Data Governance Analyst

Role Overview
The client is seeking an experienced Data Governance Analyst to support the implementation of an Enterprise Data Governance Program and establish trusted, governed enterprise data for operational and analytical use cases. The role focuses on AWS, Snowflake, metadata management, data quality, data lineage, business rules, and data stewardship. Experience: 13+ years.

Key Responsibilities
• Support implementation of enterprise data governance programs
• Facilitate governance workshops with business and technical stakeholders
• Partner with Data Owners and Data Stewards to govern enterprise datasets
• Develop and maintain governance policies, standards, procedures, and documentation
• Capture business and technical metadata, data dictionaries, and business glossaries
• Define Critical Data Elements (CDEs) and business data quality rules
• Perform data profiling, reconciliation, validation, and quality monitoring
• Document data lineage, end-to-end data flows, and impact analysis
• Support governance across Bronze, Silver, Gold, ODS, and ADS data layers
• Collaborate with Data Engineers supporting Python-based AWS pipelines
• Support governance of enterprise datasets published to Snowflake
• Support data classification, retention, ILM, and internal data sharing
• Develop governance dashboards, metrics, executive presentations, and reports

Required Skills
• Data Governance and Data Management
• Data Analysis and Data Quality
• Data Lineage and Cataloging
• Data Policy and Procedure Creation
• Metadata Management and Business Glossaries
• Critical Data Elements (CDEs)
• SQL and Data Validation
• Data Warehousing
• Requirements Elicitation
• Relational Databases, SQL Server, Oracle, and Snowflake
• Enterprise Data Governance Program Implementation

Preferred Skills
• AWS, S3, Glue, Glue Data Catalog, Lake Formation
• Snowflake
• Python
• Power BI
• SharePoint
• Data Stewardship and Master Data Management
• Data Classification and Information Lifecycle Management
• Operational Data Stores and Data Warehousing
• AI-ready Data Governance
• Healthcare, Behavioral Health, Medicaid, or State Government experience