Data Governance Analyst

Data Ideology

At DI we provide Data & Analytics expertise to drive measurable business outcomes often solving complex business problems for our clients. Our data analytics advisory services enable our customers to transform data into insights by driving a culture of empowerment and ownership of results. Our team consists of highly motivated individuals passionate about learning understanding collaborating and intellectually more information about Data Ideology

Data Governance Analyst

We are seeking a hands-on Data Governance Analyst to operate at the intersection of data governance analytics technology and the business. This is not a policy-only governance role. The ideal candidate will work directly with business and technology stakeholders to understand data document and improve how it is governed analyze issues and turn governance objectives into practical right person will be comfortable moving between stakeholder conversations data definitions data quality metadata SQL-based analysis reporting and governance processes.

What Success Looks Like

The successful candidate will help the organization make its data more:

• Trusted
• Understandable
• Consistent
• Accessible to the right people
• Measurable
• Governed in a practical usable way

They should be able to take an ambiguous data problem work with stakeholders to understand it dig into the underlying data where necessary and drive the issue toward more information about Data Ideology visit

Responsibilities
To perform in this position successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Other duties may be assigned to meet business needs.

• Partner with business data technology and governance stakeholders to identify and address data governance needs.
• Facilitate conversations with data owners and subject-matter experts to establish definitions ownership standards and appropriate usage of data.
• Support development and maintenance of business glossaries data dictionaries metadata data standards and governance documentation.
• Assist with data quality initiatives by identifying analyzing documenting and helping remediate data issues.
• Perform hands-on data analysis using SQL or similar tools to investigate governance and data-quality questions.
• Analyze datasets to validate business rules definitions completeness consistency and accuracy.
• Help translate business requirements into measurable data rules and governance requirements.
• Support data access sharing and usage-governance processes.
• Build or maintain reporting dashboards or metrics that provide visibility into data quality and governance activities.
• Work across teams to improve governance workflows and reduce manual or inefficient processes.
• Communicate findings clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Help move governance initiatives from discussion and documentation into repeatable operational processes.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Business Computer Science Information Systems or a related field required. Advanced degree preferred.

• Approximately 25 years of experience in data governance data analytics business/data analysis or a related discipline.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders data owners technical teams or senior leadership.

• Strong Plus

• Experience in banking financial services or another regulated industry.
• Experience with enterprise data governance or data-quality platforms.
• Familiarity with Informatica or comparable governance/data-quality tooling.
• Experience with cloud data platforms or modern data environments.
• Experience automating data reporting or governance workflows.
• Exposure to master data management customer data hierarchy management or enterprise metadata.
• Working knowledge of:
  • Data governance
  • Data quality
  • Metadata and data definitions
  • Data ownership/stewardship
  • Data access and usage
• Hands-on SQL experience and the ability to investigate and analyze data independently.
• Experience with reporting or visualization tools such as Power BI Tableau Looker or similar platforms.
• Ability to translate between business requirements and technical/data concepts.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Organized curious analytical and comfortable in environments where not every requirement is initially defined.

The strongest candidate will have the technical aptitude to investigate data independently while remaining comfortable working directly with business stakeholders.

Work Environment:

• Remote work from home.
• Hours of work and days are generally Monday through Friday. Specific business hours will depend on client needs.

Physical Demands:

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.
• The person in this position must occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets library stacks office machinery etc.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery such as a calculator copy machine and printer.
• The person in this position frequently communicates with clients and coworkers. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.

Data Ideology is an EEO Employer