Data Governance

Growth Acceleration Partners; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Growth Acceleration Partners seeks a Data Governance professional to drive governance initiatives across multiple business units in a dynamic environment. You will partner with stakeholders to understand data landscapes, capture requirements, and translate them into actionable governance deliverables.

Responsibilities include maintaining data catalog definitions, ownership, and metadata; shaping data quality rules with quality teams; and supporting governance documentation for regulatory and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Management, or related roles.
• Proven hands-on experience supporting data governance execution in regulated environments (financial services, banking, insurance, or similar).
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders to understand data needs, challenges, and priorities.

Responsibilities

• Support the execution of data management and governance initiatives across multiple business functions.
• Work directly with business stakeholders to understand current data landscapes, challenges, and needs.
• Capture outcomes from stakeholder meetings and translate them into clear action plans and governance deliverables.
• Identify and prioritize high-impact, low-complexity opportunities to deliver immediate value and demonstrate the tangible benefits of data governance to stakeholders.
• Contribute to the enrichment and maintenance of the enterprise data catalog (definitions, ownership, metadata).
• Help define, implement, and monitor data quality rules in collaboration with Data Quality and Engineering teams.
• Support data lineage and metadata documentation efforts.
• Help coordinate data governance activities across domains, ensuring follow-through and execution.
• Document governance processes, decisions, definitions, and artifacts clearly and consistently.
• Participate in business-facing sessions and working meetings, bridging business and data teams.
• Support regulatory and audit-related data governance requirements through proper documentation and controls.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Data governance concepts

Stakeholder engagement

ETL/ELT understanding

Tools

Ataccama

Collibra

Alation

Informatica EDC

Azure Purview

Job description

• 5+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Management, or related roles.
• Proven hands-on experience supporting data governance execution in regulated environments (financial services, banking, insurance, or similar).
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders to understand data needs, challenges, and priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the execution of data management and governance initiatives across multiple business functions.
• Work directly with business stakeholders to understand current data landscapes, challenges, and needs.
• Capture outcomes from stakeholder meetings and translate them into clear action plans and governance deliverables.
• Identify and prioritize high-impact, low-complexity opportunities to deliver immediate value and demonstrate the tangible benefits of data governance to stakeholders.
• Contribute to the enrichment and maintenance of the enterprise data catalog (definitions, ownership, metadata).
• Help define, implement, and monitor data quality rules in collaboration with Data Quality and Engineering teams.
• Support data lineage and metadata documentation efforts.
• Help coordinate data governance activities across domains, ensuring follow-through and execution.
• Document governance processes, decisions, definitions, and artifacts clearly and consistently.
• Participate in business-facing sessions and working meetings, bridging business and data teams.
• Support regulatory and audit-related data governance requirements through proper documentation and controls.

Required Technical Skills

• Solid SQL skills to support data investigation, validation, and profiling (high priority).
• Strong understanding of data governance concepts, data ownership, stewardship, and metadata.
• Hands-on experience with data catalogs and lineage tools (Ataccama, Collibra, Alation, Informatica EDC, Azure Purview).
• Familiarity with data quality concepts and collaboration with DQ teams.
• Understanding of ETL/ELT processes and data pipelines.
• Experience using Jira, ServiceNow, or similar tools to track governance tasks and issues.