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Job Details:
Title: Senior Data Governance Analyst
Location: Richmond, VA
Compensation: $50.00 – $55.00 /
Work Type: Contract
Work Location: Hybrid
Job Description:
Senior Data Governance Analyst
Contract: 1 Year
Hybrid: 2 days onsite:
Local Candidates Only
Richmond, VA
We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Governance Analyst for our client to support the implementation and continuous improvement of enterprise data governance through the effective integration of people, processes, and technology. The position will collaborate with data owners, data stewards, and enterprise partners to translate governance policies, standards, and decisions into repeatable, sustainable, and measurable business processes that embed data governance into operations and technology delivery. The ideal candidate is a skilled business analyst and facilitator with a strong understanding of data governance principles who can analyze complex business and data management challenges, interpret policies, elicit requirements, facilitate cross-functional decisions, and translate governance needs into practical solutions. The role emphasizes governance by design, business process improvement, stakeholder collaboration, operational accountability, and organizational adoption rather than hands-on technical development.
Responsibilities
Data Governance Business Analysis and Process Improvement
Analyze business processes and data management practices to identify governance gaps, risks, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
Facilitate requirements elicitation, root cause analysis, and current-state and future-state process design for governance-related initiatives.
Translate governance policies, standards, business needs, and decisions into actionable business requirements, workflows, procedures, and operational controls.
Develop process maps, business requirements, SOPs, RACI matrices, and performance measures to support governance implementation and accountability.
Support process implementation, automation, adoption, and continuous improvement to establish sustainable governance practices.
Governance Facilitation and Enterprise Collaboration
Facilitate cross-functional working sessions involving data owners, stewards, business units, enterprise architecture, engineering, security, analytics, and external partners.
Facilitate complex discussions, reconcile competing priorities, evaluate alternatives, and support informed governance decisions by authorized stakeholders.
Clarify governance decision rights, responsibilities, dependencies, and required actions for implementation.
Document governance decisions, communicate requirements and outcomes to responsible teams, and coordinate follow-through to implementation.
Foster collaboration and accountability for consistent application of governance practices across business and technical stakeholders.
Data Governance Operations and Continuous Improvement
Support data owners and stewards in implementing governance policies, standards, roles, and responsibilities within operational processes.
Collaborate with data owners, stewards, and enterprise partners to define, document, and monitor meaningful measures of governance effectiveness, stakeholder engagement, compliance, and data quality.
Facilitate data quality issue identification, root cause analysis, remediation planning, and continuous improvement.
Support data access governance and data sharing processes by ensuring authorized decisions, requirements, and conditions are clearly documented,…