Senior Data Governance Specialist

Ampcus, Inc; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampcus Inc. is seeking an experienced Data Governance Analyst to join our team in Richmond, VA.

This role focuses on governing data within an AWS-based platform and Snowflake, ensuring data quality, lineage, and metadata, while collaborating with data owners, stewards, and engineers to support operational and analytical use cases. The successful candidate will drive governance practices, develop metadata standards, and lead workshops with business and technical stakeholders to advance the

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, Data Quality, Business Analysis, Metadata Management, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience implementing or supporting enterprise Data Governance programs.
• Experience facilitating data governance workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
• Strong SQL skills for data analysis, profiling, reconciliation, and validation.
• Experience documenting metadata, business glossaries, data dictionaries, and governance artifacts.
• Experience defining business rules and Critical Data Elements (CDEs).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support implementation and ongoing maturity of the Enterprise Data Governance Program.
• Facilitate data governance workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
• Support onboarding of new applications and data sources into the governance program.
• Partner with Data Owners and Data Stewards to establish governance for new enterprise datasets.
• Develop and maintain data governance policies, standards, procedures, and supporting documentation.
• Translate business requirements into practical governance processes and artifacts.

Skills

SQL

Data Governance

Data Quality

Data profiling

Communication

Workshop facilitation

Python

Snowflake

AWS

Data modeling

Tools

AWS

Snowflake

Power BI

SharePoint

Python

Job description

Ampcus Inc. is seeking an experienced Data Governance Analyst to join our team in Richmond, VA.

This role focuses on governing data within an AWS-based platform and Snowflake, ensuring data quality, lineage, and metadata, while collaborating with data owners, stewards, and engineers to support operational and analytical use cases. The successful candidate will drive governance practices, develop metadata standards, and lead workshops with business and technical stakeholders to advance the