Data Governance Analyst

Toronto ON

Contract

The Data Governance Analyst is part of the Enterprise Data Governance Team at Canada Life and plays an essential role the advancement of our data strategy and maintenance of existing Data Governance Practices. This role provides the opportunity to balance enablement of our business with the governance of our data assets to ensure the trust and protection of the data in our care.
The successful candidate will join a skilled team of like-minded colleagues who are naturally curious, collaborative and strive to make sense of our data, protect it and work to enable the business to advance their data roadmaps.

What you will do
• Support the development, maintenance, and enhancement our data governance policy, standards, processes, and practices.
• Support the implementation and adoption of data governance across the enterprise
• Work with technology and business users to ensure our data is understood and reflected in our Data Inventory to enable people to find what they need when they need it.
• Support requirement definition and analysis as we build out our Connected Data Platform, connecting people to the data they need.
• Identify opportunities to improve effectiveness of the data governance organization with focus on operational efficiency and collaboration
• Provide front line support to our data community and translate complex topics into simple and effective statements that have impact
• Support strategic decisions, issues, risks, and milestones related to data initiatives
What you will bring
• 1-4 years of applied data governance experience
• Strong organizational Skills
• Expert in Microsoft products (PowerPoint and Excel)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Agile, practical, customer service-oriented mindset (doesn’t over complicate processes)
• Passionately curious and excited to learn new things
• Ability to work in a fast paced highly focused team
• Experience in financial services and insurance is an asset
• Data certification in Data Management or Data Governance an asset (e.g. DGSP or CDMP)
• Working knowledge of data governance and management technology an asset (e.g. Collibra, Microsoft Purview)

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Any specific tools/skillset:
• Understanding of data governance principals.
• Attention to detail.
• Time management
• Handling ambiguous information.
• Analyzing and problem solving,
• Metadata analysis and tagging
• Microsoft products excel, Purview and using minimal SQL coding via Databricks to assist with developing regular expressions.
• Utilizing Collibra or other data governance toolset
• Ability to communicate technical details to a business user.
• Monitoring and testing functionalities and environments
Role profile description: Using Microsoft Purview Data Catalog Portal, work with the team to create a POC that aligns to the metadata strategy and establishing the cataloging/business glossary, tagging, metadata, necessary to meet the standard by working with the business stakeholders.
• Cataloging activities include,
o reviewing applied classifications to a data element within Purview Data Catalog,
o apply sensitivity labels to a data element or data asset to adhere to Canada Life’s Data Policy, Information classification and handling standard, and Privacy guidelines.
o Align the data elements to Canada Life’s Information Model for personal information.
o Expansion of business glossary in publication
• Tagging
o Sensitivity levels as applicable Privacy guidelines, (example, Personal information sensitivity)
o Data classification as applicable by Information
o Data elements criticality
• Metadata
o Technical metadata
o Business metadata

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