Data Governance Analyst (CDC Funded)

Role

Data Governance Analyst (CDC Funded)

Location

Richmond, VA (Hybrid)

Duration

12+ Month

Type

Contract

Note

Onsite

Two (2) days per week

Expected Start Date

Two (2) weeks after offer accepted

Parking

Parking is not provided for contractors

Job Descriptions

• 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

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 future state 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.

Facilitation and Enterprise Collaboration

• Lead 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 build consensus around practical solutions.
• Clarify decision rights, responsibilities, dependencies, and required actions.
• Document decisions, communicate outcomes to responsible teams, and coordinate follow-through to implementation.
• Foster collaboration and accountability across business and technical stakeholders

Data Governance and Operational Improvement

• Support data owners and stewards in operationalizing governance policies, standards, and responsibilities.
• Establish meaningful measures of governance effectiveness, stakeholder engagement, compliance, and data quality.
• Facilitate data quality issue identification, root cause analysis, remediation, and continuous improvement.
• Support access governance and data sharing processes by ensuring authorized decisions, requirements, and conditions are clearly documented, communicated to execution teams, and tracked through implementation.
• Collaborate with enterprise partners to embed governance requirements into data acquisition, integration, management, and consumption.
• Facilitate business and analytical requirements to ensure 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,
• 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, and data quality, compliance, and lifecycle management.
• Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively.

Preferred Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in business analysis, process improvement, data governance, or enterprise data management.
• Experience in government, healthcare, or another regulated environment.
• Familiarity with enterprise data integration, interoperability, master and reference data management, and data products.
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks (DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM) and process improvement methodologies (BPMN, Lean, Six Sigma).
• Familiarity with AWS, Snowflake, Commonwealth of Virginia/VITA 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.

Required 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)