Senior Data Governance & Metadata Lead

BranCore Technologies; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

BranCore Technologies in the Richmond, VA area seeks an experienced Data Governance Analyst to support the Enterprise Data Governance Program, collaborating with Data Owners, Data Stewards, and IT teams to establish trusted data assets on the AWS/Snowflake platform.

The role focuses on governance processes, metadata, business rules, data quality standards, stewardship, and onboarding of new datasets, with a hybrid schedule (2 days on-site).

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.
• Experience facilitating governance workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
• Strong SQL skills for data analysis and validation.
• Experience documenting metadata, business glossaries, and data dictionaries.
• Experience defining business rules and Critical Data Elements (CDEs).
• Experience performing data profiling, reconciliation, and validation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Data Governance: Support implementation of the client's Enterprise Data Governance Program.
• Metadata Management: Capture and maintain business metadata, technical metadata, and data dictionaries.
• Data Quality: Define business data quality rules and monitor metrics.
• Data Lineage & Architecture: Document data lineage and end-to-end data flows.
• Enterprise Data Platform: Collaborate with Data Engineers supporting Python-based AWS data pipelines and Snowflake datasets.
• Reporting & Communication: Produce governance dashboards and executive reports.

Skills

Data Analysis

SQL

Data Governance

Data Quality

Metadata Management

Data Lineage

Stakeholder Facilitation

Tools

AWS

Snowflake

Python

Power BI

SharePoint

Glue

S3

Job description

BranCore Technologies in the Richmond, VA area seeks an experienced Data Governance Analyst to support the Enterprise Data Governance Program, collaborating with Data Owners, Data Stewards, and IT teams to establish trusted data assets on the AWS/Snowflake platform.

The role focuses on governance processes, metadata, business rules, data quality standards, stewardship, and onboarding of new datasets, with a hybrid schedule (2 days on-site).