IT Staff Analyst - File Share, Access Permission

Job Title: Staff IT Analyst III

Location: Phoenix AZ

Job Description

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Data Governance Analyst to support enterprise data governance efforts, with a primary focus on file share oversight and control execution.

This role is responsible for

1. detecting non-compliant activities related to data retention, access, and security.
2. executing and tracking governance controls.
3. and maintaining audit-ready evidence. In addition, the analyst will play a critical role in establishing governance controls and procedural documentation, as well as supporting the onboarding and migration of environments into active governance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor dashboards and reports to detect activities out of compliance with retention, data security, or access management policies.
• Work with area Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to remediate discrepancies.
• Investigate and escalate anomalies or policy violations in partnership with information security, data owners, and governance leads.
• Execute and track program controls, ensuring proper implementation and maintenance of compliance procedures across file share environments.
• Collect, organize, and retain audit-ready evidence of control execution and compliance adherence.
• Participate in the development of governance controls and procedural documentation, including standards, operating procedures, control narratives, and desktop execution guidance.
• Support onboarding and migration activities into file share governance, including validation, cleanup, baseline control implementation, and stakeholder coordination.
• Help establish and improve automation for reporting, compliance tracking, and evidence collection.
• Provide cross-functional governance support across related domains such as asset management and configuration drift management as directed.
• Assist with control testing, readiness reviews, and remediation tracking aligned with internal and regulatory requirements.
• Contribute to program performance reporting, metrics development, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 3 - 5+ years of experience in IT governance, compliance operations, information security, or audit. – 10+ yrs
• Experience working with file share environments (e.g., Windows file shares, SharePoint, OneDrive, NAS, etc.) and associated governance controls.
• Solid understanding of data retention, classification, access management, and information protection policies.
• Demonstrated experience executing governance controls and maintaining supporting evidence.
• Experience writing or contributing to procedural documentation, standards, or governance control frameworks.
• Familiarity with onboarding or migrating environments into controlled governance frameworks.
• Working knowledge of regulatory and industry standards such as FFIEC, SOX, NIST CSF, or HIPAA with an understanding of PII, NPI, PCI, and PHI

Preferred:

• Experience with Varonis, or other governance, reporting, or discovery platforms.
• Strong documentation and procedural writing skills
• Strong communication skills with ability to translate complexity terms into business terms for all levels of management
• Technical awareness of file systems, permissions, access provisioning, or encryption-at-rest/in-transit solutions.