Data Governance Analyst

About this role

Data owns the pipelines, the warehouse and the definitions the business argues about — funnel conversion, time to hire, source quality.

Own what data we hold, where it lives, who may see it and how long we keep it — on a platform holding CVs and identity documents across several jurisdictions.

The hard part is not the pipeline; it is that two teams asking the same question must get the same answer. Most of the work is in the semantic layer and in being willing to say a number is not trustworthy yet.

Primary responsibilities

• Own the data catalogue — what data exists, who owns it, where it came from and what may be done with it
• Classify data by sensitivity and enforce the handling rules that follow, in systems rather than in a policy document
• Run the retention and deletion schedules, including the erasure requests that arrive under GDPR and the DPDP Act
• Manage access review — who can see what, and whether they still should
• Support privacy impact assessments for new processing, alongside legal and security

Skills required

Day to day this role works with Privacy, Data Governance, Cataloguing and Documentation.

• Three or more years in data governance or privacy operations
• Three or more years in data governance, privacy or compliance
• Data classification and cataloguing in practice
• Working knowledge of GDPR and India's DPDP Act as they apply to data handling
• Retention and deletion schedules, including erasure requests
• Access review and the ability to ask uncomfortable questions about who can see what