DATA GOVERNANCE ANALYST

This position is primarily responsible for the implementation of data governance program. The incumbent works with the Director to develop data governance policies, standards and guiding principles. The incumbent will lead the data governance council and interact with senior management, and business and IT leaders to deploy data governance. 

Primary Responsibilities:
Works with Risk, Audit and Compliance stakeholders to implement or modify necessary policies, procedures and guiding principles to fill current and future Data Governance Gaps. 
Works with lines of business, documents critical data elements, understanding data lineage, data transformation, reporting and ultimately how it feeds into business decisions and actions.
Develops Corporate KRI reports for data governance and provide them regularly to the required stakeholders and contribute to status meetings.
Collaborates with ITBS teams on required Data Governance IT projects to ensure data change assessments are completed in a timely manner. Assists in identifying data issues and provides insight on issues as how they might impact the data and business analysis.
Connects with data stakeholders across the organization, champions data ownership, develops training for data owners and data stewards on data governance. 
Leads corporate data governance initiatives, owns/manages the business glossaries and deployment of data governance tool. 

Desired Skillset
Very strong familiarity with data discovery techniques and tools
Very strong familiarity with data profiling techniques and tools
Very strong familiarity with metadata issues and processes
Experience in system data mapping and tracing
Experience defining, implementing, and managing data glossaries/dictionaries
Experience implementing MDM solutions
Deep understanding of master data management, data governance, and associated technologies.
Strong interpersonal communication and persuasion skills

Experience
Experience with data governance tools 
Experience in lineage creation (either manual or using a tool)
Experience with data cataloging tools