EXL

Data Governance Lead Analyst

EXL

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $160,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Lead discovery and assessment of existing Data Governance operating models, identifying gaps and improvement opportunities.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to business, technology, compliance, and data leadership stakeholders.
  • Facilitate governance workshops, working sessions, and steering committee meetings.
  • Develop and present Data Governance business cases, including value realization, risk reduction, and regulatory alignment.
  • Support presales activities, including solution design, proposals, and client demos.
  • Lead end-to-end implementation of Data Governance, Metadata, Lineage, and Data Quality capabilities.
  • Design and operationalize Operating Data Models for Governance, Quality, and MDM.
  • Oversee configuration and rollout of governance platforms such as Collibra, Informatica EDC/Axon, Alation, Attacama, and Erwin.
  • Define governance standards, policies, stewardship workflows, and operating procedures.
  • Guide testing, validation, and production readiness of governance solutions.
  • Embed governance controls to support AI and analytics pipelines, including traceability, explainability, and auditability.
  • Enable AI-assisted metadata enrichment, classification, and intelligent lineage discovery.
  • Collaborate with AI, Data Science, and Engineering teams to integrate governance into Agentic AI workflows (e.g., policy-as-code, automated stewardship, governance agents).

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 8–12 plus years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, or Data Quality roles.
  • Proven experience leading client-facing governance programs.
  • Consulting or professional services background preferred.
  • Willingness to travel for client engagements.
  • Strong experience in Data Governance operating model design and implementation.
  • Hands-on experience with governance tools such as Collibra, Informatica EDC/Axon, Alation, Erwin, Attacama.
  • Expertise in metadata management, business glossary, lineage, stewardship, and data quality.
  • Experience with data exploration and analysis using SQL/MySQL.
  • Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills.
  • Experience leading small to mid-sized teams in complex client environments.
  • Experience supporting AI and Agentic AI governance use cases preferred.
  • Exposure to regulated industries (Insurance, Healthcare, Banking, Privacy, AI regulations).
Benefits
  • Other rewards may include bonuses
  • Paid Time Off policy
  • Many region-specific benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
Data GovernanceData ManagementData QualityMetadata ManagementBusiness GlossaryLineageStewardshipSQLAI GovernanceOperating Model Design
Soft Skills
Stakeholder ManagementFacilitationCommunicationLeadershipClient EngagementTeam ManagementAdvisory SkillsWorkshop FacilitationProblem SolvingCollaboration