Summary: The Data Governance Analyst II role involves collaborating with IT, Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, and Data Science teams to establish and manage data governance policies and procedures. The analyst will also be responsible for developing a data governance framework, mentoring junior staff, and ensuring compliance with data governance standards. This position is critical for managing the company's internal data assets effectively. The role is remote and requires a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.

Key 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 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, and 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.
• 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.

Key Skills:

• Bachelor's degree or master's degree in an accredited four-year college in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent.
• A minimum of 5+ years of database and custom data warehouse design, testing, development, and architecture experience required, or equivalent experience in business process design and engineering.
• Experience in data governance, data quality, data migration, data prep, or data architecture within key ERP and business applications (such as SAP, Collibra, etc.) is a plus.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean) or Project Management a plus.
• Understanding of Cloud technologies (preferably AWS) is a plus. AWS Services for Data Lake such as S3, Glue, Athena, EMR, Lambda, etc.
• Critical Thinking: Ask questions, Dig-in, explore & come to new conclusions based on the findings.
• Intellectual curiosity and aptitude to pick up new technical skills.
• Must be skillful at verbal and written communication with both leadership teams and peer groups.
• Must be comfortable working with senior management, both on the business and technical sides. Must demonstrate ability to create professional relationships and effectively partner with and influence a cross-functional team.
• Must be able to develop a long-range course of action or set of goals to align with the organization's vision.
• Must be proactive in building and aligning stakeholders, capabilities, and resources for getting things done quickly and achieving complex objectives.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: United States

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT