Data Governance Analyst

U.S. Financial Technology operates a cloud-based mortgage securitization platform supporting issuance, bond administration, disclosure, and tax services. The Data Governance Analyst supports daily data governance operations, including cataloging, lineage, classification, stewardship, and governance platform adoption. The role also develops governance documentation and training, supports audit and compliance activities, and helps improve and automate governance workflows.

Responsibilities:

• 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. (E.g., design automated governance oversight, metamodels that reduces redundancy, indexing and archiving strategies to enable faster searches, automate onboarding of new domains/stewards, semantic layer creation etc.)
• Partner with team to evaluate and pilot AI driven governance solutions, such as, automate lineage discovery, automate data sensitivity /privacy discovery, automate business glossary generation, make metadata intelligence accessible, to strengthen governance controls as well as enhance productivity and accuracy
• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Experience building reports or dashboards for governance and KPI monitoring – preferred
• 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