Data Governance Analyst - DG​/County Administration

Job Description

The Data Governance Analyst will be directly supporting the County’s management of data as an enterprise asset. The position will be serving as a subject matter expect in developing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise-wide data governance practices that improve data quality, promote, trust and transparency, while enabling informed decision making. This is a newly created position within the Office of Strategic Management & Budget and will serve as a lead and subject matter expert in building an enterprise data governance framework.

• Overseeing standards and processes while supporting compliance, protect sensitive information and, ensuring responsible stewardship of public data
• Ensuring the accuracy, consistency and security of all data and appropriately accessible internal use and public reporting
• Promoting data as a County asset by helping develop, maintain and improve the County’s data governance framework
• Partnering with departmental data stewards, technical teams, and leadership to promote consistent practices for data ownership, accountability, access and use
• Monitoring data quality and integrity across systems, identifies gaps and risks, and recommends improvements to strengthen reliability, consistency and compliance
• Supporting appropriate access to data for employees, decision makers, and the public, ensuring compliance with public records requirements, privacy laws and information security standards
• Supporting open data initiatives by ensuring public datasets are accurate, timely, well documented and appropriate for release
• Maintaining metadata repositories, data dictionaries, data inventories, and governance documentation to improve understanding, usability, and transparency of County data
• Providing guidance, training, and support to departmental staff on data governance, stewardship and responsible data use
• Developing and maintaining governance performance measures and reports, including data quality indicators, compliance status., and open data usage
• Helping evaluating and prioritizing data governance issues and tracking progress towards data governance maturity goals, recommending improvements over time

• Facilitating internal meetings, workshops, and discussions to advance data governance and data analytics initiatives
• Preparing and delivering presentations to inform leadership, internal stakeholders, and employees of initiative progress, key metrics and framework efforts
• Serving as a subject matter expert and liaison between the Data & Analytics team, County leadership, and other County departments and offices.

• The Grade is 104.Salary will be dependent on education and experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in public administration, information systems, data analytics, statistics or business administration
• Five years of Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Purview, or similar data management or data governance tools
  • An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above will also be considered.

• Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)
• Certified Analytics Professional (CAP)