Data Governance Analyst

2000 Sydney Ingrity

Job Description

Assist with the practical adoption of Data Governance across the business, extending our implementation and Data Governance Framework. The tech available includes Microsoft Purview, Varonis, Snowflake

The role bridges business and technology : engaging stakeholders to understand their data problems, translating those problems into actionable data initiatives, and demonstrating the value of Data Governance through better ownership, quality, trust and business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

- Extend Microsoft Purview, Varonis, Snowflake and drive adoption as the enterprise data governance and discovery capabilities.
- Evolve the Data Governance Framework documentation.
- Engage business stakeholders to uncover data issues and understand the business impact.
- Translate business problems into data outcomes , connecting issues such as inconsistent reporting or poor data quality to practical actions.
- At a high level discuss Data Governance in business language , focusing on better decisions, trusted reporting, efficiency and reduced risk.

What we're looking for:

- Data Engineering / Governance consulting experience.
- Experience with Microsoft Purview .
- Stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation skills.
- Ability to talk to business users about their problems without leading with technology .
- Ability to turn ambiguous business problems into outcomes.
- Knowledge of concepts around data ownership, stewardship, quality, metadata, lineage and business glossaries. They do not need to be experts
- Comfortable working across business, architecture, data and technology teams.

What success looks like:

The role should ultimately help make governance an enabler of business outcomes rather than an administrative exercise , supporting trusted data and better decisions.

- Branch and Division: Data Management and Reporting/ Data, Analytics and Reporting, Fair Trading Operations
- Location: Hybrid work with regular contact days in our Parramatta/CBD office
- Salary range: $133,348 - $146,945 (plus super)

Are you passionate about risk, data governance and assurance? NSW Fair Trading has an exciting ongoing opportunity, for a Senior Data Governance Analyst to join their Data Governance team, within the Regulatory Intelligence, Data Management and Reporting division of NSW Fair Trading Operations.





About the team

The Data Governance team is a highly motivated and friendly team committed to making a difference through meaningful work. Our team provides advice, guidance, and support to embed robust practices and ensure compliance with relevant Privacy, Data Governance and Records Management legislation and policy across NSW Fair Trading Operations.

In this role you will:

- Identify, interpret and analyse complex data, to provide meaningful insights and identification of trends/patterns
- Review and map existing practices, governance mechanisms and risk management to identify good practice and opportunities for improvement
- Assist in the development and implementation of data governance policies, standards, and processes.
- Ensure data quality, consistency, and security across the organisation.
- Monitor data governance metrics and report on compliance and performance

To be successful in this role you will demonstrate:

- Develop, deliver and evaluate a suite of projects, programs and initiatives applying best practice methodologies to support business outcomes within time, budget, policy, quality and project outcome parameters
- Contribute to and participate in the development and delivery of governance programs and customer priorities, ensuring work is delivered to a high-quality meeting organisational and government standards
- Contribute to accurate and relevant strategic plans, committee papers, briefings, and reports including analysis and recommendations on governance activities and initiatives to internal and external stakeholders to expected standards
- Maintain an understanding of customer priorities and challenges and contribute to the translation of them into measurable governance solutions and services to meet customer needs and organisational priorities
- Develop and maintain relationships with customers and stakeholders, influence outcomes, and develop awareness in trust in the team to support optimal service delivery




- Maintain awareness of relevant issues, policy obligations, insights, challenges industry trends and practices and opportunities to recommend cutting-edge solutions that optimise outcomes and contribute to a best practice governance function in line with organisational and government priorities
- Coordinate and implement a range of projects applying sound project management principles and support the project lead/s in the delivery of organisational and/or business projects
- A positive attitude, openness to feedback and professional development
- Develop governance improvement initiatives by providing and analysing information, including gap analysis, reporting and developing ‘what if’ scenarios.
- Appointment and ongoing assignment may be subject to restrictions and the satisfactory participation in mandatory pre-employment and ongoing probity screening, in accordance with relevant Legislation and/or related policies.
- Satisfactory criminal record check

Salary Grade 9/10, with the base salary for this role starting at 133,348 base plus superannuation

A talent pool may be created as part of this recruitment process and will be valid for up to 18 months. The talent pool may be used to fill future ongoing or temporary vacancies of the same or similar role.

Closing Date: Monday 9th November 2026 (11:59pm)

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