[Hiring] Data Governance Analyst @U.S. Financial Technology

Role Description

The data governance analyst supports daily governance operations across catalog, lineage, and data classification/tagging processes. This role partners with data governance program lead and solution architects to drive consistent process adoption across domains. This role supports data stewards’ successful adoption of tool-based governance processes and monitors execution. The analyst operationalizes governance standards and control-based processes, generates risk and audit evidence of governance workflows execution. The analyst develops process related SOPs, user guides and trainings.

• Collaborate and contribute to the creation and execution of a strategic data governance roadmap that defines target state capabilities to support business objectives of securitization operations, adhering to data management policies and procedure.
• Manage timely execution of data cataloging, lineage and sensitivity tagging processes in Collibra, MS Purview and other governance platforms.
• Define and assist with the technical design, configuration, and deployment of governance platforms (Collibra, MS Purview, other tools) to support enterprise data governance objectives.
• Develop and maintain SOPs, user guides, and user training.
• Onboard and support data stewards, ensuring compliance with governance workflows.
• Collaborate with compliance, risk, and audit teams to validate control effectiveness and prepare required evidence.
• Monitor, measure, and maintain health of data catalog, lineage products/assets, process workflows, and marketplace content for usability.
• Explore and identify opportunities to collaborate with governance team members to improve/automate governance workflows and improve user experience through new capabilities.
• Collaborate closely with the team to enhance system components for scalability, performance, and self-service enablement.
• Partner with team to evaluate and pilot AI driven governance solutions.
• Embrace agile work practices for iterative backlog/sprint planning, prioritization, sprint delivery reviews, and retrospectives to deliver governance capabilities efficiently and transparently.
• Foster a collaborative and growth-oriented team culture and demonstrate organization’s values, ethics, and compliance standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information management, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years experience in data governance, metadata management and platform DevOps administration.
• Hands-on experience with governance workflow execution within Collibra DIP or other equivalent platform/applications.
• Experience building reports or dashboards for governance and KPI monitoring – preferred.
• Working knowledge of governance frameworks (DCAM, DAMA-DMBOK, NIST) and data quality principles.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to partner across business, risk and technology teams.
• Strong analytical, planning and communication skills, with ability to partner effectively with internal and external business and IT teams.
• Continuous learning and innovative mindset, especially towards AI-enabled data management and governance solutions.
• Ability and willingness to learn modern technologies.
• Risk Management, Information Security, Privacy and Compliance related experience is a plus.
• Direct experience with industry frameworks, including DMBOK, EDM DCAM or EDM CDMC is preferred.
• Direct experience with data analytics and BI tools.
• Knowledge of Cloud data technologies in AWS, Snowflake.
• Possession of excellent communication, analytics and problem-solving skills.

Requirements

• Pay Range: $94,250 to $107,500.
• U.S. FinTech's pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary.
• Additional factors considered in extending an offer include a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
• U.S. FinTech offers a competitive total compensation package, which includes a performance bonus, 401k match, healthcare coverage, PTO, and a broad range of other benefits.

Employment

• As a condition of employment with U.S. Financial Technology, any successful job applicant will be required to successfully complete a background investigation, which may also include a credit check for positions in some areas of our business.
• U.S. Financial Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer.