_{15th October, 2025}

Data Governance Specialist #1038856
Job Description:

• The Third-Party Data Acquisition team works closely with Data Platform, Data Governance, IT, internal business partners, and external data providers to deliver third-party data required to support business objectives.
• The Data Acquisition Specialist will contribute thought leadership as an SME and is responsible for managing existing vendor relationships and contracts as well as delivering innovative solutions (e.g. novel vendor selection) to internal customers within GDI&A and company.

 
Tasks:

• Third-Party Data discovery and acquisition efforts including: internal customer engagement, requirement gathering, data landscape review, vendor negotiation, terms & conditions review, purchasing & data management
• Work closely with Purchasing and Legal to provide guidance to data-centric legal terms, statements of work, terms and conditions negotiations as well all other agreements required to engage with an external vendor.
• Drive reuse of acquired 3rd party data with internal customers through internal advocacy & customer engagement
• Ensures that Data Acquisition program strategies are aligned with overall organizational goals and objectives including engaging internal stakeholders to identify all uses of individual datasets and estimating value realized
• Establishes and maintains consistent program management processes and standards for the enablement of Third-Party data

 
Complexity:

• Deliver innovation and technical excellence in a complex, highly interdependent environment with challenging financial, technical and project management constraints
• Drive for results: persevere and persist in situations with multiple objectives and multi-variable problems.

 
Relationship Management:

• Aligns GDI&A and business stakeholders to drive results and where (issue resolution, risk mitigation, issue avoidance)
• Interfaces with business customers, vendors and other GDI&A groups
• Provides departmental feedback to other GDI&A groups regarding processes and standards

 
Skills Required:

• Program Management

 
Skills Preferred:

• Vendor Management

 
Experience Required:

• Specialist Exp: 5+ experience in relevant field

 
Education Required:

• Bachelor's Degree

 
Additional Info:
 
At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra.  We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.
We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years!
FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused.
We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.
Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:
 

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

 
Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.
FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023!
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