
Principal Business Analyst (Data Governance)
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop and implement data governance policies, procedures, and standards in collaboration with IT, legal, compliance, and domain teams.
- Ensure execution and monitoring of data standards, ensuring compliance with regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.
- Manage and maintain data catalogs, data dictionaries, lineage records, and governance processes within Data Governance tools.
- Create and present executive-level governance reports, metrics tracking, and process maps for stakeholders.
- Streamline data governance workflows by conducting workshops on data classification, access, ownership, and end-to-end data management.
- Provide training and mentorship to teams on governance policies
- Create Executive level presentation for Data Governance Network meeting to provide governance updates and Data Domain workshops to align on key design decisions.
- Collaborate with leadership and stakeholders to align metadata management and governance processes with organizational objectives.
- Evaluate and recommend tools and technologies to enhance business process efficiency and data governance effectiveness.
- Monitor and resolve governance-related issues while providing ongoing support to sustain improvements.
- 8+ years of experience in business process analysis, process improvement, or related roles.
- Strong expertise in process modeling, mapping, mining, and analysis techniques
- Ability to create effective presentations to streamline and communicate complex governance processes and collaboration to work across departments to gain alignment
- Experience working with metadata management, data catalogs and data lineage.
- Leadership in policy creation and execution.
- Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to lead complex initiatives
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage with both technical and business stakeholders effectively
- Experience with business process management and process mining software (e.g., Symbio, Celonis, or similar tools).
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Experience mentoring others
- Experience working on an Agile / Scrum team a plus
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred)
- Certification in Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt or Green Belt) and/or Business Process Management (BPM)
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies and their application to process improvement
- Experience in domains such as sales, marketing, product development, HR, supply chain, and manufacturing a plus