Data Modeling & BI Platform Governance Lead

Cosm; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Cosm is seeking a Data Modeling, BI Platform & Governance Manager in California to design and govern the enterprise analytics data layer and support reporting and self-service dashboards.

You will partner with Data Engineering to define models, validate ETL outputs, maintain the data catalog, and oversee Tableau environments, while ensuring privacy, governance, and data quality across analytics users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in BI, analytics engineering, data modeling, data governance, or related analytical/data operations roles.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with relational data structures and analytics-ready datasets.
• Experience defining data requirements, validating data accuracy, and supporting ETL or ELT quality checks.
• Demonstrated experience documenting data models, business rules, metric definitions, and transformation logic.
• Experience maintaining or supporting a data catalog, data dictionary, or similar metadata documentation process.
• Hands-on experience administering or supporting Tableau or a similar BI platform.
• Experience managing permissions, access controls, and self-service reporting environments.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Data Engineering to define source-to-target data requirements, transformation logic, and business rules for analytics datasets.
• Document data models, ETL transformation steps, metric definitions, and the rationale behind modeling decisions to support transparency, consistency, and maintainability.
• Review and QA ETL outputs and final curated datasets to ensure accuracy, completeness, and alignment with business expectations.
• Maintain enterprise “gold” tables used for downstream reporting, analytics, and self-service dashboards
• Own and maintain the data catalog, business glossary, and supporting documentation for key data assets
• Partner with business stakeholders to gather, clarify, and prioritize analytics data requirements for the Data Engineering team.
• Administer the Tableau environment, including workspace organization, user access, permissions, and content governance.
• Support dashboard adoption by training users, enabling self-service development, and providing ongoing Tableau guidance and best practices.
• Help establish and enforce data governance standards, including data definitions, stewardship practices, access controls, and reporting consistency.
• Serve as the operational point of contact for Legal and Privacy-related data requests, including deletion requests, access questions, retention-related issues, and compliance support.
• Identify opportunities to improve data trust, reporting efficiency, documentation quality, and user experience across the analytics ecosystem.

Skills

SQL

Data Modeling

Data Governance

Tableau

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Tableau

Job description

Cosm is seeking a Data Modeling, BI Platform & Governance Manager in California to design and govern the enterprise analytics data layer and support reporting and self-service dashboards.

You will partner with Data Engineering to define models, validate ETL outputs, maintain the data catalog, and oversee Tableau environments, while ensuring privacy, governance, and data quality across analytics users.