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Senior Data Analyst ( Data Governance & Data quality)

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Key Responsibilities

  • Data Governance Strategy & Operating Model
    • Define and mature the enterprise data governance strategy, roadmap, and operating model for P&C insurance data domains (Claims and Legal).
    • Establish data ownership, data stewardship, governance councils, and decision forums across business and technology.
    • Drive governance adoption aligned with business outcomes such as underwriting accuracy, claims efficiency, regulatory reporting, and analytics enablement.
  • IDMC Platform
    • IDMC implementation and configuration including: 
      • Business Glossary and Data Dictionary
      • Data Catalog and Metadata Management
      • Data Lineage (technical and business)
      • Governance workflows and operating rules
      • Partner with engineering teams to integrate Collibra with cloud platforms, data lakes, analytics tools, and core insurance systems. 
      • Manage IDMC environments (Dev/Test/Prod) and promote best practices.
  • Metadata, Lineage & Discoverability
    • Ensure consistent documentation of critical data elements (CDEs) across P&C domains.
    • Enable end‑to‑end data lineage from core systems (Policy Admin, Claims, Billing) to downstream analytics and reporting platforms.
    • Improve data discoverability and self‑service analytics through standardized metadata and taxonomy. 
  • Data Quality & Issue Management
    • Define and monitor data quality KPIs (accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness).
    • Establish governance processes for data quality issue identification, triage, remediation, and tracking.
    • Work with IT and analytics teams to embed data quality controls into data pipelines and reporting workflows. 
  • Regulatory, Risk & Compliance Enablement
    • Support data governance requirements aligned with state insurance regulations, privacy laws, and internal risk controls.
    • Enable classification and governance of regulated and sensitive data used in underwriting, claims, and financial reporting.
    • Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Risk teams to ensure audit‑ready data practices.

Qualifications

  • Required Qualifications

    • 4-6 years of experience in data management, data governance, or enterprise data programs
    • 2+ years of hands‑on IDMC experience, including enterprise‑scale implementations
    • Strong Property & Casualty insurance domain expertise (Claims and Legal )
    • Deep knowledge of: Metadata management & data cataloging
    • Data stewardship models
    • Data lineage and traceability
    • Data quality governance
    • Proven ability to work across business, IT, data engineering, analytics, and compliance teams
    • Excellent stakeholder communication and executive‑level presentation skills. 

     

    Preferred / Nice to Have

    • Experience with additional governance tools such as Alation, Microsoft Purview, Informatica, or Apache Atlas
    • Exposure to cloud data platforms (Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks)
    • Familiarity with insurance regulatory reporting and data controls
    • Strong understanding of Data Quality frameworks, dimensions, and best practices.
    •  Experience in defining, implementing, and monitoring Data Quality rules, controls, and KPIs.
    • Ability to perform data profiling, root cause analysis, and data quality issue remediation.
    • Proficiency in writing and optimizing SQL queries for data analysis, validation, and troubleshooting.
    • Experience in performing data validation, reconciliation, and quality checks using SQL Server