Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Data Ideology provides data and analytics advisory services to help clients address business problems and achieve measurable outcomes. The Data Governance Analyst works with business and technology stakeholders to document and improve data governance, investigate data quality issues, and turn governance objectives into practical, repeatable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business, data, technology, and governance stakeholders to identify and address data governance needs
• Facilitate conversations with data owners and subject-matter experts to establish definitions, ownership, standards, and appropriate usage of data
• Support development and maintenance of business glossaries, data dictionaries, metadata, data standards, and governance documentation
• Assist with data quality initiatives by identifying, analyzing, documenting, and helping remediate data issues
• Perform hands-on data analysis using SQL or similar tools to investigate governance and data-quality questions
• Analyze datasets to validate business rules, definitions, completeness, consistency, and accuracy
• Help translate business requirements into measurable data rules and governance requirements
• Support data access, sharing, and usage-governance processes
• Build or maintain reporting, dashboards, or metrics that provide visibility into data quality and governance activities
• Work across teams to improve governance workflows and reduce manual or inefficient processes
• Communicate findings clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
• Help move governance initiatives from discussion and documentation into repeatable operational processes

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field required
• Approximately 2–5 years of experience in data governance, data analytics, business/data analysis, or a related discipline
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders, data owners, technical teams, or senior leadership
• Working knowledge of: + Data governance + Data quality + Metadata and data definitions + Data ownership/stewardship + Data access and usage
• Hands-on SQL experience and the ability to investigate and analyze data independently
• Experience with reporting or visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or similar platforms
• Ability to translate between business requirements and technical/data concepts
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Organized, curious, analytical, and comfortable in environments where not every requirement is initially defined
• Advanced degree preferred
• Experience in banking, financial services, or another regulated industry
• Experience with enterprise data governance or data-quality platforms
• Familiarity with Informatica or comparable governance/data-quality tooling
• Experience with cloud data platforms or modern data environments
• Experience automating data, reporting, or governance workflows
• Exposure to master data management, customer data, hierarchy management, or enterprise metadata

Benefits

• Remote work from home.

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