Senior Data Governance Specialist
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JobgetherFinancial Services
Based in United StatesFull-TimeSenior
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Languages
- Advanced English proficiency, both written and verbal.
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- SQLETLJiraServiceNow
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or a related discipline.
- 5+ years of professional experience in Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Management, or a closely related field.
- Proven hands-on experience executing data governance initiatives within regulated environments such as financial services, banking, insurance, or similar industries.
- Demonstrated experience working directly with business stakeholders to understand data requirements, challenges, and priorities.
- Strong understanding of data governance principles, including data ownership, stewardship, metadata, and governance processes.
- Hands-on experience with data catalog and data lineage platforms such as Collibra, Alation, Informatica EDC, Azure Purview, or comparable technologies.
- Solid SQL skills for data investigation, validation, profiling, and quality analysis.
- Familiarity with data quality concepts and experience collaborating with Data Quality and Engineering teams.
- Understanding of ETL/ELT processes and modern data pipelines.
- Experience using Jira, ServiceNow, or similar platforms to manage governance tasks, issues, and workflows.
- Advanced English proficiency, both written and verbal.
- Excellent documentation and attention-to-detail skills.
Responsibilities
- Support the execution and day-to-day delivery of data management and governance initiatives across multiple business functions.
- Partner directly with business stakeholders and data owners to understand current data landscapes, business needs, challenges, and priorities.
- Capture outcomes from stakeholder discussions and translate them into clear action plans, documentation, and governance deliverables.
- Identify and prioritize high-impact, low-complexity opportunities that can demonstrate the immediate business value of effective data governance.
- Enrich and maintain enterprise data catalogs, including business definitions, ownership information, metadata, and related governance artifacts.
- Support the definition, implementation, and monitoring of data quality rules in collaboration with Data Quality and Engineering teams.
- Contribute to data lineage and metadata documentation activities to improve transparency and understanding of critical data assets.
- Coordinate governance activities across data domains and ensure agreed actions, decisions, and deliverables are completed.
- Document governance processes, business definitions, decisions, controls, and supporting artifacts clearly and consistently.
- Facilitate or participate in business-facing working sessions, acting as an effective bridge between business stakeholders and data teams.
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