Data Governance Analyst

End Client: Commonwealth of Virginia – Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS)

Job Title: Data Governance Analyst

Duration: 9–12 Months with Possible Extension

Position Type: Contract

Interview Type: Virtual Interview;
Manager may require a follow-up In-Person Interview

Ceipal : _RP

Job Summary:

The Office of Data Governance is seeking an experienced Data Governance Analyst to support implementation of the agency's Enterprise Data Governance Program
.

The Data Governance Analyst will work closely with Data Owners, Data Stewards, Business Owners, Enterprise Architecture, Data Engineers, Project Teams, and Information Security to establish trusted and governed enterprise data supporting both operational and analytical use cases.

The role will focus on governance activities supporting enterprise data ingested into the AWS Data Platform and consumed through Snowflake
. The selected candidate will help establish governance processes, metadata, business rules, data quality standards, and stewardship practices while supporting the agency's growing enterprise data platform.

Responsibilities:

Data Governance:

• Support implementation of the DBHDS Enterprise Data Governance Program.
• Facilitate governance workshops with business stakeholders.
• Support onboarding of new applications into the Enterprise Data Governance Program.
• Partner with Data Owners and Data Stewards to establish governance for new enterprise datasets.
• Develop and maintain governance policies, standards, procedures, and supporting documentation.

Metadata Management:

• Capture and maintain business metadata, technical metadata, and data dictionaries.
• Develop and maintain the Enterprise Business Glossary.
• Define and document Critical Data Elements (CDEs).
• Map business metadata to technical metadata.
• Support metadata ingestion into the enterprise metadata repository.

Data Quality:

• Define business data quality rules.
• Support data profiling and business validation activities.
• Monitor data quality metrics and trends.
• Assist Data Stewards with remediation planning.
• Perform reconciliation and validation across enterprise data sources.
• Document business and technical data lineage.
• Document end-to-end data flows.
• Assist with impact analysis for new data sources.
• Support governance activities across Bronze, Silver, Gold, Operational Data Store (ODS), and Analytical Data Store (ADS) layers.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers supporting Python-based AWS data pipelines.
• Support governance of enterprise datasets published to Snowflake
  .
• Assist with proof-of-concept initiatives to consolidate data from multiple source systems into governed enterprise data assets.
• Support Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), data classification, retention, and internal data sharing processes.

Reporting & Communication:

• Produce governance dashboards and metrics.
• Prepare executive presentations and governance reports.
• Present recommendations to governance committees and project teams.
• Communicate governance requirements to both business and technical audiences.

Required Skills:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, Data Quality, Business Analysis, Metadata Management, or related disciplines
  .
• Minimum 10 years of Data Analysis experience.
• Minimum 10 years of experience with Data Lineage / Cataloging.
• Minimum 10 years of experience creating Data Policies and Procedures.
• Minimum 10 years of SQL experience.
• Minimum 10 years of Data Warehouse experience.
• Minimum 10 years of Requirements Elicitation experience.
• Minimum 7 years of experience working with databases, including relational databases, SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake, or similar technologies.
• Experience implementing enterprise Data Governance programs.
• Experience facilitating governance workshops with business…