Data Governance Analyst

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Data Governance Analyst based in United States. This is a fully remote opportunity to help shape data governance for a large-scale modernization program supporting federal courts nationwide. You will play a central role in establishing how data is defined, managed, protected, shared, and governed across complex environments. The position combines data governance, standards architecture, data quality, privacy, security, and compliance. You will collaborate with business, technical, legal, security, and data stakeholders to turn governance principles into practical processes and controls. Your work will strengthen data integrity, improve transparency, and enable more effective analytics and technology initiatives. The environment is highly collaborative, mission-focused, and centered on modern cloud-based data capabilities. This role offers the opportunity to influence governance maturity and build scalable practices within a major transformation program. Support the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the data governance framework, including policies, standards, procedures, operating models, and governance roadmaps. Act as a Data Standards Architect by defining and maintaining data standards, naming conventions, business definitions, structures, reference data, and governance requirements across systems and teams. Establish clear data ownership, stewardship, accountability, and decision-rights models, including RACI frameworks across business and technical stakeholders. Partner with data stewards, data owners, business teams, security, privacy, legal, records management, and engineering teams to operationalize governance requirements. Ensure data is appropriately classified and managed according to sensitivity, criticality, business value, privacy, security, retention, and regulatory requirements. Translate policies and regulatory obligations into actionable governance controls, procedures, and data management practices. Identify governance gaps, data risks, and compliance issues, coordinating remediation efforts and tracking progress through resolution. Support data access, sharing, usage, lifecycle, and privacy governance processes across the organization. Participate in governance councils, working groups, data domain forums, assessments, audits, and compliance reviews. Develop and maintain governance documentation, standards, procedures, decision logs, training materials, and other supporting artifacts. Monitor adoption and effectiveness of governance policies and standards, reporting program metrics, maturity, risks, and compliance status to leadership. Support data quality profiling, monitoring, and improvement initiatives, helping ensure reliable and consistent enterprise data. Contribute to maturity assessments, continuous improvement initiatives, and the evolution of the data governance operating model. Deliver training and awareness sessions that help stakeholders understand governance policies, standards, responsibilities, and regulatory expectations. Requirements: Master's degree in Information Systems or a related discipline with 5+ years of general experience and 7+ years of specialized experience, or equivalent relevant experience. Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise data governance programs and translating governance policies into practical operational processes. Strong understanding of data quality management, metadata practices, data stewardship, governance frameworks, and operating models. Experience defining and governing enterprise-wide data standards across multiple teams, systems, or delivery environments. Experience working with high-sensitivity, regulated, or otherwise tightly controlled data and implementing appropriate privacy and security practices. Practical experience with data quality profiling and monitoring techniques and common govern