Data Governance Analyst

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. 
 

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

For over 20 years, F5 has been the industry leader in application delivery. Now, we’re helping our customers improve the performance and security of their applications, whether in the cloud or at the edge. F5 is the only company on the planet that powers applications from development through their entire lifecycle, enabling our customers—enterprise businesses, service providers, governments, and consumer brands—to deliver differentiated, high-performing, and secure digital experiences to their customers. At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life and our data assets are critical to our mission.

We are looking for a challenge seeker with a passion for data to help us evolve our Data Governance program.  The Data Governance Analyst I will support Enterprise Data Management programs throughout the organization. The ideal candidate will possess a solid business acumen and the ability to evaluate processes and drive improvements. Self-motivation, strong organizational, and prioritization skills, and ability to multi-task and attention to detail are just a few of the competencies that will lead to success in this role. 

Come join a fantastic team and make a significant impact by leveraging your expertise in building governance processes and policies, drive strategic initiatives, optimize our data governance and metadata management practices, and lead digital transformation efforts. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment, providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. 

Primary responsibilities: 

• Support development of data governance framework and enterprise data governance policies, processes, standards and roles across the company 
• Improve data capture processes to enhance data quality and decision-making 
• Contribute to F5’s Data Governance Policies & Procedures and share with the company to ensure best practices are followed 
• Works with the business units to ensure data ownership and quality, and with F5’s Chief Privacy Officer’s team to ensure data privacy 
• Champion organizational behavior change as it relates to the use of data; realizing vision of data managed as an asset 
• Develop and maintain data governance policies, guidelines, standards, procedures, and communications in collaboration with data stewards and development teams. 
• Assist data stewards with the creation, documentation, and adherence of data governance standards. 
• Monitor and enforce compliance of data governance standards. 
• Participate in process mapping for data decision rights, and the development of business policies and practices for managing data. 
• Build partnerships with business stakeholders to anticipate opportunities for data governance activities and projects. 
• Assist with the development and implementation of data quality standards, data protection standards and adoption requirements across the enterprise. 
• Maintain data governance processes and controls by working with project and business leaders to analyze the impact of future changes on critical data sources and mitigate any potential risks to data quality and data privacy. 
• Develop an understanding of operational needs to set the direction for the organization's workflows; proactively identify opportunities to improve business workflow with technology improvements. 

Knowledge, skills and abilities to be successful: 

• Understanding of operational processes, data, systems landscape 
• Ability to communicate information clearly and concisely with program leadership, subject matter experts and key stakeholders. 
• Ability and willingness to recognize assignments or tasks that need to be completed, to seek out additional assignments or tasks and to help others. 
• Strong analytical skills, business intuition, and organizational ability. 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to operate in a cross functional and complex matrix environment. 
• Adaptable, open to change and able to work in ambiguous situations and respond to new information or unexpected circumstances. 
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, a