Data Governance Specialist — Enterprise Data & Quality

Teradyne; Reading, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Job summary

Teradyne is seeking a Data Governance Analyst in North Reading, MA to design, implement, and scale data governance across customer, supplier, and product data domains. You will partner with data owners and engineers to ensure trusted, compliant data supporting analytics, ERP, and AI/ML initiatives.

You will lead policy and tooling integration, develop metadata and glossaries, and drive onboarding and adoption among stewards and teams to strengthen the company’s data governance model.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in data governance, data quality, data engineering, analytics engineering, or a related data role.
• Working knowledge of data governance concepts such as data ownership and stewardship, business glossaries and metadata management, and data quality dimensions and controls.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, relational databases, data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical governance solutions.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to identify and resolve data quality issues across source systems and downstream platforms.
• Familiarity with data privacy and compliance concepts such as GDPR and SOX.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work closely with data owners, stewards, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation and operationalization of enterprise data governance standards, policies, and controls across core data domains.
• Develop data quality checks, validation rules, monitoring frameworks, technical metadata, business glossaries, and lineage documentation.
• Collaborate with Data Owners, Stewards, architects, engineers, and application teams to define business rules, critical data elements, and ownership models.
• Build and configure data governance, data quality, and catalog tools while integrating governance capabilities into data pipelines, ERP systems, and analytics platforms.
• Support root cause analysis, remediation of data quality issues, governance onboarding, training, and adoption for stewards and technical teams.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to continuously improve Teradyne’s data governance operating model and proactively identify governance and data quality risks.

Skills

Data governance

SQL

Data quality

Data pipelines

ETL/ELT

Cloud data platforms

Tools

Informatica

Collibra

Alation

Atlan

Job description

Teradyne is seeking a Data Governance Analyst in North Reading, MA to design, implement, and scale data governance across customer, supplier, and product data domains. You will partner with data owners and engineers to ensure trusted, compliant data supporting analytics, ERP, and AI/ML initiatives.

You will lead policy and tooling integration, develop metadata and glossaries, and drive onboarding and adoption among stewards and teams to strengthen the company’s data governance model.