Analyst, Data Governance

Posted 9 Days Ago
Jersey City, NJ, USA
In-Office
120K-130K Annually
Senior level
AdTech • Marketing Tech
The Role
Support and improve the organization's data governance and GRC program by defining standards, documenting metadata and lineage, enforcing PII and retention policies, training stakeholders, monitoring data quality and compliance (CCPA), coordinating with security and engineering, conducting risk assessments and audits, automating processes with scripts, and managing incidents via ITSM systems.
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Job Summary & Responsibilities

Strengthening and empowering all of the communities we serve.

This is a hybrid position based in Jersey City, New Jersey. The role requires working onsite at our Jersey City office two to three days per month, or more often as business needs require.

The Data Governance Analyst is a key contributor to the organization’s Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) program, ensuring robust data governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance across all data assets. This role supports the implementation and continuous improvement of data governance frameworks, risk controls, and compliance monitoring processes to safeguard sensitive information, enhance data quality, and ensure alignment with internal policies and external regulations. This role is essential in enabling data-driven decision-making as well as building and enforcing data governance standards. This role reports to the Director of Risk, Compliance & Support.

The base salary range is $120,000 to $130,000 per year.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Partner with business teams to define, document, and maintain data governance and quality procedures, translating standards into actionable controls and creating new standards where needed.
  • Will drive and coordinate data classification, dictionaries, metadata, and lineage documentation across all data assets to support discoverability, audit readiness, and risk mitigation. Partner with engineering on lineage tooling and keep documentation current as the environment evolves.
  • Define and enforce standards for PII handling and data retention across production, staging, and test environments, ensuring privacy obligations are met consistently and data is retained only as long as required.
  • Training and guidance to business stakeholders, data owners, and data stewards on data governance best practices.
  • Generating reports and dashboards to track governance performance, data quality, risk indicators, and compliance metrics.
  • Collaborate with Advance Cyber, Infrastructure Security, Data Engineering, and Enterprise Services to establish guidelines for user access, platform roles, table creation, integration connection, data exports, and AI/ML access based on data privacy considerations.
  • Support data quality initiatives including profiling, monitoring, and remediation across revenue and audience data.
  • In partnership with data owners and engineering, conduct systematic analysis of data assets to identify integrity issues, investigate root causes, and drive remediation.
  • Serve as the policy-layer owner for all data platforms, covering access patterns, data sharing, integration connections, and export controls, and partner with data engineering to ensure governance requirements are built into pipelines and models, not applied after the fact.
  • Ensure adherence to data privacy regulations such as CCPA and other U.S. state laws.
  • Liaise with Infrastructure, legal, and business teams to resolve governance issues.
  • Support data risk assessments and contribute to compliance audits.
  • Operate escalation procedures in the event of an incident.
  • Participate in monitoring, triaging, and resolving infrastructure security issues to ensure the stability and security of the company’s infrastructure.
  • Track governance performance, data quality metrics, and risk indicators, and partner with the broader engineering organization to ensure governance policy and infrastructure security are aligned; surface findings to data leadership. 
  • Develop and maintain scripts for automation to streamline processes and improve efficiency.
  • Utilize information technology service management (ITSM) ticketing systems and fulfillment platforms to efficiently manage and resolve service requests and incidents.

To be considered for this role, you should have:

  • Bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science or related field
  • Minimum 5 years’ experience in GRC, data governance, data management, or a related role
  • Experience leading and coordinating cross-discipline project teams
  • Excellent oral and written communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Proficiency in SQL and experience with data analysis and reporting tools
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Understanding of online privacy issues is a plus
  • Knowledge of media industry and digital audience analytics is a plus
  • Experience with metadata management and content classification tools is a plus

General office environment.  Extensive computer use required.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science or related field
  • Minimum 5 years' experience in GRC, data governance, data management, or a related role
  • Experience leading and coordinating cross-discipline project teams
  • Excellent oral and written communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Proficiency in SQL and experience with data analysis and reporting tools
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Understanding of online privacy issues (e.g., CCPA)
  • Knowledge of media industry and digital audience analytics
  • Experience with metadata management and content classification tools
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
372 Employees
Year Founded: 1992

What We Do

Advance Local, one of the largest media groups in the United States, operates the leading news and information companies in more than 20 cities, reaching more than 50 million people monthly with its quality journalism and community engagement.

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