Senior Data Governance Analyst

Job Description

Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company – one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us.

Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of an individual like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork. As part of our global team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.

Join us in the digital health revolution and tackle biggest opportunities and challenges at the intersection of healthcare, information and technology. Become a member of our IT Global Innovation Center in the heart of Prague with innovative atmosphere and flat, friendly and collaborative environment. Create awesome digital products and enjoy a reward that technology careers don’t often bring: the satisfaction of helping to save lives.

Join Data Governance team that is responsible for ongoing growth and support of our Data Governance initiative. The team focuses both on the delivery of data governance programs, adoption in our company and also on exploration of new capabilities.

As a Data Governance Analyst, you will play a pivotal role ensuring the quality of metadata management, cataloguing and data governance of our data across all domains, which will directly influence patients who use our life-saving products. You will be responsible for implementing data governance strategies and frameworks within the organization. This role involves gathering and analyzing project requirements, setting up and maintaining the Data Analytical Catalog (DAC) front end environment, and ensuring compliance with data governance best practices. The DGA collaborates closely with various teams, trains stakeholders, and participates in the implementation of new functionalities to support effective data management. If you are passionate about data governance and want to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

Your core 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 and assign appropriate roles

• Set up and maintain the Collibra DAC 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 DAC 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 DAC Collibra functionalities and updates

• Design and develop 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

• Develop and maintain standards for data quality metrics and monitor performance

You are ready if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience

• Hands-on professional who has been in the technology industry for minimum 5–8 years in a data governance role

• Proficiency in using Collibra Data Catalog for data governance activities

• Expertise in Metadata management and implementing metadata cataloging processes

• Experience with AI stewardship and Governance of AI models

• Proven experience in supporting the design and implementation of data governance frameworks, policies, and procedures

• Collibra Ranger Certification

• Experience in Collibra workflow development

• 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

Nice to have, but not essential:

• 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

• Experience in Agile using JIRA

• Experience in a research-intensive biopharmaceutical company

• Groovy, SQL, HTML

Our 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

• Pension and health insurance contributions

• Internal reward system plus referral program

• 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, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card

• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and Mall.cz discount programs

• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone

• Parking in the garage for drivers or showers for bikers

• Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

VISA Sponsorship:

Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

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Hazardous Material(s):

Required Skills:

Animal Vaccination, Animal Vaccination, Application Management, Business, Business Process Automation, Change Catalyst, Communication, Computer Science, Creativity, Customer Service, Data Engineering, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Quality Assessments, Data Visualization, DevOps Toolchain, Digital Healthcare, Disease Prevention, Information Communication Technology (ICT), IT Infrastructure Management, IT Innovation, Laboratory Automation, Management Process, Metadata Management, Server Hardware Configuration {+ 4 more}

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Job Posting End Date:

06/18/2025

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