen
📍 Hyderabad