Business Process & Governance Engineer

Role Description

Partners across the enterprise to build and strengthen governance capabilities across data, information, and emerging AI programs — translating ambiguous needs into practical processes, documentation, and tools.

Why This Role Exists:

• We're growing our governance function across multiple programs — Data Governance, Information Governance, and AI Governance.
• This role offers the chance to strengthen what's working and shape what's still being defined, moving between programs as priorities shift.

Job Summary:

• Partners across business, IT, privacy, security, and other units to build and strengthen governance capabilities.
• Takes direction and runs with it, translating ambiguous or evolving needs into practical processes, documentation, and tools with minimal day-to-day oversight.

Position Duties:

• Design and implement governance processes, workflows, and documentation for programs across a range of maturity.
• Translate business needs into practical frameworks, tools, and training materials.
• Partner with stakeholders across technical and non-technical audiences to drive adoption.
• Operate with significant autonomy — identify gaps, propose solutions, and execute without a predefined playbook.
• Flex across programs as priorities shift, applying the same core skill set to different levels of ambiguity and structure.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in business process, governance, compliance, IT business analysis, or a related field.
• Bachelor's degree preferred (any field); higher education experience as a student or employee is a plus.
• Equivalent professional experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

Requirements

• Quickly grasps governance, policy, or regulatory requirements and translates them into clear processes, documentation, guides, and stakeholder conversations.
• Comfortable building structure from ambiguity; doesn't wait to be told what to do.
• Strong process design, documentation, and analytical skills.
• Skilled communicator who adapts across technical and executive audiences.
• Self-directed, results-oriented, adaptable to shifting priorities.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in higher education or another complex, decentralized institutional environment.
• Exposure to governance, compliance, or risk-related work (data, information, or AI).