Senior Data Governance Analyst
Role Overview
Creates and implements an integrated roadmap for all aspects of data governance.
Ensures data is secure, private, accurate, available, and usable, with data strategy and management practices aligned to business objectives.
The role primarily supports a business group and may have broader enterprise-wide scope.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Creates and implements an integrated roadmap for all aspects of data governance.
Ensures data is secure, private, accurate, available, and usable, with data strategy and management practices aligned to business objectives.
The role primarily supports a business group and may have broader enterprise-wide scope.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and monitor data governance policies and procedures; deploy technologies and ensure standards compliance.
- Interpret enterprise governance guidelines and communicate policy changes.
- Promote governance best practices, enforce policy, and harmonize data collaboratively across business units.
- Establish, maintain, periodically review, and recommend changes to policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
- Conduct audits to ensure program policies, procedures, and metrics support maintenance and improvement.
- Align governance policy with business strategy and drive organizational change to maximize data value and reduce risk.
- Provide specialized consulting, analytical, and technical support; solve problems independently, including non-routine situations.
- Apply the bank's Risk Management Framework, approved risk appetite, applicable policies, laws, and regulations when making decisions.
Qualifications
- Typically 5–7 years of relevant experience and a post-secondary degree in a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Deep knowledge and technical proficiency gained through extensive education and business experience.
- Foundational proficiency in information and data strategy and managing change.
- Advanced proficiency in data governance, IT standards and governance, data integrity, data quality, and metadata management.
- Intermediate proficiency in privacy governance technology enablement, data privacy, enterprise data management, ontology design, and master data management.
- Verbal and written communication, collaboration, analytical and problem-solving, influence, and data-driven decision-making skills.
Nice to have
- Understanding of system and data designs.
- Experience in data risk management or data governance operations.
- Experience with a risk management tool such as Archer.
- Procedure design and documentation experience.
Compensation
- The stated annual salary range is $70,000 to $150,000; pay type is salaried.
- Compensation may vary by location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications; incentives and other rewards may also be offered.
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