Data Governance Analyst

Data Ideology•Pittsburgh, PA

1d•Remote

About The Position

Data Ideology is seeking a hands-on Data Governance Analyst to work at the intersection of data governance, analytics, technology, and business. This is a practical, operational role rather than a policy-only position. The analyst will collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to understand data, document and improve governance, investigate issues, and turn governance objectives into usable solutions. The role involves stakeholder conversations, data definitions, data quality, metadata, SQL-based analysis, reporting, and governance processes. The successful candidate will help make organizational data trusted, understandable, consistent, accessible to appropriate users, measurable, and practically governed. They will take ambiguous data problems, work with stakeholders to understand them, examine underlying data when needed, and drive issues toward resolution. The position is remote from home. Work is generally Monday through Friday, with specific business hours depending on client needs. The role has no supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
Approximately 2–5 years of experience in data governance, data analytics, business/data analysis, or a related discipline.
Experience working directly with business stakeholders, data owners, technical teams, or senior leadership.
Working knowledge of data governance, data quality, metadata and data definitions, data ownership/stewardship, and data access and usage.
Hands-on SQL experience and the ability to investigate and analyze data independently.
Experience with reporting or visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or similar platforms.
Ability to translate between business requirements and technical/data concepts.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Organized, curious, analytical, and comfortable working when requirements are not initially defined.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree.
Experience in banking, financial services, or another regulated industry.
Experience with enterprise data governance or data-quality platforms.
Familiarity with Informatica or comparable governance/data-quality tooling.
Experience with cloud data platforms or modern data environments.
Experience automating data, reporting, or governance workflows.
Exposure to master data management, customer data, hierarchy management, or enterprise metadata.

Responsibilities

Partner with business, data, technology, and governance stakeholders to identify and address data governance needs.
Facilitate conversations with data owners and subject-matter experts to establish data definitions, ownership, standards, and appropriate usage.
Support the development and maintenance of business glossaries, data dictionaries, metadata, data standards, and governance documentation.
Assist with data quality initiatives by identifying, analyzing, documenting, and helping remediate data issues.
Perform hands-on data analysis using SQL or similar tools to investigate governance and data-quality questions.
Analyze datasets to validate business rules, definitions, completeness, consistency, and accuracy.
Translate business requirements into measurable data rules and governance requirements.
Support data access, sharing, and usage-governance processes.
Build or maintain reporting, dashboards, or metrics that provide visibility into data quality and governance activities.
Work across teams to improve governance workflows and reduce manual or inefficient processes.
Communicate findings clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Move governance initiatives from discussion and documentation into repeatable operational processes.