Senior Data Steward; Real Estate Property Data

At Cotality, we are driven by a single mission— to make the property industry faster, smarter, and more people‑centric. Cotality is the trusted source for property intelligence, with unmatched precision, depth, breadth, and insights across the entire ecosystem. Our talented team of 5,000 employees globally uses our network, scale, connectivity and technology to drive the largest asset class in the world.

Join us as we work toward our vision of fueling a thriving global property ecosystem and a more resilient society.

Cotality is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive work culture that inspires innovation and bold thinking; it's a place where you can collaborate, feel valued, develop skills and directly impact the real estate economy. We know our people are our greatest asset. At Cotality, you can be yourself, lift people up and make an impact. By putting clients first and continuously innovating, we're working together to set the pace for unlocking new possibilities that better serve the property industry.

The Property Data Steward is the Data Fluency Leader and Value Enabler for Cotality’s core property data assets (Tax Assessor, Appraisal, Transactions, and Derived Data). This is a strategic, high‑impact role responsible for moving Data Stewardship beyond basic curation into AI Enablement and Enterprise Confidence. As a dual role, you are the highest‑level expert in data fluency across the property domain and the data supply chain.

You act as the primary Business/Technology Liaison, responsible for ensuring all products, models, and decisions built on Cotality’s data have a strong foundation of data that is fit‑for‑use and has consistent interpretation. Your core mandate is to fundamentally unlock the strategic use of our data assets for the business by enforcing governance principles and enabling effective data consumption. You will champion the “why” behind governance, providing the essential scaffolding and framing the organization relies on, ensuring that data is Findable, Usable, Well Understood, and Trustworthy.

Your success will be measured by delivering AI‑Ready Data and championing AI‑Enabled Data Stewardship.

• Standard Advocacy & Policy Enablement:
  Support the creation and maintenance of the Data Stewardship Standard Handbook, which rolls up to the overarching Data Governance Policy. Your focus will be on operationalizing the spirit of the rule to accelerate business value, not on process constraints.
• Data Classification and Metadata Stewardship:
  Responsible for Metadata management and Classification of all core data fields in the property domains. You will champion and contribute to this process to ensure data assets are Findable, Usable, Understandable, and Trustworthy in alignment with Cotality's enterprise goals.
• Compliance and Permissible Use:
  Partner with data governance, data sourcing, and compliance to ensure appropriate permissible use standards are tagged and enforced.
• Center of Excellence (CoE) Leadership:
  Drive the adoption of stewardship principles through the CoE, acting as the subject matter expert to democratize governance functions across non‑FTE roles in Product, Operations, and Data Science.

• Strategic Data Asset Readiness & Fit‑for‑Use:
  Champion the fitness‑for‑purpose of data assets for all business use cases, from critical production products to future exploratory needs. Partnering with Data Quality and Engineering teams to define and refine quality metrics and scorecards based on domain knowledge.
• Proactively drive action plans for data improvement based on quality scores, assessing urgency and recommending whether to adjust governance rules or the data itself.
• Strategically catalog the schema and classify data across projects (Critical, Informative, Exploratory) to accelerate time‑to‑value.
• Data Feasibility and Product Advisory:
  Conduct in‑depth analysis and research to advise Product, Data Science, and Engineering teams on Fitness‑for‑Use of data assets.
• Define and Govern Ontology:
  Partner with stakeholders to define a…