Senior Data Governance & Metadata Analyst

RICEFW Technologies Inc; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

RICEFW Technologies Inc. is seeking an experienced Data Governance Analyst to support the Enterprise Data Governance Program for a Virginia state government agency.

You will collaborate with data owners, stewards, and engineers to establish governance across enterprise datasets ingested into the AWS data platform and consumed via Snowflake. The role emphasizes metadata, business glossaries, and data quality standards, with responsibilities spanning governance workshops, data lineage, and

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, Data Quality, Business Analysis, Metadata Management, or related disciplines.
• Experience implementing enterprise Data Governance programs.

Responsibilities

• Support implementation of the DBHDS Enterprise Data Governance Program.
• Facilitate governance workshops with business stakeholders.
• Support onboarding of new applications into the Enterprise Data Governance Program.
• Partner with Data Owners and Data Stewards to establish governance for new enterprise datasets.
• Develop and maintain governance policies, standards, procedures, and supporting documentation.
• Capture and maintain business metadata, technical metadata, and data dictionaries.
• Develop and maintain the Enterprise Business Glossary.
• Define and document Critical Data Elements (CDEs).
• Map business metadata to technical metadata.
• Support metadata ingestion into the enterprise metadata repository.
• Define business data quality rules.
• Support data profiling and business validation activities.
• Monitor data quality metrics and trends.
• Assist Data Stewards with remediation planning.
• Perform reconciliation and validation across enterprise data sources.
• Document business and technical data lineage.
• Document end-to-end data flows.
• Assist with impact analysis for new data sources.
• Support governance across Bronze, Silver, Gold, ODS, and ADS layers.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers supporting Python-based AWS data pipelines.
• Support governance of enterprise datasets published to Snowflake.
• Assist with proof-of-concept initiatives to consolidate data from multiple source systems into governed enterprise data assets.
• Support ILM, data classification, retention, and internal data sharing processes.
• Produce governance dashboards and metrics.
• Prepare executive presentations and governance reports.
• Present recommendations to governance committees and project teams.
• Communicate governance requirements to both business and technical audiences.

Skills

SQL for data analysis

Governance facilitation

Data governance programs

Written & verbal communication

Metadata management

Tools

AWS

S3

Glue

Glue Data Catalog

Lake Formation

Snowflake

Python

SQL

Power BI

SharePoint

Job description

RICEFW Technologies Inc. is seeking an experienced Data Governance Analyst to support the Enterprise Data Governance Program for a Virginia state government agency.

You will collaborate with data owners, stewards, and engineers to establish governance across enterprise datasets ingested into the AWS data platform and consumed via Snowflake. The role emphasizes metadata, business glossaries, and data quality standards, with responsibilities spanning governance workshops, data lineage, and