Governance Analyst - Intermediate

Job Description

Job Description

Senior Business Analyst Data Governance

Position: Senior Business Analyst / Data Governance Analyst
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Interview: Webcam Only
Contract: November 2, 2026 November 30, 2027
Submission Deadline: October 5, 2026

Our client is seeking a Senior Business Analyst / Data Governance Analyst to support enterprise-wide data governance, data stewardship, metadata management, data quality, policy development, and data-sharing activities.

The successful candidate will work with data stewards, data owners, custodians, program leaders, legal stakeholders, and business teams to improve data governance practices, strengthen data quality and protection, and support the implementation and continuous improvement of the organization's data governance framework.

• Senior-level experience in business analysis, data governance, data stewardship, data management, or a related field.

• Experience developing and maintaining data dictionaries, metadata, data catalogs, or Dataset Reference Sheets.

• Experience writing and maintaining data governance policies, procedures, and SOPs.

• Strong experience with data quality management and critical data elements.

• Experience managing or supporting centralized data requests and access governance.

• Ability to document technical metadata sources and business requirements.

• Experience creating data quality rules and tracking data quality issues.

• Strong analytical, documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

• Ability to explain complex technical and governance concepts to non-technical users.

• Experience developing and delivering data literacy, governance, or stewardship training.

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple requests, deadlines, and stakeholders.

• Intake, triage, and route internal and external data requests.

• Maintain audit trails and accountability records.

• Coordinate data-sharing activities with legal and business stakeholders.

• Support Data Sharing Agreements, retention requirements, and destruction obligations.

• Track request timelines and SLA adherence.

• Escalate overdue requests and unresolved issues.

• Support data stewards in developing and maintaining data dictionaries.

• Identify and document technical metadata sources.

• Capture business enrichment requirements.

• Maintain required data catalog fields and dataset documentation.

• Develop and maintain data quality rules for critical data elements.

• Track data quality issues through resolution.

• Monitor aging and closure metrics.

• Draft, review, and operationalize data governance policies and SOPs.

• Maintain governance documentation, SOP libraries, change logs, and decision records.

• Translate governance policies into practical business guidance.

• Provide guidance on data classification, handling, retention, and protection.

• Develop and deliver data literacy and data governance training.

• Create job aids, templates, guides, and reference materials.

• Measure training effectiveness and improve training programs.

• Tailor training content to different business groups and levels of governance maturity.

• Work closely with data owners, data stewards, custodians, and business leaders.

• Communicate governance requirements clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Support data stewardship initiatives across business units.

• Build stakeholder cooperation while maintaining governance standards.

• Define and document governance KPIs and data quality metrics.

• Prepare progress reports for leadership.

• Support updates to the data governance roadmap.

• Identify opportunities to improve the use and value of organizational data.

• Support continuous improvement of data governance processes and practices.

• Experience in healthcare, public health, government, or another regulated environment.

• Experience with enterprise data governance frameworks.

• Knowledge of data privacy, classification, retention, and protection practices.

• Experience with data-sharing agreements and access governance.

• Experience with enterprise metadata management and data cataloging tools.

• Experience defining and monitoring data quality rules and metrics.

• Experience developing data literacy and stewardship programs.

• Experience creating governance KPIs and leadership reports.

• Knowledge of data governance standards and stewardship best practices.

• Experience supporting organizational change and governance adoption.

Location: Indianapolis, IN
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Interview: Webcam Only
Contract Duration: 11/02/2026 11/30/2027