Data Governance Analyst: Drive Trusted Data and Analytics

Accylerate; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Accylerate is seeking an experienced Data Governance Analyst to support an Enterprise Data Governance Program within an AWS/Snowflake-enabled data platform. You will work with Data Owners, Stewards, and IT teams to establish governance processes, metadata standards, and data quality controls across the enterprise.

The role emphasizes collaboration, workshops, dashboards, and executive-level reporting, with hands-on work in SQL, metadata management, and data lineage across Bronze to ADS layers.

Qualifications

• Experience implementing enterprise Data Governance programs.
• Experience facilitating governance workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
• Strong SQL skills for data analysis and validation.
• Experience documenting metadata, business glossaries, and data dictionaries.
• Experience defining business rules and Critical Data Elements (CDEs).
• Experience performing data profiling, reconciliation, and validation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support implementation of the Enterprise Data Governance Program.
• Facilitate governance workshops with business stakeholders.
• Support onboarding of new applications into the Enterprise Data Governance Program.
• Partner with Data Owners and Data Stewards to establish governance for new enterprise datasets.
• Develop and maintain governance policies, standards, procedures, and supporting documentation.

Skills

Data Governance

Data Management

Data Quality

Business Analysis

Metadata Management

CDEs

Data Profiling

SQL

Communication

Tools

AWS

S3

Glue

Glue Data Catalog

Lake Formation

Snowflake

Python

SQL

Power BI

SharePoint

Job description

Accylerate is seeking an experienced Data Governance Analyst to support an Enterprise Data Governance Program within an AWS/Snowflake-enabled data platform. You will work with Data Owners, Stewards, and IT teams to establish governance processes, metadata standards, and data quality controls across the enterprise.

The role emphasizes collaboration, workshops, dashboards, and executive-level reporting, with hands-on work in SQL, metadata management, and data lineage across Bronze to ADS layers.