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# Data Governance / Data Quality Analyst

- **Company:** Kforce Inc.
- **Location:** Tukwila, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Microsoft Azure, Data Dictionary, Data Governance, Data Mapping, Data Migration, Data Profiling, Metadata, Meta-Data Management, Freeform SQL, Informatica Powercenter, Snowflake, Data Management, Alteryx, Databricks
- **Published:** August 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.kforce.com/find-work/search-jobs/#/detail/MTY5Nn5XUUd-MjE4NTE2MlQxfjk5/

## About the Role

* Alteryx experience highly preferred
 * To be considered for this position, candidates must have experience in a similar role, or they must possess significant knowledge, experience, and abilities to successfully perform the responsibilities listed
 * Relevant education and/or training will be considered a plus

## Description

Kforce has a client in Tukwila, WA that is seeking Senior Data Governance & Data Quality Analyst to support enterprise data governance, data quality, stewardship, and emerging AI governance initiatives. This individual will partner with business stakeholders, data stewards, data owners, technology teams, and AI program leaders to improve data trust, establish governance controls, and enable responsible adoption of AI capabilities across the organization. This role requires a blend of business, governance, quality, and technical skills with the ability to translate business rules into governance controls, data quality metrics, and AI governance processes. Core Responsibilities:

 * Define and maintain business glossaries, data dictionaries, metadata, and critical data elements (CDEs)
 * Partner with data stewards and business owners to establish ownership, standards, and governance controls
 * Support governance frameworks, stewardship processes, data classifications, and metadata management
 * Document lineage, source-to-target mappings, and governance artifacts
 * Support governance councils and cross-functional governance initiatives
 * Perform data profiling, validation, and quality assessments across enterprise platforms
 * Create, document, and maintain data quality rules and monitoring processes
 * Develop data quality scorecards, dashboards, and metrics
 * Support root-cause analysis and remediation of data quality issues
 * Validate critical data elements and business rules across source and target systems
 * Execute advanced SQL queries for profiling, reconciliation, validation, and testing
 * Support source-to-target mapping validation activities
 * Work within Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, and Informatica environments
 * Analyze data movement patterns and assess lineage across enterprise systems
 * Support testing and validation activities for data migration, reporting, and analytics initiatives


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