Staff Analyst - Data Governance
Core
Design and build a federated data governance model for a data mesh architecture, ensuring privacy, compliance, and security across the analytics data lifecycle for a global health tech company.
Role type
Staff Data Governance Analyst (Data Mesh)
Builds
Enterprise-wide data governance frameworks, policies, standards, and a federated data mesh enabling domain autonomy with centralized security.
Domain
Consumer health technology / Data Governance / Data Mesh
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Data governance framework design, data mesh architecture, metadata management, data lineage tracking, regulatory compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2), stakeholder management, policy development, data quality assurance, data stewardship oversight, security access control.
Preferred skills
Data lifecycle management (definition to destruction), strategic initiative leadership, governed data lakes/warehouses, data vault design, system design, programming languages.
Technologies
Databricks, Google BigQuery, Tableau, Looker, Quicksight
Responsibilities
Define strategic vision and roadmap for enterprise data governance; establish federated governance policies balancing domain autonomy with enterprise standards; oversee data stewards and owners to ensure accountability; implement data quality metrics and security/privacy controls; lead the Data Mesh Steering Committee; manage data lineage and metadata processes; resolve escalated data governance issues.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership
