Analyst, Data Governance

Advance Local; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits including medical,

Dental and vision plans

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Parental and caregiver leave

Mental health support

Flexible spending accounts

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Advance Local is seeking a Data Governance Analyst to strengthen our GRC program in a hybrid Jersey City office. You’ll lead data governance, risk controls, and compliance efforts to safeguard information and improve data quality.

You will partner with engineering and business teams, develop classification standards, and drive privacy compliance including CCPA, while delivering dashboards and metrics to leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in GRC, data governance, data management, or a related role.
• Experience leading cross-discipline project teams.
• Excellent oral and written communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with data analysis and reporting tools.
• Understanding of online privacy issues is a plus.
• Knowledge of media industry and digital audience analytics is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define, document, and maintain data governance and quality procedures.
• Drive data classification, dictionaries, metadata, and lineage documentation.
• Define and enforce standards for PII handling and data retention.
• Provide training to business stakeholders, data owners, and data stewards.
• Generate reports and dashboards to track governance performance and risk indicators.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, data engineering, and enterprise services on access and data flows.
• Support data quality initiatives including profiling, monitoring, and remediation.
• Analyze data assets to identify integrity issues and drive remediation.
• Act as policy-layer owner for data platforms and exports, aligning governance in pipelines.
• Ensure adherence to CCPA and state privacy laws.
• Coordinate with legal, infrastructure, and business teams to resolve governance issues.
• Support risk assessments and contribute to audits.
• Manage incident escalation procedures.
• Monitor infrastructure security issues with engineering for stability.
• Surface findings to data leadership and align policy with governance.
• Develop automation scripts to streamline processes.
• Use ITSM systems to manage requests and incidents.

Skills

SQL

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Data governance

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Lineage tooling

Metadata tools

Job description

Job Description

Strengthening and empowering all of the communities we serve.

This is a hybrid position based in Jersey City, New Jersey. The role requires working onsite at our Jersey City office two to three days per month, or more often as business needs require.

The Data Governance Analyst is a key contributor to the organization's Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) program, ensuring robust data governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance across all data assets. This role supports the implementation and continuous improvement of data governance frameworks, risk controls, and compliance monitoring processes to safeguard sensitive information, enhance data quality, and ensure alignment with internal policies and external regulations. This role is essential in enabling data-driven decision-making as well as building and enforcing data governance standards. This role reports to the Director of Risk, Compliance & Support.

The base salary range is $120,000 to $130,000 per year.

What you'll be doing:

• Partner with business teams to define, document, and maintain data governance and quality procedures, translating standards into actionable controls and creating new standards where needed.
• Will drive and coordinate data classification, dictionaries, metadata, and lineage documentation across all data assets to support discoverability, audit readiness, and risk mitigation. Partner with engineering on lineage tooling and keep documentation current as the environment evolves.
• Define and enforce standards for PII handling and data retention across production, staging, and test environments, ensuring privacy obligations are met consistently and data is retained only as long as required.
• Training and guidance to business stakeholders, data owners, and data stewards on data governance best practices.
• Generating reports and dashboards to track governance performance, data quality, risk indicators, and compliance metrics.
• Collaborate with Advance Cyber, Infrastructure Security, Data Engineering, and Enterprise Services to establish guidelines for user access, platform roles, table creation, integration connection, data exports, and AI/ML access based on data privacy considerations.
• Support data quality initiatives including profiling, monitoring, and remediation across revenue and audience data.
• In partnership with data owners and engineering, conduct systematic analysis of data assets to identify integrity issues, investigate root causes, and drive remediation.
• Serve as the policy-layer owner for all data platforms, covering access patterns, data sharing, integration connections, and export controls, and partner with data engineering to ensure governance requirements are built into pipelines and models, not applied after the fact.
• Ensure adherence to data privacy regulations such as CCPA and other U.S. state laws.
• Liaise with Infrastructure, legal, and business teams to resolve governance issues.
• Support data risk assessments and contribute to compliance audits.
• Operate escalation procedures in the event of an incident.
• Participate in monitoring, triaging, and resolving infrastructure security issues to ensure the stability and security of the company's infrastructure.
• Track governance performance, data quality metrics, and risk indicators, and partner with the broader engineering organization to ensure governance policy and infrastructure security are aligned; surface findings to data leadership.
• Develop and maintain scripts for automation to streamline processes and improve efficiency.
• Utilize information technology service management (ITSM) ticketing systems and fulfillment platforms to efficiently manage and resolve service requests and incidents.

To be considered for this role, you should have:

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science or related field
• Minimum 5 years' experience in GRC, data governance, data management, or a related role
• Experience leading and coordinating cross-discipline project teams
• Excellent oral and written communication and stakeholder management skills
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with data analysis and reporting tools
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Understanding of online privacy issues is a plus
• Knowledge of media industry and digital audience analytics is a plus
• Experience with metadata management and content classification tools is a plus
• General office environment. Extensive computer use required.

Additional Information

Advance Local Media offers competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package with affordable options for your healthcare including medical, dental and vision plans, mental health support options, flexible spending accounts, fertility assistance, a competitive 401(k) plan to help plan for your future, generous paid time off, paid parental and caregiver leave and an employee assistance program to s