Lead Data Governance BA

Job#: 2027854

Job Description:

• Functions as an outcome-oriented enterprise data governance subject matter expert
• Effectively communicates the importance of data and analytics governance, stewardship, and fluency.
• Drives initiatives to improve data quality across the organization.
• Helps the organization establish common stewardship practices, policies, and metrics to manage data and analytics consistently across the enterprise.
• Supports program adoption and effectiveness across the enterprise, aiding with program metrics and monitoring, program scoping and resource requirements, communication, collaboration, and ideation on improving program efforts.
• Enables the expansion of data stewardship throughout the enterprise.
• Provides user training, education, and documentation to support adoption of consistent governance best practices.
• Partners with business stakeholders on data governance initiatives
• Engage with business partners and teammates on data governance roadmaps.
• Oversees the design and deployment of data governance tools and platforms.
• Stays abreast of best practices and introduces them to the organization.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in Microsoft Purview is a plus.

• Data Governance and Data Quality Management: Strong understanding of data quality dimensions, methodologies, and best practices to establish and maintain data quality standards and processes.
• Data Governance and Metadata Management: Proficiency in data governance and metadata management solutions to enable efficient data discovery, data lineage tracing, and data asset management.
• Data Governance Frameworks and Policies: Proficiency in implementing and managing data governance frameworks, policies, and standards to ensure data quality, integrity, and compliance.
• Data Governance Tools: Familiarity with data governance tools and technologies that facilitate data management, metadata management, and data governance workflows.
• Data Stewardship and Governance Metrics: Proficiency in data stewardship practices, including data classification, metadata management, data lineage, and data lifecycle management.
• Data Strategy Alignment and Data Cataloging: Proficiency in data cataloging tools and metadata management solutions to enable efficient data discovery, data lineage tracing, and data asset management.

• Excellent communication skills
• Self-starter who delivers prompt, efficient quality service and seeks to understand business needs.
• Ability to engage IT partners and business partners to achieve target outcomes.
• Ability to clearly define and communicate user requirements with experience in converting business/techno-functional requirements to use cases and/or user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Demonstrates knowledge of Agile methodology

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