Job Title: Data Governance Analyst Location: Richmond, VA (Hybrid 2 days per week) Job Duration: 12 -months with possible extension
Interview Mode: Both Web Cam and In Person Interview
Job Description: The Data Governance Analyst will support the implementation of an agency-wide Enterprise Data Governance Program. The role will work closely with Data Owners, Data Stewards, Business Owners, Enterprise Architecture, Data Engineers, Project Teams, and Information Security. The position focuses on establishing trusted and governed enterprise data supporting both operational and analytical use cases, with data being ingested into an AWS Data Platform and consumed through Snowflake.
Key Responsibilities
Support implementation of the Enterprise Data Governance Program.
Facilitate governance workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
Partner with Data Owners and Data Stewards to establish governance for enterprise datasets.
Develop and maintain governance policies, standards, procedures, and documentation.
Create and maintain metadata, data dictionaries, and the Enterprise Business Glossary.
Define and document Critical Data Elements (CDEs) and business rules.
Perform data profiling, reconciliation, validation, and data quality analysis.
Define and monitor data quality rules, metrics, and trends.
Document business and technical data lineage and end-to-end data flows.
Support governance across Bronze, Silver, Gold, ODS, and ADS data layers.
Support enterprise datasets published to Snowflake.
Collaborate with Data Engineers supporting Python-based AWS data pipelines.
Support data classification, retention, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), and internal data sharing.
Prepare governance dashboards, executive presentations, reports, and recommendations.
Communicate governance requirements to both business and technical teams.
Required Qualifications
10+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, Data Quality, Business Analysis, Metadata Management, or related disciplines.
10+ years of experience with Data Analysis.
10+ years of experience with Data Lineage / Data Cataloging.
10+ years of experience creating Data Policies and Procedures.
10+ years of strong SQL experience.
10+ years of Data Warehouse experience.
10+ years of Requirements Elicitation experience.
7+ years of experience with relational databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, or Snowflake.
Experience implementing enterprise Data Governance programs.
Experience facilitating governance workshops.
Experience with metadata, business glossaries, and data dictionaries.
Experience defining business rules and Critical Data Elements (CDEs).
Experience with data profiling, reconciliation, and validation.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Skills: Experience with the following technologies is highly desirable:
AWS
Amazon S3
AWS Glue / Glue Data Catalog
AWS Lake Formation
Snowflake
Python
SQL
Power BI
SharePoint
Preferred Industry Experience Experience in healthcare, behavioral health, Medicaid is highly desirable.
Numbers & Facts
Location
Richmond, VA
Skills
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)unmatched
Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
Behavioral Healthunmatched
Business Analysisunmatched
Cataloguingunmatched
Communication Skillsunmatched
Data Analysisunmatched
Data Managementunmatched
Data Profilingunmatched
Data Qualityunmatched
Data Setsunmatched
Data Warehousingunmatched
Documentationunmatched
Enterprise Architectureunmatched
Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
Medicaidunmatched
Metadataunmatched
Microsoft SQL Serverunmatched
Microsoft SharePointunmatched
Operational Auditunmatched
Operational Supportunmatched
Oracle Databaseunmatched
Policy Developmentunmatched
Power BIunmatched
Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
Procedure Developmentunmatched
Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
Quality Metricsunmatched
Quality Monitoringunmatched
Reconciliationunmatched
Relational Databases (RDBMS)unmatched
Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
Snowflake Schemaunmatched
Software Engineeringunmatched
Technical Writingunmatched
Use Casesunmatched
Writing Skillsunmatched
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