Senior Data Governance Analyst - Hybrid (VA)

Stellar Professionals; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellar Professionals is seeking a senior Data Governance Analyst to support the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) in Richmond, VA. This contract role focuses on governance, metadata management, data quality standards, and stewardship for enterprise datasets ingested into AWS and delivered via Snowflake.

The candidate will collaborate with business and technical teams, document data lineage across Bronze, Silver, Gold, ODS, ADS layers, and ensure

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data analysis, data policy/procedure development, and requirements elicitation.
• 10+ years of experience managing data lineage, business glossaries, and data cataloging processes.
• 10+ years of advanced SQL experience and hands-on expertise with enterprise data warehouses.
• 7+ years of experience working with enterprise database systems (e.g., Snowflake, SQL Server, Oracle).
• Willingness to work onsite 2 days per week in Richmond, VA, and attend an in-person follow-up interview if requested.

Responsibilities

• Support implementation of the agency-wide Data Governance Program across the enterprise.
• Capture and maintain metadata, glossary, and CDE mappings across repositories.
• Define data quality rules, profile data, monitor metrics, and support remediation planning.
• Document end-to-end data lineage across multi-tier data layers and support impact analysis for new feeds.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers on Python-based AWS pipelines and governance of Snowflake datasets.

Skills

Data governance

Metadata management

Data quality

Data lineage

SQL

Data warehousing

Tools

Snowflake

SQL Server

Oracle

Python

Power BI

SharePoint

AWS (S3, Glue)

Job description

Stellar Professionals is seeking a senior Data Governance Analyst to support the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) in Richmond, VA. This contract role focuses on governance, metadata management, data quality standards, and stewardship for enterprise datasets ingested into AWS and delivered via Snowflake.

The candidate will collaborate with business and technical teams, document data lineage across Bronze, Silver, Gold, ODS, ADS layers, and ensure