Data Governance Analyst

Title

Data Governance Analyst

Location

Richmond, VA

Duration

12+ months

Interview Type

Both Webcam & In person (IN PERSON interview after initial virtual IV)

Local candidates must

Note

Parking

Parking is not provided for contractors

Position Summary

Client is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to advance enterprise data governance through the effective integration of people, processes, and technology.

The position will collaborate with data owners, data stewards, and enterprise partners to establish repeatable, sustainable, and measurable processes that embed governance principles into business operations and technology delivery. The ideal candidate is a skilled business analyst and facilitator who can analyze complex problems, interpret policies, elicit requirements, bring stakeholders together, and translate business needs into practical solutions. The role emphasizes governance by design, cross-functional collaboration, process improvement, and organizational adoption rather than hands-on technical development.

Key Responsibilities

Data Governance Business Analysis and Process Improvement

• Analyze business and data management processes to identify gaps, risks, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Facilitate requirements gathering, root cause analysis, and current-state and futurestate process design.
• Translate governance policies and business requirements into actionable workflows, procedures, decision frameworks, and operational controls.
• Develop process maps, business requirements, SOPs, RACI matrices, and performance measures.
• Support the implementation, automation, adoption, and continuous improvement of sustainable processes.

Governance Facilitation and Enterprise Collaboration

• Facilitate cross-functional working sessions involving data owners, stewards, business units, enterprise architecture, engineering, security, analytics, and external partners.
• Facilitate complex discussions, reconcile competing priorities, evaluate alternatives, and support informed governance decisions by authorized stakeholders.
• Clarify governance decision rights, responsibilities, dependencies, and required actions for implementation.
• Document governance decisions, communicate requirements and outcomes to responsible teams, and coordinate follow-through to implementation.
• Foster collaboration and accountability for consistent application of governance practices across business and technical stakeholders.

Data Governance Operations and Continuous Improvement

• Support data owners and stewards in implementing governance policies, standards, roles, and responsibilities within operational processes.
• Collaborate with data owners, stewards, and enterprise partners to define, document, and monitor meaningful measures of governance effectiveness, stakeholder engagement, compliance, and data quality.
• Facilitate data quality issue identification, root cause analysis, remediation planning, and continuous improvement.
• Support data access governance and data sharing processes by ensuring authorized decisions, requirements, and conditions are clearly documented, communicated to execution teams and tracked through implementation communicated to execution teams, and tracked through implementation.
• Collaborate with enterprise partners to embed governance requirements into data onboarding, integration, management, and consumption.
• Elicit and document business and analytical requirements to help ensure governed enterprise data products meet consumer needs.

Areas of Contribution

• The analyst may lead or support prioritized initiatives involving governance decision processes (ARID), access governance, data sharing, automated data onboarding, EMPI and reference data management, data quality improvement, compliance reviews, and data product requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in senior-level business analysis, requirements elicitation, process improvement, and complex problem-solving.
• Advanced facilitation skills, including leading cross-functional working sessions, navigating competing priorities, building consensus, and driving decisions to resolution.
• Proven ability to analyze, design, document, and implement sustainable business processes.
• Ability to interpret policies, standards, and business requirements and translate them into practical operational processes and controls.
• Working knowledge of enterprise data governance, including data ownership, stewardship, access governance, data quality, compliance, and lifecycle management.
• Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting enterprise data governance initiatives, including governance process implementation, data stewardship, data quality, metadata, or access governance.
• Experience in government, healthcare, or another regulated environment.
• Familiarity with enterprise data integration, interoperability, master and reference data management, and governed data products.
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks (e.g. DAMA-DMBOK, DMMI) and process improvement methodologies (BPMN, Lean, Six Sigma).
• Familiarity with AWS, Snowflake, Client standards, or relevant professional certifications such as CDMP.

Education

• A bachelor's degree in information systems, business administration, information management, or a related field is preferred. Equivalent professional experience and relevant certifications may be considered.

Skills

• Data Analysis
• Experience with Data Lineage / Cataloging
• Data Policy /Procedure creation
• Proficiency with SQL
• Datawarehouse Experience
• Requirements Elicitation
• Experience with Databases(Relational databases, SQL Server, Oracle , Snowflake etc)