Job Description
We are seeking a Data Governance Analyst to join the Central Data and Analytics Office team in a critical role providing data governance support for commercial and medical affairs data domains. This role is crucial in ensuring the integrity, quality, security, and compliance of our data across all domains. If you are passionate about data governance and want to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.
Responsibilities
- Collect and analyze divisional requirements for effective data governance and cataloguing application.
- Communicate with divisional stakeholders to ensure alignment of data governance practices and cataloguing while focusing on user experience.
- Provide an implementation framework for cataloguing and data governance requirements aligned to data governance standards and assign appropriate roles.
- Set up and maintain the Collibra DGC environment, including community and domain structure, views, diagrams, and dashboards.
- Implement metamodel changes through releases and facilitate ingestions from required source systems.
- Engage in tool maintenance and cleaning activities to ensure positive user experience.
- Train and support Metadata Stewards and other divisional stakeholders.
- Provide ad-hoc demos to stakeholders to enhance understanding and usage of data governance tools.
- Create and maintain DGC and data governance-related documentation, best practices, and training materials.
- Conduct impact analyses for integrated systems and ensure compliance with cataloguing and best practices.
- Analyze new connector implementation requirements.
- Inform about new DGC Collibra functionalities and updates.
- Design workflows to help stewards and users with their cataloguing journey.
- Manage business and technical metadata in Collibra to ensure accuracy, consistency, and accessibility.
- Design, implement and manage metamodel to enhance metadata quality and standardization.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience in a data governance role.
- Proficiency in using Collibra Data Governance Centre for data governance activities.
- Expertise in Metadata management and implementing metadata cataloging processes.
- Proven experience in supporting the design and implementation of data governance frameworks, policies, and procedures.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including conducting training sessions and doing demos to senior management.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Applications, mainly Excel.
- Fluent in English both spoken and written.
- Team spirit and cooperative nature.
Preferred
- Understanding access management and experience in designing and developing attribute-based access controls.
- Understanding data quality management and experience in developing and maintaining standards.
- Understanding reference and master data management and governance.
- Advanced degree in a related field.
- Collibra Ranger Certification.
- Experience in Agile using JIRA.
- Experience in a research-intensive biopharmaceutical company.
- Proficiency in Groovy, SQL, HTML.
What we offer:
- Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment.
- Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally.
- Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern.
- Competitive salary & incentive pay.
- Pension and health insurance contributions.
- Internal reward system and referral scheme.
- 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution.
- Cafeteria for tax-free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card.
- Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and discount programmes.
- Up-to-date laptop and iPhone.
- Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner.
Ready to take up the challenge? Apply now! Know anybody who might be interested? Refer this job!
Required Skills:
Access Management, Attribute-Based Access Control, Collibra Data Governance, Computer Science, Data Governance, Data Management, Data Quality, Governance Management, Information Communication Technology (ICT), Medical Affairs, Metadata Management, Privacy Compliance, Quality Management, Stakeholder Communications, Stakeholder Engagement, Technical Advice, Waterfall Model
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06/20/2026
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