Senior Enterprise Data Governance Analyst

PenFed Credit Union; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking financial institution as a Senior Enterprise Data Governance Analyst. This role offers the chance to shape data governance practices, ensuring quality and compliance across the organization. Collaborate with business data stewards and leadership to drive innovative solutions that enhance data management and governance. With a focus on efficiency and effectiveness, you'll play a key role in developing metrics, managing data quality, and supporting the enterprise data team. If you're passionate about data and eager to make a significant impact, this is the opportunity for you!

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Plans

401k with Employer Match

On-site Fitness Facilities

Paid Time Off

Flexible Work Environment

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data governance and management.
• Strong technical background to work with Data Engineering teams.
• Experience in retail banking or finance is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of Data Governance processes across the organization.
• Manage Enterprise Data Quality issues in partnership with data stewards.
• Develop and implement solutions to enhance data governance.

Skills

Data Governance

Data Quality Management

Communication Skills

Project Management

Data Classification

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems

Master's Degree (Preferred)

Tools

Snowflake

SQL

Excel

Tableau

MS Office Suite

Job description

Overview

Are you looking to take your career from good to great? As an employee of PenFed, every day is an opportunity to thrive, and be part of a team working to ensure our organization is providing world class service to our members, employees, and our communities. We exist to help our members realize their full potential, educate and encourage their dreams, and make every effort to follow our mission and help our members “do better.” Joining PenFed is more than being an employee; it’s about being a part of the PenFed family.

PenFed is hiring a (Hybrid) Senior Enterprise Data Governance Analyst at our Tysons, Virginia; San Antonio, Texas or Irving, Texas location. The primary purpose of this job is to drive adoption of PenFed’s Enterprise Data Governance procedures by working with business data stewards. The incumbent will work with business data stewards to create/track/monitor the execution of the Data Governance project plan. Also, co-ordinate root cause analysis, prioritization and resolution of data quality issues. Will also drive data retention, archival, sensitive data identification, classification, and tagging as per the defined procedures.

The role will require development and management/maintenance of technical capabilities to support and mature data governance program, including day-to-day operations, administration and maintenance of the PenFed’s data governance toolsets. Develop and implement innovative technical/non-technical solutions and practices that advance objectives of the Enterprise Data Governance program. Forging effective partnerships with PenFed leadership, internal audit and interfacing with vendors to track and monitor enhancement, incident requests will be required.

Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties, and the position will perform other duties as assigned.

• Be the change/enforcement agent to enable user adoption of Data Governance processes, procedures, controls by business
• Identification and management of critical data elements inventory.
• Manage Enterprise Data Quality issues, in partnership with Business Data Stewards.
• Advise business data stewards in their adherence to Data Retention & Archival, Sensitive Data Handling, Data Sharing, 3rd Party Data Management processed and procedures.
• Define acceptable usage of data and drive consistency in interpretation and usage of data.
• Provide data governance support to the enterprise data team, and Data Owners and Data Stewards in the business, including recognizing issues and recommend solution alternatives.
• Design, document and present the technical design of components that develops and matures PenFed’s data governance program;
• Innovate and experiment newer ways of executing data governance processes that brings in efficiency.
• Partner with key PenFed internal stakeholders, i.e. info security, privacy, risk and business controls, internal audit, as and when required to keep the data governance program well integrated with other enterprise level programs.
• Create and maintain assets (job aids, standards) for program stakeholders (admin, data stewards/owners/custodians/engineers) to assist standardization of activities for efficiency.
• Design and develop metrics used for monitoring and reporting on the program, by downstream consumers and to support system operations.
• Provide technical and operational support for PenFed’s data governance toolsets.
• Lead requirements discussions with business and technical partners to evaluate the optimal path forward.

Qualifications

Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems or business management in the related field is required, Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of related work experience
• Domain experience in at least one of these: retail banking, mortgage, finance.
• Experience of standardizing best practices and rolling out at enterprise level
• Experience of working on any Data Governance and Management industry solution is preferred.
• Technical background to work effectively with Data Platform and Data Engineering teams to enhance and mature the Data Governance toolkit
• Proven experience with data governance concepts including policy, business glossary, data classification, data quality, data lineage, archival, sharing.
• Proven experience administering technology systems, with exposure/familiarity with data management tools such as Snowflake, SQL, Excel, Tableau.
• Must be proficient with MS Office Suite.
• Must have strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to work with all management levels, especially the ability to message in a concise and understandable way.

• Exposure/Familiarity with risk and control terminologies.

• Experience of defining project goals and measurable key results, building project plans, monitoring and managing risks and dependencies, reporting on the project progress, delays and successes.

• Knowledge and experience of working in Reference/Master Data management efforts will be an added advantage.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position will not directly supervise employees.

Licenses and Certifications

There are no licenses or certifications needed for this role.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an indoor office setting with moderate noise.

*Most roles require working in an office setting with moderate noise and the ability to lift 25 pounds.*

Travel

Limited travel to various worksites is required.

About Us

Established in 1935, PenFed today is one of the country’s strongest and most stable financial institutions with over 2.9 million members and over $31 billion in assets. We serve members in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in Guam and Puerto Rico. We are federally insured by NCUA and we are an Equal Housing Lender. We are available to members worldwide, via the web, seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day.

We provide our employees with a lucrative benefits package including robust medical, dental and vision plan options, plenty of paid time off, 401k with employer match, on-site fitness facilities at our larger locations, and more.

Equal Employment Opportunity
PenFed management will maintain and observe personnel policies which will not discriminate or permit harassment or retaliation against a person because of race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, military or veteran status or obligation, the presence of a physical and/or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, and all statuses protected by applicable state or local law in all recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, overtime, position classifications, work assignments, facilities, promotions, transfers, employee treatment, and in all other terms and conditions of employment. PenFed will also prohibit retaliation against individuals for raising a complaint of discrimination or harassment or participating in an investigation of same.

PenFed will also reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability so that they can apply for a job or perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace and the threat cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation or if the accommodation creates an undue hardship to PenFed. Contact human resources (HR) with any questions or requests for accommodation at 402-639-8568.

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