Data Governance Analyst

La Fosse; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 88,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

La Fosse is seeking a hands-on Data Governance Analyst to help build the governance foundations. You’ll identify CDEs, map data from source to domain, build the glossary and dictionary, and draft data quality rules under the governance lead.

On-site for workshops, with remote work the rest of the time in a hybrid London role. You’ll work with Purview, perform source-to-target mappings, and ensure governance artefacts are accurate and ready for sign-off.

Qualifications

• Hands-on data governance experience: CDEs, glossary, dictionary, metadata and lineage.
• Experience with Microsoft Purview and data governance tooling.
• Source-to-target mapping and data quality considerations.

Responsibilities

• Identify critical data elements (CDEs) with owners and stewards and capture definitions.
• Map CDEs to data domains, products and business terms.
• Draft data quality rules and thresholds for CDEs across dimensions.
• Maintain business glossary, data dictionary and data product catalog entries.
• Prepare workshop packs and record decisions with sign-off evidence.

Skills

CDE governance

Data mapping

Data quality rules

Excel

Documentation

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Job description

Data Governance Analyst (Contract) London (hybrid) / £550 per day, outside IR35

The role

A large UK enterprise is building its data governance foundations and needs a hands-on Data Governance Analyst. You’ll work closely with the Data Governance Lead. You’ll identify the critical data elements and the systems that hold them, map data from source to domain, build the glossary and dictionary and draft the data quality rules. The core of the job is turning workshop decisions into accurate, usable governance artefacts.

You’ll be on site for workshops with the Governance Lead and work remotely the rest of the time.

What you’ll do

Critical data and systems

• Identify critical data elements (CDEs) with data owners and stewards, and capture their definitions and metadata
• Identify the source systems and build the source system to domain matrix
• Map CDEs to data domains, data products and business terms
• Map business departments and functions to data domains
• Support data profiling with the engineers to understand quality and find gaps

Glossary, dictionary and catalogue

• Build and maintain the business glossary and data dictionary
• Maintain data product catalogue entries: definitions, owners and consumers
• Support loading of glossary, ownership and CDE metadata into Microsoft Purview
• Capture business lineage: which systems feed which domains, data products and reports
• Draft data quality rules and thresholds for CDEs across the quality dimensions
• Track data quality issues and their remediation

Governance support

• Draft RACI, workflows and policy content with the Governance Lead
• Prepare workshop packs, record decisions and collect sign-off evidence
• Keep the governance tracker up to date
• Draft training and adoption material for data owners and stewards

What you’ll bring

• Hands-on data governance experience: CDEs, glossary, dictionary, metadata and lineage
• Experience with Microsoft Purview
• Source-to-target, system and CDE mapping
• Data quality rules and dimensions, and basic data profiling
• Working knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK
• Strong Excel and documentation skills
• Organised and precise, and comfortable working from workshop outputs with light direction

Nice to have

• Collibra, Alation or Informatica
• SQL, data quality tools or profiling in Python
• Experience writing training and adoption material
• CDMP Associate or a similar certification

What success looks like

• CDEs, mappings and glossary entries are accurate and agreed
• Workshop packs are ready on time and decisions are recorded the same day
• Sign-off evidence is complete for every governance deliverable