Sr Analyst, Data Management (Data Governance)

Your Impact
The primary purpose of the Sr Analyst, Data Management is to drive proactive data governance across the enterprise in managing metadata, data quality, stewardship, classification, and privacy. This role works independently to execute the roadmap set by the leadership team and ensure other team members are also executing against it. Additionally, this role collaborates with stakeholders, cross-functional business teams, and IT teams to provide current, timely, and usable data by partnering with stakeholders and implementing efficient and effective data management practices. Finally, the Sr Analyst, Data Management is responsible for developing and maintaining the data steward capability, data catalog, data dictionary, business glossary, and lineage.
Work with a Winning Team
As part of a Fortune 500 company and retail leader, your work can change an entire industry. Our CEO is a forward-thinker when it comes to tech, and with one of Forbes Top 50 CIOs leading the charge, you can come to work knowing you'll have access to the data, tools, and support that few other companies can offer. We also know what it takes to create an inclusive culture that supports you. Our teams are structured around the engineer, giving you the support you need to do your best work. Since we've been in business for over 100 years, we've built an excellent track record of growth and success. There's peace of mind knowing you have the stability and resources you need to focus on solving tough challenges. And as you solve these challenges, know you'll be surrounded by supportive associates with curious minds who listen to you, respect you, and recognize your hard work.
Innovate in Charlotte
This position is based at our on-site at Lowe's Charlotte NC. Lowe's Tech Hub is an ultramodern work environment, complete with cutting-edge technology, collaborative workspaces, an on-site barista and Zen Garden, and other perks to enhance your work experience.
What You Will Do

• Develops, improves, and ensures compliance to data governance standards, policies, and procedures; continually reviews and recommends improvements to be more efficient or effective.
• Participates in the data governance on-call process ensuring our data governance customers receive timely responses to inquiries and ensuring the data governance certification brand is trusted. Ensure action it identified and taken where issues, or potential issues, are discovered.
• Supports the learning and discovery of data governance standards, processes, and technology by sharing best practices with others. Builds, maintains, and continuously improves data literacy training and communication materials by understanding industry trends, best practices, and technologies. Works to remove the need for institutional knowledge wherever possible with a cost-conscious mindset.
• Contributes to and executes the roadmap for enterprise data governance, bringing strong subject matter expertise and working through ambiguity and conflicting priorities where necessary.
• Collaborates closely with team members on the business and technology team on ongoing development of best practices surrounding data governance, data quality, and metadata to integrate practices successfully.
• Develops data profiling processes, leading to data quality analysis, recommendations, and clean-up. Works towards an enterprise view of data quality.
• Prepares and publishes data quality metrics to key stakeholders and data stewards to aid technical and business users in the understanding and remediation of data quality issues.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, computer science, engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience in lieu of degree)
• 4 years of experience in SQL, data management, or related area
• Experience actively implementing data management in a large organizational context

Preferred Skills/Education

• Data Governance experience with Amundsen or another data catalog, data lineage, data ingestion platforms, Kafka, Google Cloud Platform, Great Expectations or a data quality application, DSpace or another Business Glossary application, and data/product asset certification.
• Persistent, enterprise thinker with strong soft skills and needing little supervision to deliver results.
• Master's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience.

About Lowe's
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 500 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion, Lowe's operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.