Data Governance Analyst (Data Specialist)

Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation

Bengaluru

On-site

INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

5-day in-office work schedule

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a skilled Data Governance Analyst (Data Specialist) to join the GFS Strategy - Global Finance Services Division in Bengaluru.

The role focuses on supporting the enterprise data governance framework, defining data policy, and improving data trust across priority assets with cross-functional collaboration. The candidate will manage metadata, glossaries, data catalogs, and data lineage while ensuring adherence to governance standards.

Qualifications

Experience in enterprise data governance and data quality
Knowledge of data lineage, business glossaries, and data catalogs
Ability to document requirements and support governance initiatives
Familiarity with cloud data platforms and analytics ecosystems
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

Execute enterprise data governance programs across data domains
Maintain metadata, glossaries, catalogs, classifications, and data lineage
Define and monitor data quality rules, KPIs, and remediation activities
Collaborate with business, data, technology, and compliance teams
Support governance of cloud data platforms and analytics environments
Maintain governance documentation and audit artifacts
Lead governance forums and stakeholder workshops
Develop governance playbooks and user guides
Monitor governance metrics and data quality trends
Partner with risk, privacy and security teams to support governance initiatives

Skills

Data governance

Data management

Data quality

Metadata management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in information systems or related field

Tools

Collibra

Alation

Informatica

Microsoft Purview

Job description

Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Your Impact Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled Data Governance Analyst (Data Specialist) to join our GFS Strategy -Global Finance Services Division.

The Data Governance Analyst supports enterprise data governance framework and governance model. Also helps in defining and executing data policy, standards, and procedures, along with maintaining finance glossary and data catalog. The role partners with business, data, technology, risk, compliance, and analytics teams to improve data trust, discoverability, quality, ownership, lineage, and controlled use across priority data assets.

The preference for this role is to be based out of Bangalore-Shared Services, Whitefield -KA

What you will do

Execute enterprise data governance programs, including data ownership, stewardship, issue management, controls, and policy adoption across critical data domains.
Manage and maintain metadata, business glossaries, data catalogs, classifications, and data lineage to improve data discoverability and trust.
Define, monitor, and support data quality rules, KPIs, and remediation activities to ensure accurate and reliable business data.
Partner with business stakeholders, data stewards, and technology teams to document requirements, validate data definitions, and support governance initiatives.
Support governance of cloud data platforms, data products, reporting assets, and analytics environments by ensuring compliance with governance standards.
Maintain governance documentation, control evidence, audit artifacts, and compliance records related to data management and regulatory requirements.
Facilitate governance forums, working sessions, and stakeholder workshops to drive issue resolution, accountability, and adoption of governance practices.
Develop governance playbooks, training materials, user guides, and process documentation to support organizational adoption.
Monitor governance metrics, metadata completeness, data quality trends, and stewardship activities, providing insights and recommendations for continuous improvement.
Collaborate with risk, compliance, privacy, security, and audit teams to support data governance, data privacy, and responsible AI initiatives.

What you will have

5+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, Data Quality, Metadata Management, or related disciplines.
Strong understanding of data governance frameworks, data lineage, business glossaries, and data quality principles.
Experience with data governance and catalog tools such as Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, or similar platforms.
Familiarity with cloud data platforms, data warehouses, BI/reporting solutions, and analytics ecosystems.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
Bachelor's degree in information systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Business, or a related field.
Additional Information: This position requires candidate to work a 5-day -a -week schedule in the office

Preferred Qualifications

DAMA CDMP or equivalent certification
Alation data cataloger certification

Skills desired:

Value Realization

Knowledge of value realization methods; ability to plan, execute, monitor and manage business activities and resources to determine and achieve the actual value from a business initiative as estimated in an associated business case.

Level Basic Understanding

Describes the importance of Value Realization milestones for long-term projects.
Assists in measuring and attaining post-project implementation value.
Identifies process changes or business value integration in change initiative plans and activities.
Contributes to project team communication regarding the linkage of a change initiative to its associated business goals and case.

Communicating Complex Concepts

Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding; ability to use summarization and simplification techniques to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience.

Level Working Knowledge

Uses comparisons to familiar ideas when introducing a technical or novel feature.
Separates fundamental concepts from supporting details in explaining a product or service.
Explains products and services with little or no use of technical jargon or advanced vocabulary.
Emphasises the most important facts or features of a product or service.
Perceives lack of audience comprehension; further simplifies explanation when needed.

Agile Development

Knowledge of agile methodologies and the agile development lifecycle; ability to utilize formal agile methodologies, disciplines, practices and techniques for the delivery of new and enhanced applications.

Level Working Knowledge