Data Governance Analyst

Job Overview

PenFed is hiring a (Hybrid) Data Governance Analyst at our Tysons, Virginia location. The primary objective of this role is to analyze and mitigate risks within PenFed's Enterprise Data Governance (EDG) program. This position handles the day-to-day administration of the company's data governance tools and performs complex analyses. Results from these analyses will drive program enhancements, resolve data management issues, and optimize functionalities. Additionally, this role tracks incident & enhancement requests and regularly interacts with Data Management, Data Owners, and Data Stewards throughout the company.

Preference will be given to candidates authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties, and the position will perform other duties as assigned.

• Act as 2nd Line of Defense (LoD) by providing effective challenge to 1st LoD Data Owners and Data Stewards

• Develop data quality metrics and thresholds (e.g. KRIs) in partnership with the 1st LoD.

• Track 1st LoD data management incidents and findings (including root causes) and oversee remediation plans.

• Identify and assess data risks, design test procedures, and perform independent controls testing.

• Monitor and communicate changes to data regulations impacting PenFed's data governance program.

• Extract data from Ataccama to support program monitoring, system operations, and downstream reporting.

• Maintain technical documentation for PenFed's data governance components and functionalities.

• Stay informed of data governance best practices and how they may be incorporated into current processes.

• Champion data governance and data literacy at PenFed.

Qualifications

Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.

• Bachelor's degree in business, Information Technology or related field required.

• Master's Degree is highly desirable.

• Minimum of three (3) years of related work experience required.

• Must be proficient with data governance concepts including policy, business glossary, data classification and data quality.

• Must be proficient administering data governance systems such as Ataccama and with data management tools such as Snowflake, SQL, Excel, Tableau.

• Must be proficient extracting data from data governance systems using tools such as Ataccama's One Desktop.

• Beneficial to have ability to work with large data sets, databases such as Snowflake and combining data from various data sources to generate reports and analytics.

• Must be conversant with credit union business.

• MS Word Suite

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills required.

• Experience using AI tools preferred.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position will not supervise employees.

Licenses and Certifications

There are no licenses or certifications needed for this role.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an indoor office setting with moderate noise.

Most roles require working in an office setting with moderate noise and the ability to lift 25 pounds.

Travel

Limited travel to various worksites is required.

Pay Transparency

The anticipated starting salary range for this role is $60,000.00 - $ 124,233.00

This position is eligible for an organizational performance based annual bonus, subject to board discretion and approval.

This position is eligible for an individual performance based annual bonus.

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Benefits

At PenFed, we offer a robust benefits package designed to support you both personally and professionally. You'll have access to comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans; paid time off; and family-friendly benefits like paid parental leave, care support, and fitness center access. Financial wellness is encouraged through features like a 401(k) match, employee loan discounts, and fully paid life and disability coverage. We also support growth via education assistance, community involvement, and volunteer opportunities.

Our Purpose

Helping members achieve their dreams since 1935. Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed) is one of America's largest federal credit unions, serving 2.8 million members worldwide with $29 billion in assets. PenFed offers market-leading certificates, checking and savings, credit cards, personal loans, mortgages, auto loans, and a wide range of other financial services, always with members' interests in mind. PenFed is federally insured by the NCUA and is an Equal Housing Lender.

Equal Employment Opportunity

PenFed management will maintain and observe personnel policies which will not discriminate or permit harassment or retaliation against a person because of race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, military or veteran status or obligation, the presence of a physical and/or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, and all statuses protected by applicable state or local law in all recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, overtime, position classifications, work assignments, facilities, promotions, transfers, employee treatment, and in all other terms and conditions of employment. PenFed will also prohibit retaliation against individuals for raising a complaint of discrimination or harassment or participating in an investigation of same. PenFed will also reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability so that they can apply for a job or perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace and the threat cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation or if the accommodation creates an undue hardship to PenFed. Contact human resources (HR) with any questions or requests for accommodation at [email protected] .