Universal Music Group is seeking an experienced Data Governance Analyst to establish and maintain the organization's data management best practices, acting as a bridge between business needs and technical solutions to ensure data is used effectively and responsibly across the organization. This role will support Data Governance operations, drive audit compliance objectives, and manage data management disciplines across UMG's ecosystems.
Requirements
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and BigQuery's data governance features.
- Advanced hands-on SQL skills, particularly with BigQuery-specific syntax and functions.
- Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) concepts.
- Must be familiar with Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) Access models (or similar).
- Demonstrable experience in creating and managing data governance artifacts.
- Experience with governance technologies such as Google Dataplex or similar Catalogs.
- Experience with other Google Cloud Platform services (e.g., Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, Composer/Airflow) a plus.
Responsibilities
- Create, institutionalize, and promote data management best practices with other data citizens in multiple business units and departments throughout Universal Music Group.
- Leverage BigQuery's built-in data governance features and integrate with other Google Cloud services like Dataplex for comprehensive data governance across diverse data sources.
- Conduct our user access reviews (UARs), and audit individuals' access rights are appropriate for their roles.
- Work with stakeholders to manage datasets, remove duplicate access and cleanup individual access memberships.
- Recommend and enable a specific Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy across our organization’s Google Cloud projects.
- Act as the liaison and executor, ensuring the data owner's policy decisions are properly implemented for the specific datasets.
- This role is responsible for updating critical data identification, tagging, and data lineage.
Other
- 3 minimum years of direct experience in data governance and/or data management roles.
- Create compelling data visualizations, dashboards, and reports using tools like Looker a plus.
- Person must be flexible, with an ability to work in an independent, proactive manner, as well as part of a team.
- Experience in the Music Industry or entertainment industry a plus.
- Must be comfortable facilitating workshops, and discovery sessions involving stakeholders across multiple disciplines.
