Data Governance Analyst (open to hiring at Sr. Data Governance Analyst level)

Wellmark, Inc.; Iowa (LA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Wellmark, Inc. is seeking a Data Governance professional to ensure data integrity across the data warehouse. You will work as part of an IP agile team to plan and coordinate sprint work, perform data impact assessments, and profile data to meet governance standards.

You will also maintain metadata, load code sets, participate in design and code reviews, and develop data quality scorecards with data stewards. This role emphasizes collaboration, attention to detail, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or direct and applicable work experience.
• 1+ year in a business analyst or business systems role with analytics and BI tools.
• Strong analytical ability to model, design and implement data management solutions with stakeholders.
• Identify issues across sources and propose practical, out-of-the-box solutions.
• Curious, proactive, and focused on continuous improvement.
• Technical skills with SQL, SAS, Informatica, Power BI; exposure to Agile and Azure DevOps.
• High attention to detail and strong organizational skills; able to multitask.
• Excellent verbal and written communication to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Represent Data Governance on an IP agile team; plan work for sprints.
• Conduct Data Impact Assessments for agile initiatives and data integrity impacts.
• Perform Data Profiling and descriptive analytics to support data requirements.
• Maintain business/technical metadata and map source to target data.
• Load code sets and translation rules in code reference systems (STAR, CDMA, Informatica RDM).
• Support design reviews, code reviews, and remediation of data issues.
• Develop Data Quality Scorecards and monitor critical data elements.
• Identify data quality issues and assist in triage and resolution with data stewards.
• Create tools to build and maintain data assets; leverage SQL, SAS, Informatica, Power BI.
• Ensure compliance with SDLC, data warehouse standards, and governance policies.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder collaboration

Attention to detail

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SQL

SAS

Informatica

Power BI

Azure DevOps

Job description

Why Wellmark?

We are a mutual insurance company owned by our policy holders across Iowa and South Dakota, and we’ve built our reputation on over 80 years’ worth of trust. We are not motivated by profits. We are motivated by the well-being of our friends, family, and neighbors–our members. If you’re passionate about joining an organization working hard to put its members first, to provide best-in-class service, and one that is committed to sustainability and innovation,

Learn more about our unique benefit offerings here.

Want to know more? You can learn about life at Wellmark here.

Ensure the integrity of data within Wellmark’s data warehouse through the proper execution of tasks as outlined below. During the BUILD of data warehouse assets, this primarily includes oversight of the Design and Development phases of the SDLC (software development life cycle) process, including working as a member of an IP (information product) agile team to plan and coordinate work, conducting a Data Impact Assessment of the proposed design, profiling data to ensure it is fit for use, conducting Source to Target reviews, and identifying and loading Code Sets and Metadata. During the RUN of data warehouse assets, this can include supporting smaller ACR requests, creation of Data Scorecards, and assisting in researching and resolving data issues.

Required

• Bachelor’s degree or direct and applicable work experience.
• 1+ year of experience in a business analyst or business systems-type role which includes analytics and business intelligence tools usage.
• Analytical skills with the ability to work with modeling, designing and implementation of high-quality data management solutions while working closely with key business stakeholders.
• Ability to identify issues or inconsistencies, obtain relevant information, relate, and compare data from different sources, and recommend alternative, “out of the box” solutions.
• Naturally curious, proactive, and innovative mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Technical skills with the ability to work with tools such as SQL, SAS, Informatica, PowerBI, etc.
• Exposure to agile methodologies and management tools such as Azure DevOps.
• Demonstrated high attention to detail.
• Proven organizational and time management skills with the ability to continually re-prioritize and/or multi-task.
• Proven interpersonal skills - ability to develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and team members to ensure a collaborative work environment to reach shared goals.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing, expressing complex concepts clearly and concisely in order to deliver messages suited to the audience.

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree.

Job Responsibilities

• a. Represent Data Governance as a member of an IP (information product) agile team. Help identify, plan and coordinate work scheduled to sprints to support agile initiatives or ACRs submitted by the business.
• b. Conduct data Impact Assessments to review the appropriateness of the proposed design for agile initiatives, and the second order impacts to data integrity of the data warehouse.
• c. Perform Data Profiling and analysis to provide descriptive statistics and insights that support Data Governance and Technology resources in defining data requirements, designing data assets, creating Source to Target documentation, testing, and development of technical and business metadata.
• d. Assist in implementation and maintenance of Business Metadata by entering new and/or updating existing business/logical names, definitions, and valid values in the business metadata repository. Maintain Technical Metadata from source to target data mappings in the metadata repository. Communicate business metadata changes when data assets are released to production.
• e. Support the development of data assets by entering code sets and code translation rules in code reference management systems such as STAR, CDMA and Informatica RDM.
• f. Perform Source to Target, Design, and Code Reviews as needed.
• g. Support the remediation of data issues found in testing and production through data analysis when appropriate.
• h. Develop, publish, and maintain Data Quality Scorecards in collaboration with the Data Stewards in order to automate the collection and monitoring of critical data elements. Create Data Quality Trend Statistics and identify potential data quality risks to Senior and Lead Data Governance Analysts.
• i. Identify potential data quality issues found through Data Quality Scorecards or Data Profiling. Provide support in the triage, impact analysis and resolution of data quality issues as needed by data steward or technology resources.
• j. Develop tools to support the building and maintenance of data assets such as Testing, or Reporting tools needed by other Data Governance or Business Analytics resources. Leverage SQL and applications such as SAS, Informatica and PowerBI to help create efficiencies and enhance business processes and information.
• k. Keep informed, support and adhere to regulations and processes including Wellmark’s software development lifecycle (SDLC), data warehouse requirements / standards, Data Governance policies and procedures and business analysis and reporting protocols.
• l. Other duties as assigned.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

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