Overview
Data Governance Analyst Jobs in Doha, Qatar at malomatia
Job Description
Required Skills &
Competencies:
- Working knowledge of core data governance concepts, including ownership, stewardship, data definitions, metadata, standards, and data quality
- Practical familiarity with data catalog, business glossary, metadata repository, or data dictionary concepts
- Hands‑on experience maintaining structured documentation, registers, trackers, and governance artifacts
- Ability to capture and organize business terms, data definitions, data owners, data stewards, data domains, and related governance attributes
- Working knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, Confluence, Jira, or similar collaboration and documentation tools
- Basic working knowledge of data quality, data lineage, data classification, and data lifecycle concepts
- Ability to support workshops, interviews, and validation sessions with business and technical stakeholders
- Strong written communication skills for meeting notes, governance summaries, issue logs, and structured documentation
- Ability to follow defined governance methods, templates, naming standards, and documentation rules
- Good stakeholder coordination and follow‑up skills
- Ability to identify missing, inconsistent, unclear, or conflicting governance information
- Basic analytical thinking and ability to connect business language with data concepts
Responsibilities
- Support the implementation and maintenance of data governance practices
- Maintain data ownership, stewardship, data domain, and business glossary documentation
- Capture and organize metadata, business definitions, data rules, and governance attributes
- Support the development and maintenance of data governance policies, standards, procedures, and guidance documents
- Maintain governance trackers, issue logs, decision logs, action logs, and stakeholder follow‑up records
- Support interviews, workshops, working groups, and governance discussions
- Document meeting outcomes, decisions, risks, actions, and unresolved questions
- Support data governance reporting, status packs, dashboards, and presentation materials
- Assist in identifying gaps in ownership, definitions, metadata, standards, and governance adoption
- Coordinate with business users and technical teams to validate data definitions, ownership, and governance information
- Support adoption of data catalog, metadata, glossary, or governance tools
- Support data quality, privacy, compliance, and analytics teams with governance‑related documentation
- Prepare clean, structured, and reusable governance materials for handover and ongoing use
- Escalate unclear ownership, conflicting definitions, missing information, or unresolved actions to the Data Governance Specialist
The Data Governance Analyst is a practical execution role. The role is not expected to design the full governance strategy independently, but it is essential for making governance information accurate, organized, maintained, and usable.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, Management Information Systems, Information Management, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Engineering, or a related discipline
- Arabic and English are mandatory
- 2–4+ years of experience in data governance, business analysis, data analysis, metadata management, reporting, data quality, compliance support, documentation, or transformation initiatives
- Experience supporting workshops, maintaining structured documentation, managing trackers, and coordinating with business and technical stakeholders is preferred
Relevant Certifications Preferred Certifications Include
- DAMA CDMP Associate
- DAMA Data Management Fundamentals training
- Collibra, Informatica, Alation, Microsoft Purview, or equivalent data catalog / governance platform certification
- ECBA, CCBA, or equivalent business analysis certification where relevant
- Foundation-level privacy, data protection, or compliance certification where relevant
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Title: Data Governance Analyst
Company: malomatia
Location: Doha, Qatar
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