Senior Data Governance Analyst

This job will partner with key business, analytics, and technology stakeholders to identify business challenges, formulate a data plan, drive the insights, and develop solutions to enable the business teams to perform at the highest levels. This individual is responsible for driving understanding and decision making from data, working with key executives down to analysts. This role is part of the Data and Analytics COE which consists of experts and advisors with a specific focus on generating business insight, governing data assets, and promoting the use of data and analytics to achieve business outcome and measurable ROI across the enterprise. The Data Governance Analyst will develop procedures to support the accuracy, security, and integrity of Delta Dental's Data. The role will help maintain best practices regarding data access. Provide expertise, guidance, and support in establishing, operationalizing and sustaining a data governance program that identifies, defines, manages and publishes data standards and policies. The individual will facilitate business processes and guide cross functional Data Stewards in developing enterprise solutions in coordination with IT. In addition, this individual is responsible for identifying, defining and maintaining Data Governance workflows, integrations, master data definitions and corresponding metadata within all represented data domains, ensuring the quality and availability of that data, and coordinating the delivery efforts of that data under proper controls.

• Partners with Business and Technical Data Stewards to identify, define and maintain data definitions and corresponding metadata across business functions and data domains
• Serves as liaison with Business and Data/Technology teams to apply data standards and processes (e.g. data access, classification, quality, certification, metadata, lifecycle and retention, etc.)
• Maintains data management processes, data procedures, and data principles
• Promotes the data governance framework and drive adoption across all the company’s divisions
• Establishes data quality standards, rules and metrics
• Monitors the compliance and progress of data domain and work to make sure the data governance program goals are accomplished
• Provides thought leadership to further develop processes, roles & responsibilities, and help meet the expectations of its data governance policy
• Works with the business units to ensure data ownership and resolve multiple sources of truth issues with key stakeholders via clear standardized definitions
• Drives identification and end-to-end governance of critical data elements and certification of enterprise data assets
• Champions organizational behavior change as it relates to the use of data; Realizing vision of data managed as an asset
• Maintains a high level of competency around data governance tools
• Ensures data related policies, standards, and procedures are implemented, in compliance and properly followed
• Leads and/or supports facilitation of workshops, sessions and training to increase Data Governance Awareness and Data Literacy

• Experience directly related to defining, designing, implementing and managing Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Management and Analytics solutions and programs
• Experience in a role requiring collaboration across multiple functions within a large, complex organization
• Exceptional analytical, critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, and problem-solving skills with high attention to details and accuracy
• Ability to distill complex concepts into easy-to-understand frameworks and presentations
• Strong business acumen, ability to think strategically and build effective business partnerships
• Ability to clearly define and articulate Enterprise Data Governance Objective
• Experience with defining and operationalizing Data Governance Policies, Standards, Processes and Controls (e.g. metadata, data classification, data certification, data access, data retention, lineage etc.)
• Experience with Data Governance tools e.g. Collibra to design and build operating model, importing or exporting content, customizing dashboards & widgets, views, creating automation workflows, etc.
• Strong functional understanding of data and analytics architecture, platforms, and frameworks; including data modeling, data ingestion, data pipelines (ETL)
• Solid understanding of data issues that impact user experience and remediations that need to be implemented to resolve data issues, via business processes and technical capabilities
• Hands-on functional and technical experience in performing data quality, profiling and analysis
• Knowledge of Healthcare and Personal Information Privacy Laws is preferred
• Familiarity with standard relational database structures, SQL; Tableau and Business Objects nice