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Growth Acceleration Partners

Data Governance

Full Time · In Office · USA

Posted Sep 17, 2026

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  • Professional Experience
  • 5+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Management, or related roles.
  • Proven hands-on experience supporting data governance execution in regulated environments (financial services, banking, insurance, or similar).
  • Experience working directly with business stakeholders to understand data needs, challenges, and priorities.
  • Key Responsibilities
  • Support the execution of data management and governance initiatives across multiple business functions.
  • Work directly with business stakeholders to understand current data landscapes, challenges, and needs.
  • Capture outcomes from stakeholder meetings and translate them into clear action plans and governance deliverables.
  • Identify and prioritize high-impact, low-complexity opportunities to deliver immediate value and demonstrate the tangible benefits of data governance to stakeholders.
  • Contribute to the enrichment and maintenance of the enterprise data catalog (definitions, ownership, metadata).
  • Help define, implement, and monitor data quality rules in collaboration with Data Quality and Engineering teams.
  • Support data lineage and metadata documentation efforts.
  • Help coordinate data governance activities across domains, ensuring follow-through and execution.
  • Document governance processes, decisions, definitions, and artifacts clearly and consistently.
  • Participate in business-facing sessions and working meetings, bridging business and data teams.
  • Support regulatory and audit-related data governance requirements through proper documentation and controls.
  • Required Technical Skills
  • Solid SQL skills to support data investigation, validation, and profiling (high priority).
  • Strong understanding of data governance concepts, data ownership, stewardship, and metadata.
  • Hands-on experience with data catalogs and lineage tools (Ataccama, Collibra, Alation, Informatica EDC, Azure Purview).
  • Familiarity with data quality concepts and collaboration with DQ teams.
  • Understanding of ETL/ELT processes and data pipelines.
  • Experience using Jira, ServiceNow, or similar tools to track governance tasks and issues.

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