Data Governance Analyst (Remote)

Experian - Costa Mesa, CA

Full-time - Entry Level

Remote - Costa Mesa, CA

10,001+ employees

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Data Governance Analyst at Experian is responsible for supporting the implementation of data governance initiatives. This role involves classifying, organizing, and documenting data assets, reviewing product requirements, understanding data flow and architecture, and providing business definitions along with applicable data governance policies. The Analyst will also document best practices and lead adoption processes to ensure effective data governance across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Help develop and manage data glossaries and data owner matrices to establish enterprise data standards for using critical data.
• Provide, review, and update data definition and classifications, as well as applicable data governance policies of data assets.
• Identify and document data retention, data privacy, data security, and data access requirements.
• Assist in the development and implementation of data governance standards.
• Document business requirements for data governance policies, procedures, and activities.
• Help to design KPIs that gauge data governance success.
• Help identify and deploy data practices such as data scoping, metadata standardization, lineage, data deduplication, mapping and transformation, and business validations.
• Grow and enforce modern data documentation standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or similar discipline.
• 2+ years' experience as a Data or Business Analyst and experience implementing Data Governance projects.
• Experience in Microsoft Word and Excel.
• SQL experience is a plus.
• Experience with tools such as Confluence is a plus.

Benefits

• Great compensation package and bonus plan
• Core benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K
• Flexible work environment, ability to work remotely, hybrid or in-office
• Flexible time off, including volunteer time off, vacation, sick, and 12-paid holidays