Data Governance & Enablement Analyst: II
Posted 2026-05-06
Remote, USA
Full-time
Immediate Start
Data Governance Enablement Analyst (Atlan)
Fully Remote
Duration: 1 year
- Key ResponsibilitiesAtlan Platform Enablement & Configuration
- Configure & administer Atlan assets: datasets, tables, dashboards, metrics, & glossary terms
- Design & maintain business glossaries, taxonomies, domains, & critical data elements (CDEs)
- Configure ownership model: (E.g., Executive Owner, Business Owner, Technical Owner, Steward)
- Implement certifications, tags, classifications, & trust indicators to support analytics confidence
- Enable stewardship workflows, issue tracking, announcements, and policy attestations within Atlan
- Metadata, Lineage & Discovery
- Coordinate automated metadata ingestion from modern data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, BI tools)
- Validate and curate end-to-end lineage across ingestion, transformation, and reporting layers
- Partner with data engineering to resolve lineage gaps and improve metadata completeness
- Support column-level context for sensitive, regulated, or business-critical data
- Stewardship & Adoption Enablement
- Serve as a primary point of contact for business data stewards and analytics users
- Lead enablement sessions, office hours, and workshops to drive adoption of Atlan
- Translate business concepts into governed data assets and standardized definitions
- Support stewardship operating rhythms (reviews, certifications, issue triage)
- Data Quality & Governance Context
- Attach data quality context, known issues, and remediation status to governed assets
- Partner with data quality teams to surface rules, monitors, and scorecards in Atlan
- Enable issue logging, tracking, and stewardship escalation workflows
- Integration & Automation
- Use Atlan APIs & lightweight scripting to automate metadata enrichment and workflow actions
- Integrate Atlan with downstream systems (e.g., Jira, ServiceNow, BI tools, SSO/RBAC)
- Support governance-by-design patterns embedded into analytics and engineering workflows
- Required Qualifications
- 3 to 5 years of experience in data governance, data enablement, analytics enablement, or data operations
- Hands-on experience configuring or administering Atlan (or similar platforms such as Collibra, Alation, Informatica)
- Strong understanding of modern data stacks (cloud data warehouses/lakehouses, BI tools)
- Practical experience with business glossaries, metadata, lineage, and stewardship models
- Ability to work directly with both business and technical stakeholders
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting Databricks, Snowflake, Power BI, SSRS, Tableau, or Looker
- Familiarity with data quality, privacy, or regulatory concepts (PII, PHI, NPI, HIPAA, GLBA, etc.)
- Exposure to APIs, SQL, Python, or metadata automation
- Experience supporting enterprise data governance frameworks (CDMC, DMBOK, internal standards)