Data Governance Analyst -Austin, TX (Onsite)

Major Responsibilities

• Governance Operations & Process Execution: Lead the implementation of enterprise data governance frameworks, ensuring alignment with data strategy, regulatory requirements, and business goals.
  • Provide guidance on best practices for governing data across domains and lines of business.
  • Coordinate manage, and document governance-related work sessions and stakeholder engagements.
  • Lead the execution of key data governance processes across business domains.
  • Develop and maintain artifacts and documents related to data governance.
  • Define and implement data quality (DQ) rules; assist in the QA of rule execution, results analysis, and reporting.
  • Monitor, track, and communicate progress against governance deliverables and milestones.
  • Oversee ongoing compliance with data quality and governance standards across domains.
  • Develop and document methodology for implementing data governance programs/projects across the enterprise.
  • Cook up with and support data stewards responsible to ensure Data Governance best practices and expectations are being implemented and met.
• Data Catalog & Metadata Management: Maintain the enterprise data catalog by ensuring data assets are properly documented, classified, and maintained.
  • Work with subject matter experts to write articles for the Data Glossary.
  • Support enhancements to catalog usability and adoption by gathering stakeholder feedback and implementing improvements.
  • Aid in the development of catalog training materials, user guides, and best practices documentation.
  • Track adoption of the data catalogue and implement processes and engagement tactics to improve utilization.
• Self-Service Enablement & Data Literacy: Promote and support self-service data access and analytics capabilities across the organization.
  • Facilitate training sessions and workshops to improve data literacy and promote the use of governance tools.
  • Act as a liaison between business users and technical teams to ensure data access issues are resolved and user needs are met.
• Tooling Support & Adoption: Support the evaluation, implementation, and integration of metadata management and governance tools with enterprise data platforms.
  • Provide operational support for governance tools, including issue resolution, user onboarding, and documentation updates.
  • Help track tool adoption and provide feedback to enhance user experience and effectiveness.
  • Research, analyze, and provide recommendations of tools to support data governance needs.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with data stewards, data owners, business analysts, and IT teams to ensure governance activities align with enterprise goals.
  • Communicate governance objectives, priorities, and status updates to stakeholders in a clear and transparent manner.
  • Serve as liaison for data governance efforts to align with other enterprise information management components, (master data, data quality, metadata management, etc.) across the organization.
  • Build and maintain relationships with a wide variety of internal organizations (business owners, practices, departments) to understand current and future information and data needs and strategy.
  • Track data governance action items, issues, and priorities to ensure standards and priorities for data integrity, consolidation, consistency and metadata development are met.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree Information Systems, Business Administration, or Similar
• Master's degree Information Systems, Business Administration, or Similar
• 5+ years of experience in a combination of data management and data governance roles
• 3+ years of experience in implementing data governance in a business environment

Licenses, Certifications, & Training

• Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)

Physical Demands

• Service and Quality Excellence
• Honor our Mission and Values
• Effective Decision Making
• Attain and Leverage Strategic Relationships
• Lead and Develop Others
• Communicate with Impact
• Drive Execution and Financial Results

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors

• Service and Quality Excellence
• Honor our Mission and Values
• Effective Decision Making
• Attain and Leverage Strategic Relationships
• Lead and Develop Others
• Communicate with Impact
• Drive Execution and Financial Results