Senior Data Governance Analyst
Ameren St. Louis, Missouri, United States · $88K–$172K/yr
11-50 employees
About the role
Design and implement data governance and quality frameworks, including defining roles, responsibilities, and metadata models. Lead data protection reviews, establish stewardship programs, and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and business objectives.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires a bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, or business with at least 5 to 7 years of relevant experience. Candidates must demonstrate strong expertise in data governance projects, metadata management, and agile methodologies.
Benefits
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About Ameren Services (B&CS)
Ameren Services provides administrative support and services to Ameren Corporation and its operating companies, subsidiaries and affiliates. Ameren Services includes a wide range of skill sets and roles, from finance and legal experts to digital and cyber specialists, plus those charged with ensuring environmental compliance and operational safety. Together, we help execute a strategy that enables Ameren to deliver superior long-term value to customers, shareholders and the environment.
Our benefits include:
- Medical coverage on date of hire
- 100% employer paid cash balance pension plan
- 401(k) with company match fully vested on date of hire
- Minimum of 15 days paid vacation and 12 paid holidays
- Paid parental leave and family caregiver leave
Visit our Benefits & Perks Page for more information on benefits provided to regular full-time employees.
About The Position
- Design & implement the data governance & quality framework, operating model and roles & responsibilities.
- Drive the business understanding of the data flows and their dependencies and ensure that data quality and governance is a priority for the business
- Create and maintain functional Information Asset Registers and identify a community of Data Owners, Stewards and Custodians
- Maintain Data Standards and Policies and assuring that data standards / policies are being followed
Key responsibilities include:
- Define roles and responsibilities related to data governance and data quality, develop related processes and procedures, and establish a common understanding and visibility of all agency data assets.
- Establish the data stewardship program, including identification, maintenance, training and ongoing communication with data stewards
- Design & implement metadata model maps and lineage across data assets in the data governance project
- Design & implement the data quality standards, roles and metrics
- Design & implement the data governance process workflows
- Conduct requirement gathering, business analysis and any data architecture activities with the data governance & quality programs.
- Lead the review and sign-off of data protection language in all new contracts.
- Lead the data protection reviews for Technical Work Assessment and Operational Readiness Board reviews for new products/projects
- Participate in the data maturity assessment sessions and gap analysis.
- Participate in alignment with EA teams and data strategy across the organization.
- Coordinate with the project teams and others to ensure that data standards and models align with the overall enterprise architecture and applicable standards.
- Develop a strong working relationship with the appropriate business users and provide business-impact-driven analysis and communicate results to stakeholders.
- Understands the Digital organization’s objectives, and the impact on own projects; contributes to development of new data governance strategies
- Demonstrates strong working knowledge of agile software development processes and the development lifecycle; liaises with scrum masters and coaches to move projects forward
- Creation of specification documents for new data management requirements
- Maintaining Data Standards and Policies and assuring that data standards / policies are being followed
- Coaches less experienced co-workers and provides feedback to enhance skills and knowledge
Qualifications - Senior Data Governance Analyst
- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in mathematics, statistics, computer science or business
- 5+ years of relevant experience
Qualifications - Lead Data Governance Analyst
- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in mathematics, statistics, computer science or business
- 7+ years of relevant experience
In addition to the above qualifications, the successful candidate will demonstrate:
- Strong record of implementation for data governance & quality projects and establishing DGOs (Data Governance Office)
- Extensive experience developing detailed data governance workflows, operating models, and organizational structures.
- Strong experience in identifying and mapping Data Flows
- Extensive knowledge in data Governance & quality policies, standards, procedures, and metrics.
- Experienced in data maturity assessment models and methodologies.
- Expert in Meta-data management (Data Classifications, Glossary, and data lineage)
- Good understanding of data governance and data quality and metadata management tools like Informatica and Collibra
- Ability to organize and deliver trainings to the data governance established offices and client teams.
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of privacy laws and regulations.
- Strong understanding of agile and project methodologies and processes
- Great communication skills with the clients as a consultant and with the team as a coach and monitor.
Additional Information
Ameren’s selection process includes a series of interviews and may include a leadership assessment process. Specific details will be provided to qualified candidates.
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Compensation Range:
$88,500.00 - $172,200.00
* This pay range encompasses multiple levels of the role. Career level and compensation depends upon applicant’s credentials.
At Ameren, base salary is one component of a competitive compensation package for employees. Our pay ranges are broad to allow for movement within our organization and to accommodate different skill sets and levels of expertise. We take into consideration a variety of factors including, but not limited to, skills, abilities, experience, education, credentials, and internal equity when determining the base salary offered. Roles are eligible for additional rewards including annual incentive payments based on individual and company performance.
If end date is listed, the posting will come down at 12:00 am on that date:
Friday September 25, 2026
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, military service or status, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other class, trait, or status protected by law.