Data Governance Analyst: Metadata Stewardship & Catalog

New York Life Insurance; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leave programs

Adoption assistance

Student loan repayment programs

Job summary

New York Life Insurance is seeking a Data Governance Analyst to design, implement, and optimize metadata management, data catalogs, and lineage workflows using Atlan and Unity Catalog. This individual contributor role collaborates with product managers, SMEs, and engineering teams to improve data discoverability, quality, and compliance across the enterprise.

With 5–7+ years’ experience including data governance, you will translate business needs into governance policies, participate in Agile

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, CS, IT or related field.
• 5–7+ years of professional experience, including 2–3+ years in a data governance function.
• Strong understanding of data governance frameworks, metadata management, and data cataloging/lineage concepts.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into governance policies, standards, and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Curate and maintain glossaries, taxonomies, and metadata for business and technical assets.
• Design and implement governance workflows (e.g., stewardship approvals, certifications, data access protocols).
• Support PII/PHI classification, data quality checks, and lineage validation.
• Collaborate with data product managers, SMEs, and engineers to capture business context, align it with technical architectures and strengthen metadata documentation.
• Drive adoption of governance tools through road-shows, training sessions, user enablement, and data owner/steward playbooks.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies by contributing to backlog building and sprint events in Jira.

Skills

Atlan experience

Data quality tools

SQL skills

Governance frameworks

Agile (Jira/Confluence/SharePoint)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business/CS/IT or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

SharePoint

Job description

New York Life Insurance is seeking a Data Governance Analyst to design, implement, and optimize metadata management, data catalogs, and lineage workflows using Atlan and Unity Catalog. This individual contributor role collaborates with product managers, SMEs, and engineering teams to improve data discoverability, quality, and compliance across the enterprise.

With 5–7+ years’ experience including data governance, you will translate business needs into governance policies, participate in Agile