Data Governance Analyst

U.S. Financial Technology•Remote,

1d•$94,250 - $107,500•Remote

About The Position

U.S. Financial Technology (U.S. FinTech) is seeking an experienced Data Governance Analyst to join their team. This is a full-time remote opportunity. U.S. FinTech operates the largest and most advanced mortgage securitization platform globally, supporting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's Uniform Mortgage-Backed Security (UMBS). They handle 70% of the mortgage-backed securities in the market, offering services for single-family issuance, bond administration, disclosure, and tax. Their cloud-based platform executes transactions at scale, enhancing liquidity in the secondary mortgage market. The company combines financial services expertise with technological innovation.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in information management, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or a related field.
Minimum 3 years experience in data governance, metadata management and platform DevOps administration.
Hands-on experience with governance workflow execution within Collibra DIP or other equivalent platform/applications.
Working knowledge of governance frameworks (DCAM, DAMA-DMBOK, NIST) and data quality principles.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to partner across business, risk and technology teams.
Strong analytical, planning and communication skills, with ability to partner effectively with internal and external business and IT teams.
Continuous learning and innovative mindset, especially towards AI-enabled data management and governance solutions.
Ability and willingness to learn modern technologies.
Possession of excellent communication, analytics and problem-solving skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience building reports or dashboards for governance and KPI monitoring.
Risk Management, Information Security, Privacy and Compliance related experience.
Direct experience with industry frameworks, including DMBOK, EDM DCAM or EDM CDMC.
Direct experience with data analytics and BI tools.
Knowledge of Cloud data technologies in AWS, Snowflake.

Responsibilities

Supports daily governance operations across catalog, lineage, and data classification/tagging processes.
Partners with data governance program lead and solution architects to drive consistent process adoption across domains.
Supports data stewards’ successful adoption of tool-based governance processes and monitors execution.
Operationalizes governance standards and control-based processes.
Generates risk and audit evidence of governance workflows execution.
Develops process-related SOPs, user guides, and trainings.
Supports Data Governance program execution, Data classification tagging, catalog and lineage management, stewardship engagement and tool-based processes adoption.
Supports Governance tool-based processes design and execution.
Supports Audit, risk and compliance inquiries.
Collaborates and contributes to the creation and execution of a strategic data governance roadmap.
Manages timely execution of data cataloging, lineage and sensitivity tagging processes in Collibra, MS Purview and other governance platforms.
Defines and assists with the technical design, configuration, and deployment of governance platforms (Collibra, MS Purview, other tools).
Develops and maintains SOPs, user guides, and user training.
Onboards and supports data stewards, ensuring compliance with governance workflows.
Collaborates with compliance, risk, and audit teams to validate control effectiveness and prepare required evidence.
Monitors, measures, and maintains the health of data catalog, lineage products/assets, process workflows, and marketplace content for usability.
Explores and identifies opportunities to collaborate with governance team members to improve/automate governance workflows and improve user experience.
Collaborates closely with the team to enhance system components for scalability, performance, and self-service enablement.
Partners with the team to evaluate and pilot AI driven governance solutions.
Embraces agile work practices for iterative backlog/sprint planning, prioritization, sprint delivery reviews, and retrospectives.
Fosters a collaborative and growth-oriented team culture and demonstrates organization’s values, ethics, and compliance standards.