Senior Data Governance Analyst

About the job Senior Data Governance Analyst

Job Summary

Candidate should be skilled at working with people, processes, and technology efficiently so that the company can implement and operationalize a comprehensive data governance toolset. The analyst will also partner with IT, Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, and Data Science teams to develop data governance policies, standards, and procedures, as well as designing and implementing training on standards and procedures

This candidate will play a key role in establishing, building, and managing the Data Catalog and other Data Governance tool capabilities so that the company is set up to manage its internal data assets.

Essential Duties / Responsibilities :

• Develops and deploys data governance framework / standards consisting of data policies and processes in the areas of data ingestion, data movement, data quality, master & reference data and data life cycle management
• Assists in developing and implementing enterprise tools to support Data Governance & Data Management, including Data Catalog, Metadata Management, Data Quality, Master & Reference Data Management
• Mentors and reviews work of less experienced staff.
• Coordinates with various stakeholders across various organizations to apply established data governance framework (developing data stewardship, data custodian roles, data dictionary, metadata management, and access controls).
• Ensures remediation plans are implemented where data fails to meet established data governance framework / standards.
• Support business owners and data stewards in addressing high priority enterprise data problems, recommend solutions and use of industry standards when appropriate.
• Detail oriented with the ability to analyze data and perform in depth data analysis
• Work across multiple business and technology teams, with the ability to perform data discovery, build data glossaries and catalogs, perform data analysis and data profiling.
• Business analysis including business process mapping and requirement definition
• Manage time independently, work independently and manage multiple open work streams at the same time
• Understand industry standard on system development life cycle (SDLC) phases, including the ability to provide guidance on how to document business requirements and impacts on process flows.
• Coordinate and communicate in a clear and timely manner on changes, issues and business impacts, among team members.
• Responsible for people management and performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements