Data Use Governance Specialist

Bank of America; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 104,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary incentive eligible

Benefits eligible

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking an experienced Data Governance Analyst specializing in Data Use Governance to support the Global Information Security Data Governance team. The analyst will provide governance oversight for how data is requested, sourced, shared, provisioned, and consumed across applications, reports, analytics, APIs, event streams, AI/ML solutions, and other business and technology processes.

This hands-on role requires independent judgment, strong facilitation skills, and the ability

Qualifications

• 5 or more years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, Data Risk, Data Architecture, or a related discipline.
• 5 or more years of direct, hands-on experience in Data Use Governance, data-sharing governance, data-access governance, or a comparable data-consumption governance function.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating business use cases and determining the data, sourcing, approval, metadata, control, and evidence requirements needed to support an approved use.
• Experience working directly with upstream data providers and downstream data consumers to document and govern data-sharing relationships.
• Experience coordinating governance decisions across business, technology, security, risk, architecture, and data-management stakeholders.
• Experience identifying governance gaps, documenting findings, assigning remediation actions, and tracking actions through closure.

Responsibilities

• Manage Data Use Governance requests through intake, review, approvals, agreement creation, publication, tracking, and maintenance.
• Evaluate data use requests to ensure compliance with data governance, security, privacy, regulatory, and risk requirements.
• Partner with business, data, and technology teams to document business purpose, requirements, users, workflows, and expected outcomes.
• Review data elements, sources, transformations, delivery methods, and data flows to ensure appropriate use and governance compliance.
• Coordinate reviews and approvals with Data Owners, Data Custodians, Risk, Security, Privacy, and other stakeholders.
• Resolve incomplete, unsupported, or noncompliant requests while maintaining accurate governance records and supporting documentation.
• Support metadata management, including data catalogs, lineage, dictionaries, glossaries, registry records, and agreement documentation.
• Manage multiple concurrent requests and prioritize work based on business impact, risk, regulatory requirements, audit relevance, and project dependencies.
• Identify unauthorized or legacy data use, drive remediation efforts, and support exception and corrective action processes.
• Support audits, regulatory inquiries, governance reporting, and continuous improvement of governance processes, controls, templates, and stakeholder guidance.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Data Management

Agile Practices

Collaboration

Decision Making

Risk Management

Tools

Jira

SharePoint

Job description

Bank of America is seeking an experienced Data Governance Analyst specializing in Data Use Governance to support the Global Information Security Data Governance team. The analyst will provide governance oversight for how data is requested, sourced, shared, provisioned, and consumed across applications, reports, analytics, APIs, event streams, AI/ML solutions, and other business and technology processes.

This hands-on role requires independent judgment, strong facilitation skills, and the ability