Data Governance / Data Quality Analyst

Kforce Inc; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

HSA

FSA

401(k)

Life, disability & ADD insurance

Salaried personnel receive paid time /

Hourly employees are not eligible forP

Job summary

Kforce is seeking a Senior Data Governance & Data Quality Analyst in the greater Seattle area to partner with business stakeholders, data stewards, data owners, and AI program leaders. The role focuses on governance controls, data quality metrics, and AI governance processes across enterprise systems.

The position emphasizes business, governance, and technical skills to translate rules into implementation, with focus on data quality, lineage, and cross-functional governance initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise data governance, data quality, and stewardship.
• Ability to translate business rules into governance controls and quality metrics.
• Experience partnering with data stewards and owners across large organizations.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain business glossaries, data dictionaries, metadata, and critical data elements (CDEs).
• Partner with data stewards and business owners to establish ownership, standards, and governance controls.
• Support governance frameworks, stewardship processes, data classifications, and metadata management.
• Document lineage, source-to-target mappings, and governance artifacts.
• Support governance councils and cross-functional governance initiatives.
• Perform data profiling, validation, and quality assessments across enterprise platforms.
• Create, document, and maintain data quality rules and monitoring processes.
• Develop data quality scorecards, dashboards, and metrics.
• Support root-cause analysis and remediation of data quality issues.
• Validate critical data elements and business rules across source and target systems.
• Execute advanced SQL queries for profiling, reconciliation, validation, and testing.
• Support source-to-target mapping validation activities.
• Work within Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, and Informatica environments.
• Analyze data movement patterns and assess lineage across enterprise systems.
• Support testing and validation activities for data migration, reporting, and analytics initiatives.

Skills

Alteryx

SQL

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Azure

Informatica

Job description

Responsibilities

Kforce has a client in Tukwila, WA that is seeking Senior Data Governance & Data Quality Analyst to support enterprise data governance, data quality, stewardship, and emerging AI governance initiatives. This individual will partner with business stakeholders, data stewards, data owners, technology teams, and AI program leaders to improve data trust, establish governance controls, and enable responsible adoption of AI capabilities across the organization. This role requires a blend of business, governance, quality, and technical skills with the ability to translate business rules into governance controls, data quality metrics, and AI governance processes.

Core Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain business glossaries, data dictionaries, metadata, and critical data elements (CDEs)
• Partner with data stewards and business owners to establish ownership, standards, and governance controls
• Support governance frameworks, stewardship processes, data classifications, and metadata management
• Document lineage, source-to-target mappings, and governance artifacts
• Support governance councils and cross-functional governance initiatives
• Perform data profiling, validation, and quality assessments across enterprise platforms
• Create, document, and maintain data quality rules and monitoring processes
• Develop data quality scorecards, dashboards, and metrics
• Support root-cause analysis and remediation of data quality issues
• Validate critical data elements and business rules across source and target systems
• Execute advanced SQL queries for profiling, reconciliation, validation, and testing
• Support source-to-target mapping validation activities
• Work within Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, and Informatica environments
• Analyze data movement patterns and assess lineage across enterprise systems
• Support testing and validation activities for data migration, reporting, and analytics initiatives

Requirements

• Alteryx experience highly preferred
• To be considered for this position, candidates must have experience in a similar role, or they must possess significant knowledge, experience, and abilities to successfully perform the responsibilities listed
• Relevant education and/or training will be considered a plus

Pay

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• HSA
• FSA
• 401(k)
• Life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees
• Salaried personnel receive paid time off
• Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law
• Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave

Additional Information

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Equal Opportunity

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.