Information Management Analyst I

USAA•San Antonio, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

USAA is seeking an Information Management Analyst I to identify and manage existing and emerging risks related to business activities and their job role. This role involves ensuring risks are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled, and adhering to written risk and compliance policies. The analyst will leverage intermediate data management knowledge to support information management practices, acting as a steward or support for the information steward. Key responsibilities include identifying process improvements, participating in cross-functional team discussions, and contributing to the development of best practices and tools. The role also involves maintaining Information Asset Inventories, ensuring appropriate data classification, and supporting the delivery of information in accordance with Information Governance standards. This includes maintaining the metadata repository, reviewing and validating metadata and data quality information, and developing definitions, data quality rules, thresholds, and standard metrics. The analyst will also develop controls to mitigate data quality risks, including creating data quality plans, implementing rule checks, and monitoring results through reports and dashboards. Documentation and update of data quality corrective action plans are also part of the role. Furthermore, the analyst will support the compliance assessment process by reviewing and documenting failures from data quality compliance assessment checks. They will recommend Master and Reference Data processes and procedures to align with Enterprise Policies and Standards, create and maintain reference data, and manage the quality and maintenance of master data. Support for archiving and purging activities in compliance with legal requirements, in partnership with IT, is also expected, including the development of archiving and purging strategies. The role involves supporting the compliance assessment process by identifying and escalating potential risks to the corporation and managing Data Access security as needed. Additionally, the analyst will support Privacy initiatives through classification, tagging, and analysis of sensitive data, ensuring compliance and remediation of sensitive data according to defined policies and processes. This position may allow for partial telecommute.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business and Information Systems, Computer Science, or related, and 4 years of experience in the job offered or in a related occupation.
Alternatively, Master’s degree in Business and Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field, 2 years of experience in the job offered or in a related occupation.
Designing visualizations using Tableau software
Publishing dashboards on web and desktop platforms
Developing automation and validation of key control data
Applying quantitative analytical approaches to draw conclusions and produces insight for the Bank
Information Governance RAMs, KRIs and KPIs
Information Governance Catalog – for Metadata and Data Lineage management, and designation of Authoritative Data Sources
Supporting Stewardship activities including Business Metadata, tagging Metadata to Technical Metadata and Report Metadata
Establishing the framework, Process, SOP, and training to enable the different LOB's to identify Critical Data Elements (CDEs)
Working with and capturing business and technical metadata for Critical Data Elements (CDEs)
Maintaining Information Asset Inventories
Executing and identifying opportunities to strengthen Controls
Translating business needs and usage to technical specifications (including calculations and observations)
Data Profiling, Quality Analysis, Governance, and Reporting
DB2, Tableau, Salesforce, Information Analyzer, IGC InfoSphere, DQE Tool, ServiceNow, SQL, Python, Alation, Snowflake, Dremio, Coginiti Pro, Microsoft Office and Visual Basic Macros

Nice To Haves

Partial telecommute may be allowed.

Responsibilities

Identify and manage existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and the job role.
Ensure risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled.
Follow written risk and compliance policies and procedures for business activities.
Leverage intermediate data management knowledge in support of one or many of the information management practices.
Act in a steward capacity or a support role with expertise for the information steward as needed.
Identify opportunities for improvement in processes.
Participate in and possibly lead discussions with cross-functional teams.
Participate in development of best practices and tools based on business needs.
Maintain Information Asset Inventories.
Ensure data and assets are classified appropriately.
Support delivery of information in accordance with Information Governance standards and data management practices through documentation, collaboration, and execution of defined processes.
Maintain metadata repository and proper metadata association.
Review, validate, and record metadata and data quality information.
Develop definitions, data quality rules, thresholds, and standard metrics of quality for data elements that support critical business processes.
Develop controls to mitigate data quality risks including data quality plan development, implementing data quality rule checks, monitoring data quality results, reports and dashboards, as appropriate.
Document and update data quality corrective action plans.
Support compliance assessment process by reviewing and documenting failures from data quality compliance assessment checks.
Recommend Master and Reference Data processes and procedures to align with Enterprise Policies and Standards.
Create and maintain reference data in accordance to defined processes and procedures.
Manage quality and maintenance of master data as it is created.
Support archiving and purging activities of data in compliance with legal requirements in partnership with IT.
Develop archiving and purging strategies and processes in stewardship capacity as needed.
Support compliance assessment process by identifying and escalating items that may be a risk to the corporation.
Manage Data Access security as needed in a steward capacity.
Support Privacy initiatives through classification, tagging, and analysis of sensitive data.
Ensure compliance and remediation of sensitive data in accordance to defined policies and processes.