Senior Data Governance Analyst

American Century Investments • Kansas City, MO

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

American Century Investments is seeking a Senior Data Governance Analyst passionate about governing unstructured data at scale. This role involves partnering with business and technology leaders to design and implement enterprise governance controls for unstructured content, ensuring it is trusted, compliant, and AI-ready. The analyst will join the Enterprise Data Governance team and contribute to advancing governance programs in areas such as unstructured metadata management, information lifecycle management, records and retention, security standards, cataloging, and stewardship enablement. Collaboration with structured data teams to ensure consistent, end-to-end governance practices is also key. Success requires executing and evolving the data governance operating model, leveraging governance tools for automated controls, and addressing challenges like content sprawl, data discoverability, sensitivity labeling, retention, legal hold, and regulatory compliance. The role involves influencing stakeholders, translating governance concepts for diverse audiences, and designing scalable solutions in a dynamic environment. This is a hybrid position based in Kansas City, MO.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in data governance, data management, or data operations, including hands-on experience with unstructured data (classification, tagging, retention, access controls).
• Experience governing unstructured metadata and aligning to structured data standards where needed.
• Experience with governance tools (for example Collibra, Informatica, IBM IGC) supporting metadata management, data cataloging, lineage, and traceability.
• Experience partnering with data platform and cloud teams to operationalize metadata enrichment or governance controls.
• Familiarity with AI-ready data concepts, including governance of unstructured data used in AI, search, or RAG-based solutions.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex governance concepts to technical and business audiences.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a methodical approach.
• Familiarity with data security and data protection principles.
• Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven.

Nice To Haves

• Experience governing unstructured data in platforms such as SharePoint, Teams, file shares, or cloud repositories.
• Experience with records management, retention, and legal hold processes.
• Experience developing data classification and retention policies and standards.
• Experience in financial services or asset management.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies and automation supporting data governance.
• Project management, Agile, or Six Sigma experience.
• Experience with Python or SQL.

Responsibilities

• Execute and evolve the enterprise data governance operating model across unstructured data (primary) and structured data (secondary), including data supporting AI and analytics use cases.
• Drive the rollout and adoption of unstructured data governance practices across key platforms (for example SharePoint, Teams, file shares, and cloud repositories), ensuring metadata quality, classification accuracy, retention readiness, and AI fitness.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, legal, privacy, and records management requirements across the information lifecycle.
• Provide oversight of Data Domain teams and review governance artifacts, including: data maps and content inventories, data issue tracking and remediation, metadata documentation and standards alignment, classification, retention, and procedural standards, access controls, security, and entitlements, audit, legal hold, and retention readiness.
• Partner with Data Owners, Stewards, and technology teams to design and implement workflows, dashboards, and automation for classification, labeling, metadata generation, retention controls, and eDiscovery readiness.
• Partner with HR Learning and Development to deliver governance, stewardship, and tooling training programs.
• Serve as a Collibra administrator, driving platform adoption, enabling users, and promoting consistent use of governance tools.
• Collaborate with governance technology vendors to influence roadmap enhancements across metadata, classification, lineage, and policy enforcement.
• Manage and evolve internal data products, including unstructured content repositories and AI-ready metadata assets such as taxonomies, labels, and ownership models.
• Partner with data platform and cloud engineering teams to define governance requirements and guardrails for AWS-based processes that extract, enrich, and register unstructured metadata.
• Design and operationalize governance standards within automated metadata pipelines, ensuring controls for classification, lineage, retention, and access are embedded by design.
• Enable trusted use of unstructured data across AI, analytics, and RAG-based solutions by ensuring proper metadata, governance workflows, and stewardship controls are in place.
• Align governance practices with AI intake, risk assessment, and inventory processes, ensuring traceability between data, use cases, and controls.
• Translate AI-ready data requirements into scalable governance patterns that can be consistently applied across domains and teams.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package with bonus plan
• Generous PTO and competitive benefits
• 401k with 5% company match plus annual performance-based discretionary contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, formal mentorship program, live and online learning

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree