Senior Data Governance Business Analyst

MasterApp Labs LLC; Richmond (VA); Hybride; USD 83 000 - 124 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Résumé du poste

MasterApp Labs LLC in Richmond, VA is seeking a Senior Data Governance Business Analyst on a contract basis to lead governance initiatives, assess data processes, and drive improvements across the enterprise. You will facilitate cross-functional sessions with data owners and engineers, translate policies into requirements, and help implement sustainable governance practices with measurable outcomes.

This role features hybrid work with on-site presence two days per week and exposure to enterprise

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in senior-level business analysis, requirements elicitation, and process improvement.
• Advanced facilitation skills for cross-functional sessions and driving decisions to resolution.
• Ability to translate policies and business requirements into operational processes and controls.
• Knowledge of enterprise data governance concepts including ownership, stewardship, access governance, data quality, and compliance.
• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills; able to work independently and with teams.
• Five or more years of experience in business analysis, requirements elicitation, or related enterprise functions.

Responsabilités

• Analyze governance gaps, risks, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Facilitate requirements elicitation and design for governance initiatives (current and future state).
• Translate governance policies and needs into actionable requirements, workflows, and controls.
• Develop process maps, SOPs, RACI matrices, and performance measures.
• Support implementation, automation, adoption, and continuous improvement of governance practices.
• Facilitate cross-functional sessions with data owners, stewards, BAUs, enterprise architecture, security, analytics, and partners.
• Document governance decisions, communicate requirements, and coordinate follow-through.
• Foster collaboration and accountability for governance across stakeholders.
• Define and monitor measures of governance effectiveness, engagement, compliance, and data quality.

Connaissances

Data analysis

Data lineage

Data policy creation

SQL proficiency

Data governance concepts

Stakeholder management

Communication

Formation

Bachelor's degree in information systems, business administration, information management

Outils

SQL Server

Oracle

Snowflake

Description du poste

Benefits

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Title

Senior Data Governance Business Analyst

Location

Richmond, VA, (Hybrid)-Onsite 2 days per week

Position Type

Contract

Interview Mode

Both Web Cam and In Person Interview

REPLACING REQ 812902

Key Responsibilities

Data Governance Business Analysis and Process Improvement

• Analyze business processes and data management practices to identify governance gaps, risks, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Facilitate requirements elicitation, root cause analysis, and current-state and future-state process design for governance-related initiatives.
• Translate governance policies, standards, business needs, and decisions into actionable business requirements, workflows, procedures, and operational controls.
• Develop process maps, business requirements, SOPs, RACI matrices, and performance measures to support governance implementation and accountability.
• Support process implementation, automation, adoption, and continuous improvement to establish sustainable governance practices.

Governance Facilitation and Enterprise Collaboration

• Facilitate cross-functional working sessions involving data owners, stewards, business units, enterprise architecture, engineering, security, analytics, and external partners.
• Facilitate complex discussions, reconcile competing priorities, evaluate alternatives, and support informed governance decisions by authorized stakeholders.
• Clarify governance decision rights, responsibilities, dependencies, and required actions for implementation.
• Document governance decisions, communicate requirements and outcomes to responsible teams, and coordinate follow-through to implementation.
• Foster collaboration and accountability for consistent application of governance practices across business and technical stakeholders.

Data Governance Operations and Continuous Improvement

• Support data owners and stewards in implementing governance policies, standards, roles, and responsibilities within operational processes.
• Collaborate with data owners, stewards, and enterprise partners to define, document, and monitor meaningful measures of governance effectiveness, stakeholder engagement, compliance, and data quality.
• Facilitate data quality issue identification, root cause analysis, remediation planning, and continuous improvement.
• Support data access governance and data sharing processes by ensuring authorized decisions, requirements, and conditions are clearly documented, communicated to execution teams, and tracked through implementation.
• Collaborate with enterprise partners to embed governance requirements into data onboarding, integration, management, and consumption.
• Elicit and document business and analytical requirements to help ensure governed enterprise data products meet consumer needs.

Areas of Contribution

The analyst may lead or support prioritized initiatives involving governance decision processes (Awareness, Risks, Issues, and Decisions — ARID), access governance, data sharing, automated data onboarding, Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI) and reference data management, data quality improvement, compliance reviews, and data product requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in senior-level business analysis, requirements elicitation, business process improvement, and complex problem-solving.
• Advanced facilitation skills, including leading cross-functional working sessions, navigating competing priorities, building consensus, and driving decisions to resolution.
• Proven ability to analyze, design, document, and support implementation of sustainable business processes.
• Ability to interpret policies, standards, and business requirements and translate them into practical operational processes, business rules, and controls.
• Working knowledge of enterprise data governance concepts, including data ownership, stewardship, access governance, data quality, compliance, and data lifecycle management.
• Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Five or more years of experience in business analysis, requirements elicitation, process improvement, or related enterprise business functions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting enterprise data governance initiatives, including governance process implementation, data stewardship, data quality, metadata, or access governance.
• Experience in government, healthcare, or another regulated environment.
• Familiarity with enterprise data integration, interoperability, master and reference data management, and governed data products.
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks (e.g. DAMA-DMBOK, DMMI) and process improvement methodologies (BPMN, Lean, Six Sigma).
• Familiarity with AWS, Snowflake, Commonwealth of Virginia/VITA standards, or relevant professional certifications such as CDMP.

Education

• A bachelor's degree in information systems, business administration, information management, or a related field is preferred. Equivalent professional experience and relevant certifications may be considered.

Required/Desired Skills

Skill | Required /Desired | Amount | Actual Years of Experience

• Data Analysis | Required | 10 |
• Experience with Data Lineage / Cataloging | Required | 10 |
• Data Policy /Procedure creation | Required | 10 |
• Proficiency with SQL | Required | 10 |
• Datawarehouse Experience | Required | 10 |
• Requirements Elicitation | Required | 10 |
• Experience with Databases (Relational databases, SQL Server, Oracle , Snowflake etc) | Required | 7 |

Flexible work from home options available.