Data Governance Specialist

Position: Data Governance Specialist I
Summary of

Job Responsibilities The Data Governance Specialist at Colorado PERA supports the development, implementation, and ongoing operation of PERA’s enterprise data governance program. Working in partnership with the Data Governance Program Manager, this role helps ensure that data is trusted, secure, well-documented, and effectively used to support reporting, analytics, operational decision-making, and modernization efforts.

The Data Governance Specialist assists with data stewardship activities, business glossary and metadata documentation, data quality processes, governance standards, and stakeholder engagement across business and technology teams. This position plays an important role in helping PERA build consistent, practical, and sustainable data governance practices that support responsible data use and improve confidence in enterprise data.

Ideal Candidate Statement Our ideal candidate is a collaborative, detail-oriented, and analytically-minded professional who is interested in helping an organization strengthen how it manages and uses data. They bring a solid understanding of data governance, data quality, metadata, reporting, and business process documentation, along with the ability to work effectively with both technical teams and business stakeholders. This individual is comfortable supporting structured enterprise initiatives, documenting data definitions and business rules, assisting with data quality analysis, and helping translate governance concepts into practical day-to-day practices.

They are organized, curious, service-oriented, and able to support multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy, consistency, and attention to detail.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Individuals must be able to perform these duties with or without reasonable accommodations.

Data Governance & Stewardship Support Support the Data Governance Program Manager in implementing and maintaining PERA’s enterprise data governance framework, including policies, standards, procedures, and supporting documentation.

Assist with documenting data ownership, stewardship roles, decision rights, and accountability structures across business units.

Support the coordination and administration of data governance forums, working groups, and stewardship meetings, including agenda preparation, meeting notes, action item tracking, and follow-up.

Help build and maintain a data stewardship community by providing documentation, coordination, training materials, and ongoing support to data owners and data stewards.

Assist business teams in documenting data definitions, business rules, data quality expectations, and governance-related decisions.

Metadata, Business Glossary, & Data Documentation Support the development and ongoing maintenance of business glossaries, data dictionaries, metadata repositories, and related governance artifacts.

Work with business subject matter experts and technical teams to document key data elements, definitions, data sources, system relationships, and usage context.

Assist with documenting data lineage, source-to-target mappings, and data lifecycle information where needed.

Help ensure that data definitions, metrics, and reporting terminology are consistent across business areas and analytics products.

Maintain organized, accessible, and version-controlled governance documentation that supports transparency and reuse.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagemento Serve as a supporting liaison between business stakeholders, data owners, data stewards, technology teams, the Data & Analytics Team, and other stakeholders.o Help translate business questions and data concerns into documented governance needs, data quality requirements,…