Job Title: Sr Data Governance Analyst
Location: Richmond, VA 23219 (Hybrid-Two days onsite)
Yakshna Solutions, Inc., (YSI) is a CMMI Level 3 assessed, ISO 9001, 20000:1, 27001 certified, woman-owned small business enterprises, headquartered in Herndon, VA, USA. YSI provides professional IT solutions and services to business corporations and government organizations. YSI is committed to serving business communities as a leading IT vendor providing innovative, quality, and cost-effective IT business solutions and services.
We offer a competitive benefits package that includes the following: 401(k), health, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, paid time off, training, and professional development assistance.
YSI is seeking a Senior Data Governance Analyst to support the implementation and ongoing improvement of enterprise data governance. This role partners with data owners, stewards, and business teams to translate governance policies and standards into sustainable business processes. The ideal candidate brings strong business analysis, facilitation, and data governance skills to drive process improvement, stakeholder collaboration, accountability, and governance adoption across the organization.
The analyst may lead or support prioritized initiatives involving governance decision processes (Awareness, Risks, Issues, and Decisions — ARID), access governance, data sharing, automated data onboarding, Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI) and reference data management, data quality improvement, compliance reviews, and data product requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze business processes and data management practices to identify governance gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Facilitate requirements gathering, root cause analysis, and current- and future-state process design.
- Translate governance policies, standards, and business needs into actionable requirements, workflows, procedures, and controls.
- Develop process maps, business requirements, SOPs, RACI matrices, and performance metrics.
- Support governance implementation, process automation, stakeholder adoption, and continuous improvement.
- Facilitate cross-functional discussions with data owners, stewards, business units, and technical teams to align priorities and support governance decisions.
- Clarify governance roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and implementation requirements.
- Document governance decisions, communicate outcomes, and coordinate follow-through.
- Support data owners and stewards in embedding governance policies, standards, and responsibilities into daily operations.
- Define and monitor measures of governance effectiveness, compliance, stakeholder engagement, and data quality.
- Facilitate data quality issue analysis, remediation planning, and continuous improvement.
- Support data access, sharing, onboarding, integration, and management processes to ensure governance requirements are consistently applied.
- Gather and document business and analytical requirements to ensure governed data products meet business and consumer needs.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience in senior-level business analysis, requirements elicitation, business process improvement, and complex problem-solving.
- Advanced facilitation skills, including leading cross-functional working sessions, navigating competing priorities, building consensus, and driving decisions to resolution.
- Proven ability to analyze, design, document, and support implementation of sustainable business processes.
- Ability to interpret policies, standards, and business requirements and translate them into practical operational processes, business rules, and controls.
- Working knowledge of enterprise data governance concepts, including data ownership, stewardship, access governance, data quality, compliance, and data lifecycle management.
- Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Five or more years of experience in business analysis, requirements elicitation, process improvement, or related enterprise business functions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting enterprise data governance initiatives, including governance process implementation, data stewardship, data quality, metadata, or access governance.
- Experience in government, healthcare, or another regulated environment.
- Familiarity with enterprise data integration, interoperability, master and reference data management, and governed data products.
- Knowledge of data governance frameworks (e.g. DAMA-DMBOK, DMMI) and process improvement methodologies (BPMN, Lean, Six Sigma).
- Familiarity with AWS, Snowflake, Commonwealth of Virginia/VITA standards, or relevant professional certifications such as CDMP.
- Education: A bachelor's degree in information systems, business administration, information management, or a related field is preferred. Equivalent professional experience and relevant certifications may be considered.
