Data Governance Analyst

Job Description

Required Skills &

Competencies:

• Working knowledge of core data governance concepts, including ownership, stewardship, data definitions, metadata, standards, and data quality
• Practical familiarity with data catalog, business glossary, metadata repository, or data dictionary concepts
• Hands‑on experience maintaining structured documentation, registers, trackers, and governance artifacts
• Ability to capture and organize business terms, data definitions, data owners, data stewards, data domains, and related governance attributes
• Working knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, Confluence, Jira, or similar collaboration and documentation tools
• Basic working knowledge of data quality, data lineage, data classification, and data lifecycle concepts
• Ability to support workshops, interviews, and validation sessions with business and technical stakeholders
• Strong written communication skills for meeting notes, governance summaries, issue logs, and structured documentation
• Ability to follow defined governance methods, templates, naming standards, and documentation rules
• Good stakeholder coordination and follow‑up skills
• Ability to identify missing, inconsistent, unclear, or conflicting governance information
• Basic analytical thinking and ability to connect business language with data concepts

• Support the implementation and maintenance of data governance practices
• Maintain data ownership, stewardship, data domain, and business glossary documentation
• Capture and organize metadata, business definitions, data rules, and governance attributes
• Support the development and maintenance of data governance policies, standards, procedures, and guidance documents
• Maintain governance trackers, issue logs, decision logs, action logs, and stakeholder follow‑up records
• Support interviews, workshops, working groups, and governance discussions
• Document meeting outcomes, decisions, risks, actions, and unresolved questions
• Support data governance reporting, status packs, dashboards, and presentation materials
• Assist in identifying gaps in ownership, definitions, metadata, standards, and governance adoption
• Coordinate with business users and technical teams to validate data definitions, ownership, and governance information
• Support adoption of data catalog, metadata, glossary, or governance tools
• Support data quality, privacy, compliance, and analytics teams with governance‑related documentation
• Prepare clean, structured, and reusable governance materials for handover and ongoing use
• Escalate unclear ownership, conflicting definitions, missing information, or unresolved actions to the Data Governance Specialist

The Data Governance Analyst is a practical execution role. The role is not expected to design the full governance strategy independently, but it is essential for making governance information accurate, organized, maintained, and usable.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, Management Information Systems, Information Management, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Engineering, or a related discipline
• Arabic and English are mandatory
• 2–4+ years of experience in data governance, business analysis, data analysis, metadata management, reporting, data quality, compliance support, documentation, or transformation initiatives
• Experience supporting workshops, maintaining structured documentation, managing trackers, and coordinating with business and technical stakeholders is preferred

• DAMA CDMP Associate
• DAMA Data Management Fundamentals training
• Collibra, Informatica, Alation, Microsoft Purview, or equivalent data catalog / governance platform certification
• ECBA, CCBA, or equivalent business analysis certification where relevant
• Foundation-level privacy, data protection, or compliance certification where relevant