Analyst, Data Governance

natgridProd • Waltham, MA

17h • Hybrid

About The Position

National Grid is hiring an Analyst for their Data Governance department. The role functions as a partner for the Data team, working closely with IT, business, product, and platform teams. The Data Governance Analyst will define and maintain new processes, including end-to-end data requirements. This involves process mapping, data mapping, data management strategy, risk and assumption identification, value case development, data change management, and data governance to ensure the reliability and safety of National Grid’s assets and customer information.

Requirements

• Lean Six Sigma/Continuous Process Improvement: Process mapping, establish the SIPOC, create and implement controls, and train the stakeholders on the process and the controls.
• Minimum 3-5 years of relevant business experience and working on digital product teams.
• Experience designing and refining value case (e.g., financial value to the business, strategic value, etc.).
• Experience in defining, testing, and refining product assumptions.
• At least 2 years working with (or within) a utility.
• Bachelor’s degree in data science, technology, or engineering required.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day governance of National Grid’s Gas data, including end-to-end review and triage of data impact on defect and improvement requests.
• Forum management.
• Deep dive analysis.
• Issue and risk management.
• Data privacy and security.
• Support business/operation workstream teams, participating in Agile sprints during the full product roadmap.
• Work with the Scrum team on sprint planning by helping define activities needed for the current sprint to meet objectives (e.g., user interviews, experiments, pilots, etc.).
• Construct business cases, including value projections and detailed investment estimates, ensuring alignment with product definition.
• Proactively identify riskiest assumptions and support the product team in designing and executing experiments to increase confidence in business case assumptions.
• Define future-state operations solutions (process, org change), including detailed current state-process and future-state process documentation.
• Provide support to product & technical workstreams (e.g., RFP support, stakeholder management, value alignment, IT governance, IT PMO).
• Support preparation of materials for key stakeholder readouts (e.g., Digital Board meetings).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level