Data Governance Analyst - Data Standards, Metadata & Governance

Job Description

**FULLY REMOTE**

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ScolerTec is seeking multiple Data Governance Analysts to support a large-scale cloud data modernization and governance program.

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This role will establish, implement, and maintain enterprise data governance frameworks and serve as a Data Standards Architect, defining data standards, definitions, structures, ownership models, and governance requirements across enterprise systems. The role will work closely with business, security, privacy, legal, records-management, governance, and engineering teams.

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Key Responsibilities

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• Develop and maintain enterprise data governance frameworks, policies, standards, procedures, and operating models.

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• Serve as a Data Standards Architect, defining naming conventions, data definitions, data structures, reference data, and governance requirements.

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• Establish data ownership, stewardship, accountability, and decision-rights models.

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• Develop standards aligned with enterprise architecture, security, privacy, records management, and regulatory requirements.

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• Establish appropriate data classification based on sensitivity, criticality, and business value.

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• Translate policies and regulatory requirements into practical governance controls and procedures.

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• Support data access, sharing, usage, retention, classification, and lifecycle governance.

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• Identify governance gaps, compliance risks, and remediation requirements.

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• Support governance councils, working groups, and data-domain forums.

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• Maintain governance documentation, decision logs, procedures, standards, and supporting artifacts.

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• Define Data Owner/Data Steward responsibilities and RACI models.

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• Support governance maturity assessments and continuous-improvement initiatives.

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• Develop governance training and awareness materials.

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• Track governance adoption, compliance, maturity, and program metrics.

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Qualifications

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• Advanced degree and significant enterprise information-systems/data-management experience consistent with the role requirements.

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• Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise data governance programs.

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• Experience translating governance policy into operational processes.

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• Strong knowledge of data quality, metadata management, and stewardship models.

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• Experience defining and governing enterprise data standards.

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• Strong understanding of data modeling, integration patterns, and change data capture.

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• Experience with metadata/catalog platforms such as Collibra, Alation, Qlik, or similar tools.

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• Practical experience implementing business glossary and data lineage capabilities.

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• Ability to translate technical metadata into business-friendly definitions and documentation.

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• Experience implementing data privacy, access-management, and data-classification controls.

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• Experience governing regulated or high-sensitivity data.

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• Experience partnering across security, engineering, governance, legal/compliance, and business organizations.

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Preferred Qualifications

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• Federal Government or regulated-environment experience.

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• Enterprise data governance frameworks and operating models.

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• Data management certification.

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