DATA GOVERNANCE Business Analyst with Alation

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
No Travel Required
Unable to Provide Sponsorship

Skills

ATLAN
ALATION
DATA GOVERNANCE
BUSINESS ANALYST

Job Details

Job Title: Data Governance Business Analyst

The Data Governance Business Analyst is a strategic and hands-on role responsible for translating business objectives into an actionable data governance operating model - covering policy, metadata, lineage, quality, privacy, and stewardship. You will serve as the connective tissue between business stakeholders, data producers/consumers, and platform engineering, ensuring that critical data is discoverable, trusted, compliant, and ready to power analytics, AI, and regulatory reporting.

In this role, you will configure and scale leading governance platforms such as Atlan or Alation to catalyze adoption and embed governance into daily workflows. That includes designing business glossaries and taxonomies, automating metadata ingestion and end-to-end lineage, tagging and classifying sensitive data, and enabling issue management and policy attestations. You will leverage APIs and lightweight scripting to integrate with modern data stacks (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks ), BI tools (Tableau, Power BI), and enterprise systems (ServiceNow/Jira, SSO/RBAC), creating a seamless, value-driven governance ecosystem.

Beyond platform enablement, you’ll lead stakeholder workshops to define critical data elements (CDEs), ownership models, and data SLAs; orchestrate change management and training to cultivate data literacy; and establish a measurable KPI framework to demonstrate value—improving coverage, quality, and policy compliance while reducing risk and time-to-knowledge. Your work will directly accelerate self-service analytics and AI readiness by improving trust in data, clarifying definitions, and reducing duplicated effort and rework across teams.

Key Responsibilities

  • Governance design and analysis: define CDEs, ownership, policies, and standards.
  • Platform configuration/admin (potentially Atlan or Alation): set up catalogs, glossaries, lineage, tags, policies, workflows, roles/permissions, and SSO.
  • Source onboarding and automation: connect priority data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks), automate metadata scanning and lineage, and troubleshoot runs.
  • Metadata and integrations: model business/technical/privacy metadata; integrate with ETL/ELT, data quality/observability, ticketing, and BI via APIs/automation.
  • Data quality and compliance: implement DQ rules/SLAs for CDEs; classify sensitive data; enforce access/retention policies; support audits (GDPR/CCPA/HIPAA/SOX).
  • Adoption and change management: deliver training/playbooks, drive communities of practice, manage Agile ceremonies, and maintain a governance roadmap.
  • Reporting and KPIs: track coverage, quality, lineage, policy adherence, user adoption, and value realization; publish dashboards and updates.

Qualifications

  • Experience: 4-8 years as a Data Governance/Management BA; 2+ years hands-on with either Atlan or Alation strongly preferred.
  • Technical: strong SQL and data modeling; metadata, glossary, lineage, stewardship workflows; basic scripting (e.g., Python, SQL).
  • Ecosystem: familiarity with cloud (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform), data platforms (Snowflake/Databricks), ETL/ELT and observability (e.g., dbt, ADF,), ticketing (ServiceNow/Jira), and BI (Tableau/Power BI).
  • Governance & compliance: experience with privacy/regulatory requirements and internal controls; regulated industry exposure is a plus.
  • Soft skills: excellent facilitation, documentation, stakeholder management, communication, and change management.

 

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