Data Governance Analyst

Description

Thread Bank is a digital-first financial technology community bank that aims to enhance customer engagement through innovative solutions. Thread Bank offers a modern website, a CRM system, and a mobile app to simplify banking for businesses and individuals. Our embedded banking solution helps business technology platforms provide secure banking experiences. We also partner with other banks, credit unions, and Fin Techs to integrate compliant financial solutions.

Thread Bank values innovation, collaboration, and flexibility, offering excellent benefits and a family-friendly culture.

The Data Governance Analyst executes the day to day work of Thread Bank’s data governance program. This role keeps the Bank’s data catalog accurate and current, produces the data quality reporting the Enterprise Data Governance Council relies on, and maintains the classification, ownership, and retention documentation that supports GLBA and other regulatory obligations. The Analyst serves as the program’s working steward of the catalog and as the primary support to the Enterprise Data Governance Council.

The ideal candidate is detail oriented, curious about how data moves through a bank, exercises sound judgment, and handles sensitive and confidential information with the utmost discretion.

• Maintain the Bank’s key data element register and business glossary in the enterprise data catalog, including definitions, classifications, and regulatory tags.
• Keep data owner, data steward, and technical owner assignments current in the catalog as the organization changes, and onboard new owners and stewards to their responsibilities.
• Maintain data classification documentation and data inventories across the Bank’s systems of record and reconcile them to the catalog.
• Review data lineage and metadata propagation for completeness and accuracy, log defects, and work with Data Engineering to resolve them.

• Produce the monthly data quality dashboard and the quarterly Enterprise Data Governance Council metrics pack.
• Monitor data quality checks, triage failures, route them to the responsible steward, and track resolution against agreed severity service levels.
• Maintain the data governance issue log, record defects found during review and follow remediation through to closure.

• Support the Enterprise Data Governance Council by building the materials pack, drafting decision memos, recording decisions and actions, and maintaining the decision register, including the ratification status of pending items.
• Support implementation of the Bank’s data classification, retention, and information protection controls in Microsoft 365, then monitor adherence once those controls are live and elevate exceptions for resolution.
• Conduct and document periodic data governance assessments of bank systems, reviewing classification accuracy, retention compliance, and data handling practices against policy.
• Coordinate periodic access reviews of bank data systems with system owners, consolidate review outcomes, and track remediation of inappropriate access to closure.
• Collect and organize evidence for internal audits, external audits, and regulatory examinations, maintain control documentation, and track remediation of findings.
• Maintain clear documentation and runbooks for recurring tasks.
• Coordinate day to day with Data Engineering, IT Operations, Information Security, and Compliance.
• Perform additional responsibilities as assigned by management or business needs.

• 2 or more years of experience in data governance, data management, IT audit, governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), or a related role.
• Working knowledge of data governance concepts, including data classification, data ownership, retention, and access controls.
• Hands on experience with a data catalog, metadata management, or data governance platform, or a demonstrated ability to become the Bank’s power user of one within the first 90 days.
• Ability to read a database schema and write basic SQL queries.
• General awareness of U.S. banking and financial…