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