Data Governance Analyst: Remediate Backlog & Create Dashboards

Apex Systems; Merrifield (VA); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401K with company match

ESPP

HSA

EAP

Career development

Job summary

Everforth Apex is seeking a Mid Level Data Analyst to lead remediation of a large data governance backlog. You will identify priority tables, create governance artifacts, and use SQL to profile data and document rules.

Hybrid role based in Merrifield, VA, Winchester, VA, or Pensacola, FL, with potential evolution toward BI focus. Collaboration with governance teams and stakeholders to deliver trusted, reusable data and dashboards in Power BI.

Qualifications

• Experience researching, compiling, documenting, and validating data, business processes, and data flows.
• Advanced SQL skills to query large datasets, assess table structures, and investigate data quality issues.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex workstreams with multiple stakeholders and deadlines.
• Experience creating or maintaining data dictionaries, metadata documentation, source-to-target mappings, or similar governance artifacts.
• Working knowledge of data governance concepts, including metadata management, CDEs, data stewardship, and data quality.
• Working knowledge of data warehousing concepts, database structures, and analytical data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end remediation plan for a large data governance backlog, including intake, prioritization, status tracking, and risk identification.
• Identify and prioritize key tables that require governance artifacts based on usage, business value, and reporting dependency.
• Create, validate, and maintain data dictionaries, source-to-target mappings (STTM), critical data element (CDE) documentation, and related governance artifacts.
• Use SQL to profile, validate, investigate, and document tables, fields, transformations, and business rules.
• Partner with data governance teams to align deliverables with enterprise standards and artifact approval workflows.
• Collaborate with internal analyst teams and subject matter experts to understand business processes and reporting dependencies.
• Translate technical findings into clear updates for stakeholders, including progress summaries, blockers, and recommended next steps.
• Support the democratization of clean, governed tables for broader enterprise use.
• Develop and maintain reporting or dashboard views, preferably in Power BI, to visualize remediation progress.
• Recommend improvements to documentation templates and governance processes to increase efficiency.
• Ensure documentation is business-friendly, technically accurate, and usable by various audiences.
• Contribute to analytics and business intelligence work as the backlog remediation matures.

Skills

SQL

Data analysis

Stakeholder comms

Project management

Data governance

Data profiling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, CS, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Power BI

Purview

Job description

Everforth Apex is seeking a Mid Level Data Analyst to lead remediation of a large data governance backlog. You will identify priority tables, create governance artifacts, and use SQL to profile data and document rules.

Hybrid role based in Merrifield, VA, Winchester, VA, or Pensacola, FL, with potential evolution toward BI focus. Collaboration with governance teams and stakeholders to deliver trusted, reusable data and dashboards in Power BI.