Data Governance Analyst - Orlando, FL (Onsite, no remote)

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. Coordinate with and support data stewards responsible to ensure Data Governance best practices and expectations are being implemented and met.
• Support metadata curation and cataloging to enhance data discoverability and usability.
• Review, develop, and edit policies in support of Data Governance principles. Develop processes to hold others’ accountable to the Data Governance policies and create a means to determine and track compliance on an ongoing basis.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• Assist 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.

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.

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.

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.