StepStone Group is a global private markets specialist delivering tailored investment solutions and data-driven insights to investors. The Data Analyst will support Master Data Management processes within a cloud data warehouse environment, focusing on creating unified records from various data sources and ensuring data quality and governance.
Responsibilities
- Support MDM initiatives in defining, modelling, and maintaining master data entities
- Contributes to the overall success of SPAR private markets data universe for Asset Level / Portfolio Companies
- Gather, reconcile, clean, standardize, deduplicate, and merge asset data from internal systems and external databases to create trusted 'golden records.'
- Build records matching/merging logic and rules for mastering data (deterministic, fuzzy matching, conflict resolution)
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand domain definitions, business rules, data lineage, and exceptions
- Work with operational leadership to develop and improve a system of controls and periodic updates to ensure proprietary data systems remain current and accurate
- Implement data quality checks, validations, and anomaly detection to ensure accuracy and consistency of master data
- Create and maintain documentation, definitions, governance rules and metadata for master data assets
- Assist in establishing governance, stewardship, and versioning processes
- Integrate master data processes with broader extract, load and transform (ELT) workflows and Snowflake data models
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Economics, Finance, or related quantitative or qualitative field
- Hands on experience with public or private markets data systems / data sets
- Awareness of private markets and experience working within private markets industry
- Ability to work in teams including excellent communication skills, time management, and ability to work with internal clients to develop process for constant improvement
- 1–3 years of experience or relevant coursework in data analysis, data engineering, or MDM-related roles
- Strong SQL skills for data profiling, transformation, and potentially reconciliation in Snowflake
- Understanding of data mastering, data modeling, ETL/ELT processes, and data integration concepts
- Interest in private markets or financial data
- Analytical mindset with attention to detail and the ability to manage complex, evolving data
- Strong communication skills to collaborate with technical teams and business stakeholders
- Prior experience in MDM, data governance, or data stewardship is a plus
- Significant experience with Microsoft Excel including experience designing matching/merging logic, fuzzy joins, or reconciliation workflows
- Experience with python and programming a bonus
- Familiarity with metadata management, version control, and data catalog tools
- Exposure to financial or investment data domains
- Familiarity with Python or similar scripting for automation is a plus
Company Overview
StepStone Group provides investors with customized portfolios that integrate primaries, secondaries, and co-investments. It was founded in 2007, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.stepstonegroup.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
StepStone Group has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 10 in 2025, 10 in 2024, 9 in 2023, 4 in 2022, 6 in 2021, 6 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.