Data Governance Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina.

📋 Description

• Establish and provide support for effective data governance frameworks, encompassing ownership, stewardship, standards, controls, decision rights, and escalation processes.

• Collaborate with business data owners and stewards to define essential data elements, business terminology, data quality expectations, and acceptance criteria.

• Sustain and enhance the enterprise data catalog, which includes metadata, business definitions, ownership, lineage, and relationships to analytics products.

• Coordinate the prioritization and resolution of data quality issues while monitoring corrective actions.

• Define and manage reusable data products, detailing their purpose, target users, business outcomes, service expectations, adoption metrics, and lifecycle requirements.

• Advocate for governed data products and sustainable analytics solutions that align with privacy, security, and compliance mandates.

• Integrate data governance principles within AI-enabled products and enterprise digital transformation projects.

• Identify analytics requirements, articulate business outcomes, and convert necessities into user stories, acceptance criteria, and deliverables.

• Own and prioritize analytics product backlogs and strategic roadmaps.

• Guide analytics solutions throughout the stages of discovery, design, development, implementation, adoption, continuous improvement, and retirement.

• Lead initiatives for reporting modernization and rationalization.

• Provide product ownership for the existing Qlik reporting ecosystem.

• Coordinate cross-functional delivery teams and external partners, facilitating Agile activities, managing dependencies, and communicating project progress, risks, and decisions.

• Encourage stakeholder engagement, including product demonstrations, user acceptance testing, release readiness, and overall adoption.

• Support SAP S/4HANA and other enterprise transformation projects.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Management, Business, Technology, Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.

• Over 8 years of experience in data governance, data management, business intelligence, analytics product ownership, business analysis, or digital product delivery.

• Proven experience in implementing or supporting enterprise data governance practices, including data ownership, stewardship, metadata management, data quality, and governance controls.

• Demonstrated ability to manage analytics products or reporting portfolios, including requirements gathering, backlog prioritization, delivery coordination, stakeholder engagement, and product lifecycle management.

• Strong knowledge of analytics product management, business requirements analysis, Agile delivery methodologies, and user acceptance processes.

• Capability to interpret data flows, models, and technical dependencies without needing direct data engineering expertise.

• Exceptional communication, problem-solving, organizational, and stakeholder management abilities.

• Proficiency in English is required.

• Authorized to work in the United States without the need for sponsorship.

• Preferred: experience with Qlik Sense or similar business intelligence solutions.

• Preferred: familiarity with Alation, Databricks, or comparable technologies.

• Preferred: experience in supporting ERP modernization, SAP S/4HANA implementations, or enterprise reporting transformation projects.

• Preferred: knowledge of data product lifecycle management, reporting rationalization, and reusable enterprise analytics solutions.

• Preferred: experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams, external suppliers, or globally distributed delivery resources.

• Preferred: understanding of AI-enabled analytics and large language model (LLM) applications.

• Preferred: experience in applying change management and stakeholder engagement strategies.

🏝️ Benefits

• A culture that values belonging and collaboration, encourages professional growth, and strives for a work-life balance that benefits all team members.

• Flexible work arrangements to accommodate your personal and professional needs.

• Comprehensive Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) effective from your first day.

• 401k plan with company matching.

• Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution.

• Paid Vacation.

• Paid Holidays.

• Maternity and Paternity Leave.

• Education Assistance.

• Wellness Programs.

• Corporate Discounts.