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A Data Governance Program Manager is responsible for developing and overseeing policies, procedures, and standards that ensure the effective management, quality, security, and compliance of an organization’s data assets. They coordinate efforts across departments to implement data governance frameworks, enforce data policies, and monitor adherence to regulatory requirements. Their role often involves leading teams, managing projects, and ensuring that data is used ethically and efficiently throughout the organization.
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Data Governance Analyst

Pull Skil

Jersey City, NJ • Remote

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Posted 29 days ago

Job description

Company Description

Pull Skill Technologies

Job Description

Job Title: Business Analyst with Data Quality / Governance

Position Type: 6 Months Contract

Location: REMOTE

Reports To: Project Manager

Manager Notes: Need someone with background in Data Governance

Summary/ Objective

 

Responsibilities

         Document, assess, influence, and synthesize business requirements to develop, enable, and advance data governance and stewardship capabilities

         Serve as a dedicated liaison to a community of Business Data Stewards and other stakeholders by providing mentorship and guidance on data governance processes, capabilities, and best practices

         Be the expert in the use of, establish standards for, configure, and provide training on data governance technologies with a concentration on the data glossary and catalog tools

         Act as technical support to Business Data Owners and Data Stewards

         Facilitate and promote usage and adoption of the data governance tools, particularly among business users

         Utilize the data quality technology to design and develop rules, mappings, and transformations to measure and improve the quality of data as well as routines and algorithms to identify and match potential duplicate records

         Create, deploy, and execute workflows to automate data quality procedures and escalate identified exceptions and defects to Business Data Stewards for remediation

         Develop candidate Key Performance Indicators and dashboards to measure the success and ROI of the data governance program with a concentration on the data glossary and catalog

         Maintain and promote key data governance deliverables/assets, including data policies, data standards, and data management roles and decision frameworks.

         Support design of future state concept of operations through the analysis of business process models and data flow diagrams

         Interact with business and technical peers in the evaluation of emerging industry trends and technologies relevant to data management

Position Requirements

         Elicit requirements from clients

         Analyze and research existing client practices and procedures

         Work closely with Project Managers and Principals on documentation making sure to meet all milestones.

         Define Business terms

         Manage Data Quality Position Requirements

         Excellent written and verbal skills

         Deep understanding of requirements of management process

         Experience with business glossaries, data standards and data quality

         Team player

         Organized

         Ability to lead meetings and manage meetings

Qualifications Experience:

         5+ years' experience working with large enterprises

         5+ years' experience being a Business Analyst

         Consulting experience

         Working knowledge of SQL a plus

Education:

Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent work experience

Thanks & Regards,

Nick Arthur (Nizam)

Associate Director | IT Recruitment  - US Staffing

Desk: 201-497-1010 EXT 106 |nick(at)pullskill.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nick-arthur-83937b62

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