Data Governance Analyst Job

Job Summary
The Office of Data Governance is seeking an experienced Data Governance Analyst to support the implementation of DBHDS's Enterprise Data Governance Program. This role partners with Data Owners, Data Stewards, Business Owners, Enterprise Architecture, Data Engineers, and Information Security to establish trusted, governed enterprise data across the AWS Data Platform and Snowflake environment — supporting both operational and analytical use cases.

Key Responsibilities
• Support implementation and rollout of the Enterprise Data Governance Program
• Facilitate governance workshops with business and technical stakeholders
• Develop and maintain the Enterprise Business Glossary, metadata, and data dictionaries
• Define Critical Data Elements (CDEs) and business data quality rules
• Perform data profiling, reconciliation, and validation across enterprise sources
• Document business and technical data lineage across Bronze, Silver, Gold, ODS, and ADS layers
• Support governance of datasets ingested via AWS and published to Snowflake
• Produce governance dashboards, metrics, and executive-level reports
• Support onboarding of new applications into the governance program
• Assist with data classification, retention, and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)

Required Skills & Experience
• 10+ years in Data Governance, Data Management, Data Quality, or Business Analysis
• 10+ years' experience with Data Analysis, Data Lineage/Cataloging, and Data Policy/Procedure creation
• 10+ years' proficiency in SQL and Data Warehousing
• 10+ years' experience with Requirements Elicitation
• 7+ years' experience with relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake, etc.)
• Proven experience implementing enterprise Data Governance programs
• Experience documenting metadata, business glossaries, and CDEs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Skills & Certifications
• Hands-on experience with AWS (S3, Glue, Glue Data Catalog, Lake Formation), Snowflake, Python, Power BI, SharePoint
• Background in healthcare, behavioral health, Medicaid, or Virginia state government
• Knowledge areas: Data Stewardship, Master Data Management, Data Catalogs, Data Classification, AI-ready Data Governance
• Data Governance/Management credentials

Scheduling & Logistics
• Work Location: Richmond, Virginia (Hybrid) — onsite 2 days/week
• Duration: 12 months