Data Governance Analyst - Birmingham or Atlanta

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Job Description:

At Regions, the Data Governance Analyst serves as a key resource and important intermediary between the data owners and the data consumers of the bank. Maintains connections and competencies in both the technical operational, reporting functional and analytical modeling data needs of the bank data citizens, with minimal guidance.

Primary Responsibilities

• Measures and monitors data quality, designs, and executes remediation plans, maintains, and supports applicable data management standards
• Implements and supports data quality requirements as designed by the Data Owner, including the business rules and movement controls
• Performs user acceptance testing (with applicable consumers) and reviews results with Data Owner for approval
• Reviews data quality issues, perform analysis, recommend fixes, and/or report timely any breaches of thresholds to Data Owners, Data Consumers, and escalate as needed to Enterprise Data Management (EDM)
• Manages and resolves or remediates data issues identified by Data Owners and Data Consumers
• Manages, executes and tracks data quality remediation plans in coordination with all stakeholders
• Tracks and reports data quality statistics for data quality for stewarded application(s), warehouse or mart (including developing evidence of compliance with Data standards)
• Collects and updates business metadata and references data for the data they are assigned to
• Translates business rules into data quality rules and produces data controls (in conjunction with the Data Custodians)
• Ensures data for all Enterprise Critical Data Elements (ECDEs) is provisioned in an appropriate authoritative source (in conjunction with Data Custodians)
• Supports applications and platforms to enable effective sharing of data from authoritative data sources
• Provides training and data assistance as needed
• May act as a resource to associates with less experience

This position is exempt from timekeeping requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Information Systems, or related field and seven (7) years of Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, or related experience
• Or High School Diploma or GED and eleven (11) years of Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, or related experience

Preferences

• Master’s degree in Business, Science, or related field

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to learn additional systems as needed
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions
• Ability to work under limited guidance
• Administrative ability and experience with communications with multiple stakeholders.
• Advanced skills in Data Analytics, Data Engineering, and Data Modeling,
• Capacity for day-to-day, hands-on execution
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team including an Agile team.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the applicable tools (e.g., DG, DQ, Metadata tool)
• Experience as a Scrum Master or Product Owner.
• Familiarity with data quality issues and Exact, Transform, Load (ETL) processes
• Presentation ability with multiple visualization tools.
• Skilled with advanced data management techniques and tooling that can leverage Big Data environment.
• Solid written, verbal, interpersonal, analytical, and application development skills
• Strong ability to review and analyze data, and identify and resolve problems
• Strong Banking Data Domain expertise including hands on experience and analysis of lending, deposit, and investment da