Senior Data Governance Analyst

Job Description

At our company, we aspire to be the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company. We're at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions that advance the prevention and treatment of diseases in people and animals. As a Senior Data Governance Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality of metadata management, cataloguing, and data governance of our data across all domains, directly influencing patients who use our life-saving products. If you are passionate about data governance and cataloguing and want to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

Responsibilities

• Set up and maintain the Collibra Data Governance Centre (DGC) environment, including community and domain structure, views, diagrams, and dashboards.
• Implement metamodel changes through releases and facilitate ingestions from required source systems.
• Engage in tool maintenance and cleaning activities to ensure a positive user experience.
• Train and support Metadata Stewards and other divisional stakeholders.
• Provide ad-hoc demos to stakeholders to enhance understanding and usage of data governance tools.
• Create and maintain Collibra DGC and data governance-related documentation, best practices, and training materials.
• Conduct impact analyses for integrated systems and ensure compliance with cataloguing and best practices.
• Analyze new connector implementation requirements.
• Inform about new DGC Collibra functionalities and updates.
• Design and develop workflows to help stewards and users with their cataloguing journey.
• Manage business and technical metadata in Collibra to ensure accuracy, consistency, and accessibility.
• Design, implement, and manage metamodel to enhance metadata quality and standardization.
• Develop and maintain standards for data metadata quality metrics and monitor performance.
• Collect and analyze divisional and Chief Data and Analytics Office (CDAO) requirements for effective data governance and cataloguing application.
• Communicate with divisional and CDAO stakeholders to ensure alignment of data governance standards and cataloguing while focusing on user experience.
• Provide an implementation framework for cataloguing and data governance requirements and assign appropriate roles.

Qualifications

Required

• Proficiency in using Collibra Data Catalog for data governance activities. Knowledge of any data catalogue is a must-have (i.e. Collibra, Ataccama, Dawiso, Informatica, Alation etc.)
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in a data governance role.
• Expertise in Metadata management and implementing metadata cataloging processes.
• Proven experience in supporting the design and implementation of data governance frameworks, policies, and procedures.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including conducting training sessions and demos to senior management.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Applications, mainly Excel.
• Fluent in English both spoken and written.
• Team spirit and cooperative nature.

Nice to have

• Experience in developing and maintaining governance standards.
• Understanding of reference and master data management and governance.
• Advanced degree in a related field.
• Collibra Ranger Certification.
• Experience in Agile using JIRA.
• Experience in a research-intensive biopharmaceutical company.
• Knowledge of Groovy, SQL, HTML.

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Required Skills:

Data Management, Governance Management, Privacy Compliance, Quality Management, Technical Advice, Waterfall Model

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Job Posting End Date:

05/1/2026

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