Data Governance Analyst

QAT Global is a US-based IT consulting firm seeking a Junior Data Governance Analyst to support a Public Health customer. The role assists with metadata management, data catalog maintenance, data lineage documentation, governance meeting coordination, stakeholder communication, and governance procedure updates.

Responsibilities:

• Help gather, document, and organize business and technical metadata alongside senior analysts and Data Stewards
• Assist in maintaining data catalog entries, glossary terms, and ownership information
• Support documentation of data lineage across systems, reports, and dashboards
• Take notes and track action items during governance meetings
• Help facilitate conversations between business and technical stakeholders
• Assist with updating governance procedures and SOPs, and building simple progress trackers

Requirements:

• • Bachelor's degree in IT, Data Management, Business, Analytics, or related field — or equivalent coursework/project experience
• • No prior professional experience required; interest in data governance or data quality is what matters most
• • Comfortable learning new tools; prior exposure to Collibra is a bonus, not required
• • Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and good communication
• • Basic familiarity with Excel is helpful
• • Exposure to Power BI, SQL basics, Databricks, Snowflake, or ArcGIS
• • Interest in healthcare, public health, or government data