Universal Music Group · 3 months ago
Data Governance Analyst
Santa Monica, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$90K/yr - $115K/yr
3+ years expUniversal Music Group is the world’s leading music company, committed to artistry and innovation. They are seeking a Data Governance Analyst to establish and maintain data management best practices and support audit compliance objectives across the organization.
Audio Recording and ProductionMedia and EntertainmentMusicPublishing
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
Facilitating the development of data catalogs and promoting the use of standardized data definitions and glossaries
Maintaining and enforcing the data governance frameworks, guidelines, and publications across the organization. (Including drafting policies, standards, and runbooks.)
Must be comfortable facilitating workshops, and discovery sessions involving stakeholders across multiple disciplines
Develop and publish data governance user friendly training materials to promote data literacy across the organization
Apply creative problem-solving skills to data governance efforts and identifies alternative solutions where needed
Qualification
Required
3 minimum years of direct experience in data governance and/or data management roles
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
Create compelling data visualizations, dashboards, and reports using tools like Looker a plus
Experience with other Google Cloud Platform services (e.g., Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, Composer/Airflow) a plus
Person must be flexible, with an ability to work in an independent, proactive manner, as well as part of a team
Bachelor's Degree minimum education in Computer Science, Information Management, Data Science, or related field, or equivalent experience
Preferred
Experience in the Music Industry or entertainment industry a plus
Benefits
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA options, as well as:
+ 100% coverage for out-patient mental health services
+ Wellbeing reimbursements for fitness classes, spa treatments, meal services, travel, and so much more (up to $720/year)
+ A lifetime fertility support allowance of $30,000 to plan participants
+ Student Loan Repayment Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement
+ 100% immediately vested 401(k) match on the first 5% of your contribution on eligible compensation
Variety of ways to prioritize much-needed time away from work including:
+ Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) for exempt employees
+ 3-weeks PTO for non-exempt employees
+ 2-weeks paid Winter Break
+ 10 Company Holidays (including Juneteenth and Wellbeing Day)
+ Summer Fridays (between Memorial Day and Labor Day)
+ Generous paid parental leave for every type of parent
Company
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group is a music-based entertainment company that offers music recording, publishing, and merchandising services worldwide. It is a sub-organization of Leviy Publishing.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.65BKey Investors
William AckmanTencent
2023-06-06Post Ipo Debt· $802.31M
2021-09-21IPO
2021-06-21Secondary Market· $4.17B
Leadership Team
Devraj Sanyal
Chairman & CEO, Universal Music Group, India & South Asia; SVP Strategy "AMEA"
Timothy Xu
Chairman and CEO
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