Senior Data Management & Governance Analyst

Horizontal Talent; Brooklyn (OH); On-site; USD 45,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Retirement plan

Job summary

Horizontal is seeking a Senior Data Management Business Analyst to support strategic data initiatives, modernization efforts, governance programs, and end-to-end data delivery across enterprise environments. You will collaborate with business and technical partners to shape data solutions, improve data quality, and strengthen data transparency.

Responsibilities include gathering and documenting requirements, leading discovery sessions, translating needs into data specifications, and supporting

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in business analysis, data analysis, data management, data integration, governance, or a related field.
• Strong ability to document business rules, data requirements, mappings, and data flow diagrams.
• Advanced SQL skills and strong analytical problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience with enterprise data environments, relational databases, and data warehousing concepts.
• Proven ability to perform data profiling, validation, lineage analysis, and impact assessments.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and documentation skills.
• Ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience working in large, complex enterprise settings.
• Familiarity with Jira and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to gather, clarify, validate, and document business and data requirements.
• Lead discovery sessions, workshops, and interviews to understand objectives, challenges, and data needs.
• Translate business needs into data specifications, source-to-target mappings, transformation logic, and data quality rules.
• Analyze current-state and future-state data flows, integrations, and enterprise data movement patterns.
• Perform data profiling, impact analysis, root-cause analysis, gap analysis, and validation activities across multiple systems.
• Support lineage documentation and traceability from source systems through reporting, analytics, and operational use.
• Review and interpret existing ETL processes and data flow artifacts to support modernization and enhancement efforts.
• Maintain documentation for project delivery, testing, operational readiness, governance reviews, and audit support.
• Collaborate with data engineers, data modelers, architects, governance teams, and delivery partners to align on solutions.
• Support intake, planning, testing, UAT, defect triage, and implementation readiness activities.
• Assist with Critical Data Element identification, certification, stewardship, and remediation efforts.
• Contribute to metadata management and data catalog documentation to improve visibility and trust in data assets.

Skills

Business analysis

Data analysis

SQL

Data governance

Data integration

Documentation

Communication

Stakeholder management

Large enterprise

Jira

Confluence

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Alation Data Catalog

Job description

Horizontal is seeking a Senior Data Management Business Analyst to support strategic data initiatives, modernization efforts, governance programs, and end-to-end data delivery across enterprise environments. You will collaborate with business and technical partners to shape data solutions, improve data quality, and strengthen data transparency.

Responsibilities include gathering and documenting requirements, leading discovery sessions, translating needs into data specifications, and supporting