Data Governance Analyst

Job Description

Strengthening and empowering all of the communities we serve.

This is a hybrid position in Jersey City, New Jersey. This role requires to be on location in our Jersey City office one to two days per week or more often as needed.

The Data Governance Analyst is a key contributor to the organization's Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) program, ensuring robust data governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance across all data assets. This role supports the implementation and continuous improvement of data governance frameworks, risk controls, and compliance monitoring processes to safeguard sensitive information, enhance data quality, and ensure alignment with internal policies and external regulations. This role is essential in enabling data-driven decision-making as well as building and enforcing data governance standards. This role also supports users in the operation of corporate systems in coordination with various teams to advance investigations into application problems. As a member of the Product Support Team, this role reports to the Director of Risk, Compliance & Support.

The base salary range is $120,000 to $130,000 per year.

What you'll be doing:

• Development, distribution, and implementation of data governance policies, standards, and procedures.

• Maintenance of data dictionaries, classification, metadata repositories, and lineage documentation to support discoverability, audit readiness, and risk mitigation.

• Training and guidance to business stakeholders, data owners, and data stewards on data governance best practices.

• Generating reports and dashboards to track governance performance, data quality, risk indicators, and compliance metrics.

• Establish guidelines for user access, platform roles, table creation, integration connection, data exports, and AI/ML access based on data privacy considerations.

• Support data quality initiatives including profiling, monitoring, and remediation across revenue and audience data.

• Ensure adherence to data privacy regulations such as GDPR, CCPA and other U.S. state laws.

• Liaise with Infrastructure, legal, and business teams to resolve governance issues.

• Support data risk assessments and contribute to compliance audits.

• Operate escalation procedures in the event of an incident.

• Troubleshoot, perform triage, and diagnose basic application issues to ensure smooth operation and minimize downtime.

• Participate in monitoring, triaging, and resolving infrastructure security issues to ensure the stability and security of the company's infrastructure.

• Develop and maintain scripts for automation to streamline processes and improve efficiency.

• Utilize information technology service management (ITSM) ticketing systems and fulfillment platforms to efficiently manage and resolve service requests and incidents.

To be considered for this role, you should have:

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science or related field

• Minimum 5 years' experience in GRC, data governance, data management, or a related role

• Experience leading and coordinating cross-discipline project teams

• Excellent oral and written communication and stakeholder management skills

• Proficiency in SQL and experience with data analysis and reporting tools

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

• Understanding of online privacy issues is a plus

• Knowledge of media industry and digital audience analytics is a plus

• Experience with metadata management and content classification tools is a plus

General office environment. Extensive computer use required.

Additional Information

Advance Local Media offers competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package with affordable options for your healthcare including medical, dental and vision plans, mental health support options, flexible spending accounts, fertility assistance, a competitive 401(k) plan to help plan for your future, generous paid time off, paid parental and caregiver leave and an employee assistance program to support your work/life balance, optional legal assistance, life insurance options, as well as flexible holidays to honor cultural diversity.

Advance Local Media is one of the largest media groups in the United States, which operates the leading news and information companies in more than 20 cities, reaching 52+ million people monthly with our quality, real-time journalism and community engagement. Our company is built upon the values of Integrity, Customer-first, Inclusiveness, Collaboration and Forward-looking. For more information about Advance Local, please visit www.advancelocal.com .

Advance Local Media includes MLive Media Group, Advance Ohio, Alabama Media Group, NJ Advance Media, Advance Media NY, MassLive Media, Oregonian Media Group, Staten Island Media Group, PA Media Group, ZeroSum, Headline Group, Adpearance, Advance Aviation, Advance Healthcare, Advance Education, Advance National Solutions, Advance Originals, Advance Recruitment, Advance Travel & Tourism, BookingsCloud, Cloud Theory, Fox Dealer, Hoot Interactive, Search Optics, Subtext.

Advance Local Media is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected under federal, state or local law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact Human Resources and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Advance Local Media does not provide sponsorship for work visas or employment authorization in the United States. Only candidates who are legally authorized to work in the U.S. will be considered for this position.