Data Governance Analyst

Continental Properties is hiring a Data Governance Analyst to support its Data Management team in keeping company data governed and trustworthy. The role facilitates data stewardship, monitors data quality and governance health, and maintains the data catalog, business glossary, and lineage.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the domain-based data stewardship model, supporting steward decisions on metric definitions, field ownership, and data quality standards as new data and use cases emerge
• Monitor data quality and governance health, triaging exceptions and trends on an ongoing basis
• Maintain and expand the data catalog, ensuring new datasets, tables, and fields are documented with clear ownership, descriptions, and classifications
• Build and continuously curate the business glossary, working with stakeholders to define and standardize new business terms and metrics as they emerge
• Document and validate data lineage across ingestion, transformation, and reporting layers, keeping lineage current as pipelines and models change

Requirements:

• 2-4 years in data governance, data management, business intelligence, or a closely related analytical role
• Hands-on experience with at least one area of governance work: data cataloging, business glossary/definitions, data lineage, or data stewardship
• Working knowledge of relational databases and how data moves through modern data pipelines (ingestion, transformation, reporting)
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical data concepts for non-technical business stakeholders and influence without authority
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership of initiatives, and drive them to completion with minimal oversight
• Comfort working cross-functionally with engineering, analytics, and business teams
• Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred