Senior Data Governance Analyst

Ameren•Saint Louis, MO

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Ameren Services provides administrative support and services to Ameren Corporation and its operating companies, subsidiaries and affiliates. Ameren Services includes a wide range of skill sets and roles, from finance and legal experts to digital and cyber specialists, plus those charged with ensuring environmental compliance and operational safety. Together, we help execute a strategy that enables Ameren to deliver superior long-term value to customers, shareholders and the environment. The position involves designing and implementing the data governance & quality framework, operating model, and roles & responsibilities. The analyst will drive business understanding of data flows and dependencies, ensuring data quality and governance are priorities. Key tasks include creating and maintaining Information Asset Registers, identifying Data Owners, Stewards, and Custodians, and maintaining Data Standards and Policies while ensuring adherence. Responsibilities include defining roles and responsibilities for data governance and quality, developing related processes and procedures, and establishing visibility of agency data assets. The role involves establishing the data stewardship program, designing and implementing metadata model maps and lineage, data quality standards, roles, and metrics, and data governance process workflows. It also includes conducting requirement gathering, business analysis, and data architecture activities. The analyst will lead the review and sign-off of data protection language in contracts, participate in data protection reviews for Technical Work Assessment and Operational Readiness Board reviews, and engage in data maturity assessment sessions and gap analysis. Collaboration with EA teams and alignment with data strategy across the organization are crucial. The role requires developing strong working relationships with business users, providing business-impact-driven analysis, and communicating results to stakeholders. Understanding the Digital organization’s objectives and their impact on projects, contributing to new data governance strategies, and demonstrating knowledge of agile software development processes and the development lifecycle are also key. The role involves creating specification documents for new data management requirements and coaching less experienced co-workers.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in mathematics, statistics, computer science or business
5+ years of relevant experience
Strong record of implementation for data governance & quality projects and establishing DGOs (Data Governance Office)
Extensive experience developing detailed data governance workflows, operating models, and organizational structures.
Strong experience in identifying and mapping Data Flows
Extensive knowledge in data Governance & quality policies, standards, procedures, and metrics.
Experienced in data maturity assessment models and methodologies.
Expert in Meta-data management (Data Classifications, Glossary, and data lineage)
Good understanding of data governance and data quality and metadata management tools like Informatica and Collibra
Ability to organize and deliver trainings to the data governance established offices and client teams.
Extensive knowledge and understanding of privacy laws and regulations.
Strong understanding of agile and project methodologies and processes
Great communication skills with the clients as a consultant and with the team as a coach and monitor.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in mathematics, statistics, computer science or business
7+ years of relevant experience

Responsibilities

Design & implement the data governance & quality framework, operating model and roles & responsibilities.
Drive the business understanding of the data flows and their dependencies and ensure that data quality and governance is a priority for the business
Create and maintain functional Information Asset Registers and identify a community of Data Owners, Stewards and Custodians
Maintain Data Standards and Policies and assuring that data standards / policies are being followed
Define roles and responsibilities related to data governance and data quality, develop related processes and procedures, and establish a common understanding and visibility of all agency data assets.
Establish the data stewardship program, including identification, maintenance, training and ongoing communication with data stewards
Design & implement metadata model maps and lineage across data assets in the data governance project
Design & implement the data quality standards, roles and metrics
Design & implement the data governance process workflows
Conduct requirement gathering, business analysis and any data architecture activities with the data governance & quality programs.
Lead the review and sign-off of data protection language in all new contracts.
Lead the data protection reviews for Technical Work Assessment and Operational Readiness Board reviews for new products/projects
Participate in the data maturity assessment sessions and gap analysis.
Participate in alignment with EA teams and data strategy across the organization.
Coordinate with the project teams and others to ensure that data standards and models align with the overall enterprise architecture and applicable standards.
Develop a strong working relationship with the appropriate business users and provide business-impact-driven analysis and communicate results to stakeholders.
Understand the Digital organization’s objectives, and the impact on own projects; contributes to development of new data governance strategies
Demonstrates strong working knowledge of agile software development processes and the development lifecycle; liaises with scrum masters and coaches to move projects forward
Creation of specification documents for new data management requirements
Maintaining Data Standards and Policies and assuring that data standards / policies are being followed
Coaches less experienced co-workers and provides feedback to enhance skills and knowledge