Data Governance Analyst
About the role
The Data Governance Analyst plays a key role in advancing enterprise data governance initiatives by partnering with data owners, data stewards, and technical teams to deliver high-quality, business-driven solutions. This position supports the implementation and ongoing management of data governance capabilities, including data cataloging, master data management, data quality, and data profiling. The analyst ensures governance initiatives are aligned with business requirements, deliver measurable value, and promote the integrity, consistency, and usability of organizational data.
Responsibilities
- Data Governance
- Execute enterprise Data Governance policies, standards, and procedures
- Promote data literacy and foster a data-centric culture across the organization
- Ensure assigned data domains comply with governance standards
- Advocate change management efforts related to data governance adoption and tool implementation
- Data Quality
- Develop and monitor data quality metrics and KPIs
- Identify data quality issues and coordinate remediation activities
- Analyze root causes of data defects
- Partner with data owners and data stewards to define business validation rules
- Support continuous improvement initiatives
- Metadata Management
- Maintain business glossary terms
- Create and maintain business definitions
- Document data lineage with technical teams
- Maintain metadata within the enterprise data catalog
- Ensure metadata remains current and accurate
- Master Data Management (MDM)
- Define and maintain master data standards
- Review master data creation and change requests
- Aid in duplicate record identification and resolution
- Ensure consistency across systems
- Participate in MDM implementation initiatives
- Support survivorship and matching rule definitions
- Data Catalog Management
- Support Data Owners and Data Stewards in business metadata within the data catalog
- Classify data assets
- Support catalog adoption throughout the organization
- Collaborate with technical stewards to improve metadata quality
- Business Data Ownership
- Partner with Data Owners and Data Stewards to establish accountability
- Avoid redundant data collection
- Improve data capture at the source
- Coordinate business decisions regarding data standards
- Business Process Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve data collection processes
- Recommend process enhancements
- Eliminate redundant data collection
- Reduce manual work through standardization
Requirements
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or related field; or relevant experience. Experience: 5+ years of experience in data governance, data management, data analysis or related disciplines.
Qualifications
Travel: 10%
Benefits
This position works between the hours of 7 AM and 5 PM, Monday- Friday. However, work may be performed at any time on any day of the week to meet business needs.
For more information about FTI’s benefits, please visit FTI’s website.
Faith Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – veterans/disabled.